Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads (www.vice.com)

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Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, has officially endorsed Twitter over Facebook-owned competitor Threads.

“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. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn't have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”

Twitter has fallen out of favor with many people since Elon Musk took over the company last year...The Taliban, however, seems to love it. Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.

Haqqani noted that the biggest draw of Twitter was this lax moderation policy...Facebook and TikTok both view the Taliban as a terrorist organization and disallow them from posting. It’s a ban that persists to this day.

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[-] Trollmittens@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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"

[-] Willer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Talibussy

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty funny to see a member of the Taliban espouse freedom of speech. I really doubt that

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Freedom from consequence for me but not for thee

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is not a good look. The Taliban supporting something is never good.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's the Taliban, the appropriate action is to ignore everything they say because they're religious extremists who commit violent actions against random citizens of their own and other nations.

I they said Twitter was bad and endorsed Threads would you still give a shit? lol

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

A handful of years ago, US Republicans were losing their shit over Muslims and the Taliban, basically saying they were the biggest threat. I'm honestly waiting for them to realize that their views are almost completely aligned with the Taliban's. Both against abortion and LGBTQ rights, both want religion in schools and to get rid of the separation of church and state, etc. It doesn't at all surprise me that Republicans and the Taliban have the same preferred social media.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's because they're both authoritarians.

It's the same reason Tankies hate Nazi's when they're both essentially the same thing in practice despite their economic outlooks being opposite. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, everything else is just a different flavor.

Christian authoritarians think they're good and muslim's sharia law bad, but in reality they're just two religions trying to force their shit on everyone else. They physically cannot see that it's the same because to them it's "morally correct" and therefore not authoritarianism.

[-] jray4559@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] SoLongThx4TheFish@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

They are governing Afghanistan, why wouldn't they have a Twitter?

Plus, even ISIS used Twitter (and maybe still does?). It's a good propaganda tool.

[-] K0W4LSK1@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol the leader of the taliban looks like a French designer

[-] TheTechNerd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January"

I am dead

[-] Aesecakes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This ruins my analogy of Meta federating with Activity Pub being like the Taliban promising to be good guys this time round.

[-] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Do they also drink Wolf Cola?

[-] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff

[-] 10tec@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I'm new to Lemmy and have my account on Aussie.zone. Do I need to register an account on the lemmy.world instance for that link to work? I'm using the Connect app on Android if that helps.

[-] johnnyjayjay@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, your app should be able to send you there by clicking that ID. If it isn't, then that's likely a feature that is still being implemented (it's the equivalent to r/subreddit on Reddit).

Btw in case you haven't noticed, you're already commenting on a Post from lemmy.world, so no, you don't need a separate account.

[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Twitter: The terrorist's choice.

[-] UpperBroccoli@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?

...not that I'd expect the answer to differ.

[-] GewoehnlicherHamster@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twittler?

[-] Grimlo9ic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

What a fucking glowing recommendation and endorsement from an absolutely reputable organization. /s

On the other hand, I feel for those engineers at Twitter. Yeah they are choosing to stay, but one, for those of them who really believe in Twitter as a tool, it's not so easy to leave it behind all because corporate leadership is acting dumb, and two, even though Twitter still looks great on a resume, switching jobs is not as easy as stopping to go work for one place on one day and starting in another the next.

[-] Trebach@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I have a feeling almost everyone left is on an H-1B visa so if they quit, they'll be deported

[-] SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

Am i wrong to think this sounds similar to slavery?

[-] Sauvandu59@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

if they really want freedom of speech, then they should use gab.com

[-] nikscha@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Wow. This place is ridiculous.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I bet a quarter of the users are FBI agents. We need more "safe" spaces for this. Rather have all the right-wing terrorists in one spot instead of scattered to the wind.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Hahahaha this is genuinely HILARIOUS.

Thank you, I needed that.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Twitter had been like that even before Elon tho. Let's not also forget Facebook is fine and dandy with ISIS and other extremist groups

[-] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That should be a good thing in your view tho, no? Aren't you the one defending the presence of extremists into online platforms? Shouldn't Facebook and Twitter allow and even put under the spotlight these kind of ideologies?

Fuck it man, go for a full racist party then; why limit yourself to institutionalised racism when you can have ignorant racism directly?

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We have that already with the left and the right. Have you been living under a rock last 30 years?

[-] FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I am aware the only openly racist party being allowed on social media is the alt-right (the institutionalised right on the other hand is still clever enough to keep its racism hidden behind a façade of economics bullshit).

Pray tell, which extremist left wing organisation have been supporting twitter, threads or any other social media platform?

And since you are there, can you please explain how can you post a message without using your brain?

[-] xuxebiko@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I bet facebook/ meta paid them to endorse the birdsite.

[-] StarServal@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I’m sure you’re probably joking, but in case you weren’t, that would set Meta up for some federal crime type of trouble.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Good thing businesses don’t regularly break laws and just pay a relatively small fee in order to continue doing business. /s

Snark aside, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerfuck could afford to either just pay the fines or bribe public officials to letting this happen.

[-] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I remember back around 2012-2013 ISIS using twitter to post gore videos and twitter was lazy asf about dealing with it

[-] 50gp@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

social media sites give 0 fucks about properly moderating anything but popular euro languages

[-] SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean?

[-] MadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀

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