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Yes? Are you afraid they can defeat you with tweets? The risk of normalizing suppressing speech is greater than the risk of terrorism.

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Scirra_Tom 9y ago
I'm afraid allowing terrorists a free platform to preach will influence people and normalise what they are doing and be a detriment to wider society.
jameskegel 9y ago
I'd argue we should let them post what they want and monitor them as they freely associate with their cohorts and note the patterns/relationships. This seems like such an obvious answer that I can only assume that I'm either way off, or this is some type of marketing to engender some type of patriotism response among those not yet signed up or active on Twitter.
- mosaiclifestyle 9y ago
  There have no doubt been scores of security analysts doing this for years, but I'd imagine that this can only go so deep, as I doubt they're openly scheming on Twitter. It does however provide a window into some of their recruitment behavior, as these types of outlets are the easiest places to lure vulnerable or impressionable people into deeper, darker corners of their propaganda networks. But I have to imagine that if you were to shut off their ability to lure people there in the first place it would do more to fight them than watching and following them.
alexasmyths 9y ago
'The pen is mightier than the sword'. The tweets are valuable propaganda to ISIS. They are consumed by billions of young impressionable minds all over the world, inducing them to 'take up the cause'. ISIS does not have the right to 'free speech'. Stopping ISIS from spreading their selfie vids of how they burned people alive and 'You can too!' - is not controversial.
- i_cant_speel 9y ago
  Unbelievably, it looks like it is controversial.
  - MrZongle2 9y ago
    Censoring terrorist groups isn't controversial. The vague, shifting notion of what constitutes "terrorism" and how that definition may be abused in the future, is. Consider, if you will, what a modern-day Sedition Act of 1918 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 ) would look like.
- WillPostForFood 9y ago
  If posting murder vids and torture photos is an effective recruiting tool in your country, you country has problems it needs to address. Banning the tweets is attaching the symptom, not the cancer.
  - alexasmyths 9y ago
    Banning the Tweets makes a big difference, so we do it.

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Scirra_Tom 9y ago

I'm afraid allowing terrorists a free platform to preach will influence people and normalise what they are doing and be a detriment to wider society.

jameskegel 9y ago

I'd argue we should let them post what they want and monitor them as they freely associate with their cohorts and note the patterns/relationships. This seems like such an obvious answer that I can only assume that I'm either way off, or this is some type of marketing to engender some type of patriotism response among those not yet signed up or active on Twitter.

mosaiclifestyle 9y ago
There have no doubt been scores of security analysts doing this for years, but I'd imagine that this can only go so deep, as I doubt they're openly scheming on Twitter. It does however provide a window into some of their recruitment behavior, as these types of outlets are the easiest places to lure vulnerable or impressionable people into deeper, darker corners of their propaganda networks. But I have to imagine that if you were to shut off their ability to lure people there in the first place it would do more to fight them than watching and following them.

alexasmyths 9y ago

'The pen is mightier than the sword'. The tweets are valuable propaganda to ISIS. They are consumed by billions of young impressionable minds all over the world, inducing them to 'take up the cause'. ISIS does not have the right to 'free speech'. Stopping ISIS from spreading their selfie vids of how they burned people alive and 'You can too!' - is not controversial.

i_cant_speel 9y ago
Unbelievably, it looks like it is controversial.
- MrZongle2 9y ago
  Censoring terrorist groups isn't controversial. The vague, shifting notion of what constitutes "terrorism" and how that definition may be abused in the future, is. Consider, if you will, what a modern-day Sedition Act of 1918 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918 ) would look like.
WillPostForFood 9y ago
If posting murder vids and torture photos is an effective recruiting tool in your country, you country has problems it needs to address. Banning the tweets is attaching the symptom, not the cancer.
- alexasmyths 9y ago
  Banning the Tweets makes a big difference, so we do it.