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Is Twitter Aiding and Abetting Terrorism?

Posted by timothy on from the xerox-is-next-and-then-faber-castell dept.

wiredmikey writes with word (and the following extract from a CNN report) that "Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to Twitter on Thursday asserting that the company is violating U.S. law by allowing groups such as Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab to use its popular online network. ... In her letter, Darshan-Leitner noted that Hezbollah and al-Shabaab are officially designated as terrorist organizations under U.S. law. She also cited a 2010 Supreme Court case — Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project — which upheld a key provision of the Patriot Act prohibiting material support to groups designated as terrorist outfits."

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  1. Is the air aiding and abetting terrorism? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Terrorists use the air to transmit sound messages.

  2. Re:I tell you this: by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "We in Israel really MUST insist that you Americans institute a censorship regime!"

    That has to be the single most amusing phrase ever to appear unironically in the Paper of Record: Twitter terrorism. And, of course, the authority cited for this menacing trend is that ubiquitous sham community calling itself âoeterrorism experts,â

    http://www.salon.com/2011/12/20/the_u_s_government_targets_twitter_terrorism/singleton/?mobile.html

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
  3. Re:Don't Laugh! I was stopped by the RCMP and aske by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I was helping my mother-in-law fill out the application for a US visa, and there's a hilarious section of questions of the form: Have you sold any children into sex slavery? Are you a Nazi? Have you forcibly harvested anybody's organs to sell on the black market? I'm sure the number of slave-trading kidney-stealing Nazis they catch makes up for completely wasting my (and hundreds of thousands of other people's) time.

  4. Re:Don't Laugh! I was stopped by the RCMP and aske by _merlin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There actually is a reason for that part of the green form. It's so that if they dig up any of those things in your past, they can say you've committed a crime on US soil (signing a false declaration). They can prosecute or deport you for committing this crime in the US, while they may not be able to do anything about something you did in the dim past on another continent.