"Other platforms cannot replace it," said a senior member of the Taliban in a tweet, explaining that Meta is "intolerant."

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.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • StarServal@kbin.social
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      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
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        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.

    • Shardikprime@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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.worldEnglish
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        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?

          • FabioTheNewOrder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            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?

  • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
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    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.

  • LexiconDexicon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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