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.
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
Because facts disrupt their intended narrative. 🤡 🙄
You forgot the quotation marks. It’s “Freedom of Speech.” ;)
It’s not THE freedom of speech, it’s Elon’s freedom of speech. As in, he’s free to choose what’s shared on the platform he forcibly acquired.
Freedom of speech for Muslim men and not women or infidels.
Freedom of their speech
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Camelot?
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The Taliban should spin up their own Mastodon instance.
Just wanna remind everyone that Mastodon also has a code of conduct, just like Lemmy does. The Taliban are explicitly not welcome on Mastodon as a platform. Nobody’s gonna be able to stop them short of defederating, but just thought I’d share this.
The Fediverse doesn’t want violence. So Taliban are not welcome.
“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 only person who has true freedom of speech on Twitter is Elon Musk. If he doesn’t like something you say (for example apparently he doesn’t like the term ‘Cisgender’), he can ban you
See also: The CIA award for excellence in journalism.
It is freedom of speech for themselves.
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”.
Twitter: The terrorist’s choice.
The slogan of the century.
Wow. When you’ve lost the Talaban who do you have, really?
I mean, total clickbait article but hilarious nontheless.
Lol the leader of the taliban looks like a French designer
This ruins my analogy of Meta federating with Activity Pub being like the Taliban promising to be good guys this time round.
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?
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.
Terrorists like Elon Musk. That seems like his plan.
I remember back around 2012-2013 ISIS using twitter to post gore videos and twitter was lazy asf about dealing with it
I always figured Twitter was working with the US government by keeping those accounts open, helping them track location and whatnot.
Probably.
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.
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The Internet is a mistake.
I’m speechless at how ludicrous this headline is. I feel like even the Onion would reject it for being too bonkers.
