Isis threatens Twitter employees over blocked accounts

[Bosonic]

Source: The Guardian

Isis supporters have threatened Twitter employees, including co-founder Jack Dorsey specifically, with death over the social network’s practice of blocking accounts associated with the group.

In an Arabic post uploaded to the image-sharing site JustPaste.it, the group told Twitter that “your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you”. It warned that Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees have “become a target for the soldiers of the Caliphate and supporters scattered among your midst!”

“You started this failed war … We told you from the beginning it’s not your war, but you didn’t get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.”

Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban “direct, specific threats of violence against others”, and the company has followed YouTube in proactively shutting down Isis-related Twitter accounts, with the aid of the UK’s counter-terrorism internet referral unit.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/02/isis-threatens-twitter-employees-over-blocked-accounts-jack-dorsey

[KeepItReal]

1. ISIL should rightly be kicked off Twitter and YouTube

whenever content and accounts are found on their behalf.

[Renew Deal]

2. I just read the same message in ATA.

[ladjf]

3. They flatter themselves by characterizing their killers as "lions".

If they were "lions" they wouldn't feel the need to wear masks and disguise in public.

[randome]

4. They're going to behead Twitter now?

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[Fred Sanders]

5. ISIS is exactly as fearsome and powerful as American mass media wants the masses to think they are.

Remember Ebola?

Remember Iraq?

Remember the last snowstorms?

[840high]

6. You jest.

[Fred Sanders]

8. When ISIS took over Mosul a year ago, how fearsome were they? After they lost Kobani?

They were less fearsome a year ago, before 6000 Airstrikes and the Kurds mobilized, not to mention Iran, but not near as media savvy.

Then former members of the Iraqi army psych-ops now with ISIS got to work...and found a willing victim in Western "fear media"....they sure hit the mark.

Like Ebola, like Iraq, half the story is what is being told, zero history to put it all in context.

Folks are still not thinking the mass media is reliable, are they?

[Historic NY]

7. Isn't it time to switch off their internet access...

isn't that what the NSA switch was for.

[Fred Sanders]

9. When American websites, like Fox, embedd ISIS propaganda videos...American websites can not be so

easily turned off. America values freedom of speech too much to turn any off, foreign or domestic, friend or foe.

[Panich52]

10. We like to think of freedom of speech as sacrosanct. But it isn't. Nor should it necessarily be.

While SCOTUS has decided swearing in public is covered by 1st Amend, yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater is not. The reason: public safety.

While I like to believe no one should be censored, civil society cries for 'hateful, disruptive...' outbursts to be muffled. ISIS' propaganda certainly may fall into that category. Fox aided their cause by not editing their vids. (But they do pander to tge purient. I suppose they'd like TX to air executions.)

ISIS has a right to be heard, but not necessarily on everything. A blanket censorship is, for me, going too far. But that assunes that they can express their view without inciting violence. By their nature, is that possible? (ISIS isn't the only mid-East group Twitter blocks: I've tried posting from an Irani media org and not been successful -- and they were an opposition group.)

BTW, mid-East volitile rants aren't all that should probably be muffled. Extremist RW 'Christians' here also incite violence on their sites. While the net shouldn't be subjected to censorship, law enforcement should have better tools to prosecute rants whose intention is to incite violence. Unfortunately, providing those tools leads to that damn slippery slope.

Bottom line: it's up to responsible outlets to monitor what they carry. While a blanket block seems overreaching, it's playing it safe.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Fox made the message clear - that even ISIS deserves to be heard...yes, they did.

Free speech must include any and all Hate Speech, no matter the source...???

I disagree.

I draw the line at ISIS.

[KeepItReal]

12. You'd think so. I'd trust Anonymous to do that before any alphabet organization.

Heck, even a local news station managed to shut down a major ISIL Twitter propagandist.

What are the US Intelligence Agencies tasked with doing about ISIL's online activities?

[Fred Sanders]

13. Should ISIL produced media be banned from re-broadcast by any domestic media? Made a criminal act in this time of

war?

[Independent Navy Vet]

14. Isis and the Bush family.

Isis wouldn't even exist if Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Every thing in the middle east is directly Bush and Cheney's fault. The US wouldn't even be there if it wasn't for oil.