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congress has called on twitter to block the taliban
senators want to stop scenes which posted insurgent attacks on nato forces
in afghanistan
and aids for joe lieberman who's chair of the senate homeland security
committee said the move was part of a wider attempt to eliminate violent
islamist extremist propaganda from the internet and social media
the uh... there are a number of different twitter feed including eight
bol ki b a l k h ite
which is about forty one hundred followers and alomar a web
which is over sixty two hundred followers which regularly tweet about
deaths of cowardly invaders and puppet afghan uh...
government forces
and they also according to some exaggerate a lot of these claims are
even does make the mop to make it seem like there's a lot of violence being
done on nato forces
and uh... of course this is the very controversial because is it
what is the twitter policy and that's what should it be and what we're hearing
so far is that the taliban is actually not listed
as day
foreign terrorist organization with the state department so therefore
twitter doesn't really have any kind of formal reason why they should applies
these requests what's your thought
all coming from a legal standpoint that's that's what it comes down to
write
and of course critters own
uh...
laws rules right that uh... how they self-regulate the taliban spokesperson
for frequently spars with nato press offices on twitter as well they
challenge in regard each other's taped statements
and twitter is not saying whether joe lieberman's office asked them too
new block the feeds
from these purported taliban members the question is
is
hates of free speech or is it simply
blocking hate speech right and hal micromanage well how how
to what microbiology twitter be involved in individual can some statistics
if it's not listed by the state department
justice you have to let you just have to allowing unless they're breaking some
other terms and conditions established by breadwinner that's an easy way to
take the heat off of twitter
what the same time is this a good thing can we maybe track down some of these
people based on
the i_p_o_ dresses that they're posting from running couldn't this print having
these people so actively posting
in a public way actually be used to the advantage of a of of uh... the united
states
i'm sure it is
but at the same time this is
incredibly can be incredibly harmful stuff i mean we know how many people are
influenced by
by the website span out that i have been the things they read john to the point
where
they become terrorists ever try to carry out things in this country
i don't know the stuff because clearly blocking it is uh...
is messing with uh... your right free speech more the counter-argument some
people are sending me is this is an indication of
the the americans favor free speech only when the speech suits them
and when it speech that they don't like and then i think the free speech anymore
but this is not really an issue of free speech
i mean i guess that there's actually two there's a couple of of real questions
here the other is
is there a difference if that
if those accounts are blocked in the u_s_ versus if those people are ticked
off twitter altogether
and i think it's different sets of rules i'm not sure where i fall on this one
but my instinct would be
that if there is no you have to have a set dive line because joe lieberman asks
you to do this
that's another reason to do it you have to be able to say these are a guidelines
if it's the state department list of foreign terrorist organizations that's
what it is
uh... you know it
so it's up to the government i mean for
they could just as easily be up to two hundred what remember in two thousand
eight google agreed to tightness rules for hosting videos on youtube after joe
lieberman conf complain that they were hosting videos
from alcohol yet and other terrorist movements
shelling attacks on american forces in iraq
and google
based on whatever
barometer they had
they're they're going to be doing that
it just relieved that the problem i would have within purchased at the whims
of joel lieberman or any individual elected official that's what it can't be
there needs to be some kind of set guidelines
the does and
i mean when you get down to it how is what's being said here any different
from some crazy white supremacist saying that probe amish should be assassinated
and things like that to the question today blocked
that will never happen well it i think it depends on if uh... if the the
standard is are they listed as a as a terrorist organization right then you
would say well
are there
so i guess it all those come down to
what the state department labels as a terrorist organization if you decide
that's going to be a stand right