Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads
Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads
"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.
This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff
“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.
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.
I'm speechless at how ludicrous this headline is. I feel like even the Onion would reject it for being too bonkers.
I mean, total clickbait article but hilarious nontheless.
if they really want freedom of speech, then they should use gab.com
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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. 😼
Twitter: owned by Saudi Arabia, endorsed by the Taliban. Great new tagline!
Do they also drink Wolf Cola?
Why endorse a social media app? What kind of war are they fighting
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"
"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
Have the Taliban considered self hosting a Mastodon instance?
Zuck flying to Kabul for urgent talks over this critical endorsement deal
Wow. When you've lost the Talaban who do you have, really?
Talibussy
Pure comedy. Twitter vs threads has been extremely entertaining
Anyone remember the movie Middle Men (2009), a film based on Christopher Mallick's experience running an internet billing company that managed payments for paid porn sites? The film bombed at the box office, but there was one scene of interest which, in relevance to Haqqani's complaining is a good reminder as to why his complains about Meta are a moot point considering what happens to terrorists who use the internet. (Might be a little NSFW)
From "free speech absolutist" to "free speech extremist" 😃
Lol the leader of the taliban looks like a French designer
I'm not sure this is the kind of endorsement I would want.
This just reinforces my opinion of the Taliban as been jerks.
So the alt-right and nazis flock to threads and the taliban endorse twitter. It just seems like losers all around.
This is like the always sunny episode where Boko Haram endorses Wolf Cola.
I'm confident that the Taliban would never endorse me and I like it that way.
“We like any place where the leader declares cisgender to be a slur.”
“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.”
I.. am out of words...
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.
"Twitter, if it's good enough for the Taliban, it's good enough for you."
What a glowing review!
No idea why people are still buying Teslas when the Taliban are literally a fan of the CEO.
This ruins my analogy of Meta federating with Activity Pub being like the Taliban promising to be good guys this time round.
Why not get those quirky Taliban guys over to America for a Twitter ad campaign, Elon. He could probably throw in a tour of Space X launch site or the Tesla car factory in Texas? (Just keep all the female employees out of sight, shh, mums the word...)
"I can't believe Meta would do this to us! Is it wrong for us to be a patriarchial homophobic anti-Christian, anti-Jewish group online without having someone tell us we can't be our true authentic selves? How dare Mark Zuckerberg do this to us! At least Elon will let us be who we are. Now if you excuse me, I have to to let the leopards at the Kabul Zoo eat my face." --Taliban Senior Leader
I'm not their fan but I hope facebook can leverage this on their marketing.
Great news. I was waiting to hear what they thought about it...
The Taliban is now concerned about the freedom of speech. What does the general population of the world even understand what the freedom of speech actually is? This is ridiculous and stupid. Twitter is not a benevolent corporation that selflessly grants freedom of speech to its users. If you want to speak freely and feel free to do so, find a media outlet that will publish your words without restriction. When will this idiocy end? We are free to speak. How many people hear you speak depends on where you put your speech. Idiots.
Okay but, like, here's the ultimate test of best friendship, Anas:
Coke or Pepsi?
"The Taliban prefers Twitter over Threads. So I've got that going for me, which is nice." - Elon Musk, probably.
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