Pretty funny to see a member of the Taliban espouse freedom of speech. I really doubt that
It's just like Elons definition. To these people freedom of speech means freedom to say what they want and not be challenged by pesky things like facts.
Freedom from consequence for me but not for thee
Freedom of their speech
This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff
Sweet. Thank you for the link! Is there an ate the onion community out there yet?
“Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms,” Haqqani said in an English post on Twitter. “The first privilege is the freedom of speech.
I know it's the Taliban but I cannot believe how braindead they are. They don't even remember that they're so anti free speech, they'll hunt down and kill dissidents especially women who have the guts to get an education.
The taliban and Musk share the same values, then - to both of them, free speech means "you can say anything, as long as its what I like".
See also: The CIA award for excellence in journalism.
I remember back around 2012-2013 ISIS using twitter to post gore videos and twitter was lazy asf about dealing with it
social media sites give 0 fucks about properly moderating anything but popular euro languages
At the time Facebook fueled a genocide in Myanmar they had practically no moderation for Burmese content, if I recall correctly.
"Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January"
I am dead
But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?
...not that I'd expect the answer to differ.
Twittler?
Terrorists like Elon Musk. That seems like his plan.
Not that this changes anything but it's worth noting that the Taliban were provided a platform on Twitter even before they took power and before even Elon acquired it.
Right now Facebook is also full of hate-speech by Islamists who circumvent hate-speech filters by writing in Arabic or Parsi, as Meta's AI in those languages is a complete failure, very biased as it's trained on hateful content already as laws in those countries favor hate-speech (as an example, in Saudi Arabia being an atheist is considered "terrorism" and in most MENA countries homophobic content is normal) and moderators are sourced locally and hence also very biased.
There's a disturbing trend of big tech being comfortable hosting extremists and borderline terrorist spokespeople. And my unpopular guess is that it is obviously because the US wants the Taliban and other Islamist groups to be legitimized. Why? I'm not sure, geopolitics is totally above my pay grade. But it is clear that historically the US had no issues siding with hardcore Islamists in the MENA region and right now there is a clear trend to normalize Islamist propaganda online.
Reminder that the Taliban are still preventing girls from going to school since they took over, despite a certain president assuring us that the US isn't abandoning Afghan women and that the Taliban have "changed" anyway, and they cracked down on female university students too.
They're okay with it because it looks good for the bean counters and KPIs. There's no KPI for "we removed hate speech visibility by 50%" but there is one for "we got 50 million new users from MENA on our platform to show ads to."
Oh good. I’m glad to hear this. It seems as though the Christian and Muslim extremists approve of twitter. I know exactly where I won’t be going.
I mean, total clickbait article but hilarious nontheless.
I'm speechless at how ludicrous this headline is. I feel like even the Onion would reject it for being too bonkers.
This may seem surprising, but Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO before elongated muskrat had a history of supporting isis views from his old tweets (there was a whole news article on it that has sadly been deleted). Really twitter CEOs have been fucked up politically since the beginning.
This is so sad that it's fucking hilarious. Now we have social media competing for the fucking worst human beings on the planet to join their platform. It just goes to show how being an evil asshole is profitable. 😼
Do they also drink Wolf Cola?
Twitter: owned by Saudi Arabia, endorsed by the Taliban. Great new tagline!
Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.
I'm surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn't they want to be underground?
So I read threads google play store reviews and most of them are bots. I think meta is using bots to hype threads downloads and stupid media might have taken money from zuck to post the news. Influencers and celebrities are definitely paid to use threads and the sheeps follow.
The Talliban accusing a company (Meta) of having intolerant policies is perhaps the most insanely hypocritical thing I've heard. I love it! "They don't tolerate our intolerance"
Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.
Isn't it illegal to take money from terrorist organizations?
Wow. When you've lost the Talaban who do you have, really?
"Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.” -- if your brain shutdown at this point as well, I'd like to welcome you to... if your brain shutdown at this point as well
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
