Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day (softpedia.com)

BarbaraHudson writes: Softpedia is reporting that Anonymous, along with social media users, have identified several thousand Twitter accounts allegedly linked to ISIS members. "Besides scanning for ISIS Twitter accounts themselves, the hacking group has also opened access to the [takedown operation] site to those interested. Anyone who comes across ISIS social media accounts can easily search the database and report any new terrorists and supporters. The website is called #opIceISIS [slow right now, but it does load] and will index ISIS members based on their real name, location, picture, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts." Anonymous crowdsourcing their operations... welcome to the brave new world, ISIS. An article at The Independent reminds everyone that this information has not been independently confirmed, and that Anonymous is certainly capable of misidentifying people. It's also worth exploring the question of why Twitter hasn't already disabled these accounts, and why intelligence agencies haven't done anything about them, if they're so easy to find.

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Re:what good will this do ?

[fustakrakich]

Yes, imagine if YOU had to buy a new burner phone AND tell everyone your new phone number, every day, because somebody doesn't like you, or just a whim. Sorry, it ain't cool. It's censorship. It's tyrannical. And it's chickenshit.

If you want to get serious about this "ISIS" thing, replace your weapons bazaars with weapons embargoes. Twitter doesn't enable ISIS, your banks (the same ones caught laundering money for the cartels) and tax dollars do, in a very literal sense. What do we call them? Oh yeah, moderate rebels... sheesh!