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ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions

Posted by samzenpus on from the dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out dept.

Patrick O'Neill writes After a wave of account bannings that marks Twitter's most aggressive move ever against ISIS, new images circulated from militants shows founder Jack Dorsey in crosshairs with the caption "Twitter, you started this war." The famously tech-savy ISIS has met a number of defeats on American-built social media recently with sites like Twitter and YouTube banning the group's efforts in unprecedented numbers.

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  1. Re:Last straw? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Finally, someone uses their brain. Sure, we could send a big army over there and stomp them into the ground. But then what?

    And if anyone thinks Saddam's dead-enders were a big headache, what do you suppose a bunch of religious zealots will be?

    Cue Mencken on problems and solutions.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  2. Re:I don't think Obama is really paying attention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As someone who has a lot of business interests in the Middle East and especially Jordan I think that you will find that the Jordanians hate what ISIS/IS/??? are doing.
    They might have some internal tribal rivalries but they are united in wanting to keep their relatively liberal society out of the hands of the likes of IS/ISIS.

    There is also a lot of belief that if IS attaches Jordan then Israel will see that as a direct threat to them and join in to fight alongside the Anti-IS fighters.
    My friends in Kuwait are divided about 'would this be a good thing or not?'.
    On one hand Yes because Israel are helping the Liberal Muslims fight the extremists
    On the other hand, No because this is a conflict that is mostly Muslim on Muslim.

    If you are commenting from the relative safety of the US then until you have lived and travelled around the Region as I have for the past 20+ years you can't even begin to understand how complex it is in terms of relationships etc.

  3. Re:Bombs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if he just dropped money, and the terrorists bought TVs and sat around getting high on all that good hash, watching cartoons, instead of terrorizing.

    A thought just occurred to me. It seems to me we may have been going at this all wrong. We keep on dropping bombs on them and they keep going more batshit insane with rage. What would happen if instead we started a black market to funnel liquor, cocaine, meth, and heroine into ISIS controlled territory? If we got their soldiers more interested in getting high and/or drunk would this effectively crush their will to fight?