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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because they are a theocratic despotic thugcracy that is why their only export is refugees and opium.

And why don't you answer my question? Would you approve of the women in your family being sent there? Yes or no.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does not wanting my family (or myself - not sure why you made it sexist) to live there at all relevant?

If you want the world to declare unilateral war on authoritarian despot nations I'm all for that, but as I recall that view seems to be "Imperialist."

How do you square these feelings in your head?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Answer the question.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wasn't the person you asked, but I am in favor of everyone who wants to escape any authoritarian state to be able to leave.

In fact, I am for the free movement of people as a natural right, coupled with absolute open borders, defended with military force by a coalition of world governments.

I am strongly anti-authoritarian. I just don't see how it is Facebook's responsibility to effect change in hostile nation-states.