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Anyone can explain this? >"The attraction for jihadists of these platforms is that the developers of these decentralised platforms have no way of acting agains

Anyone can explain this? >"The attraction for jihadists of these platforms is that the developers of these decentralised platforms have no way of acting against content that is stored on user-operated servers or content that's shared across a dispersed network of users, " BBC Monitoring senior jihadi specialist Mina Al-Lami said.

totetsu 6y ago
Sounds like the people producing and distributing this media are using self hosted and decentralised social network platforms. The people making these platforms release them for free for anyone to use as the like, so they can't stop jihadists. It doesn't say what they're using, but I doubt it is federated with any non-extremist networks. It's basically an article confused by the fact that most people have been hypnotized into forgetting that anyone can run any software they like on a computer and network it to another computer, without some platform having control over what they do.
- zimpenfish 6y ago
  > release them for free for anyone to use as the like, so they can't stop jihadists "Lads, lads, the license says Jihadists can't use this?" "Oh, nuts, ok, onto the next one, Malcolm."
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  FTP servers are terrorist enabler tools.
newyorker2 6y ago
To add to the other commenter's point, an example could be a mastadon instance.
IIAOPSW 6y ago
Fear mongering over the fact that anyone with a desktop can still run a server on the internet. Law enforcement / the establishment would much prefer for centralized, US based cloud services (re: AWS) to be the only way to host something online, as companies can be deputized at any time via court order. The ideal scenario (from their point of view) is something like in China where every website has to have an internet license from the government and a public official has an office on the inside of every major company. When China does it we decry tencent as an arm of the CCP. When America does it we look the other way because no one wants to be seen defending "terrorism". Never mind that the "terrorism" in this case is a separatist group that hasn't been relevant since last year.

totetsu 6y ago

Sounds like the people producing and distributing this media are using self hosted and decentralised social network platforms. The people making these platforms release them for free for anyone to use as the like, so they can't stop jihadists. It doesn't say what they're using, but I doubt it is federated with any non-extremist networks. It's basically an article confused by the fact that most people have been hypnotized into forgetting that anyone can run any software they like on a computer and network it to another computer, without some platform having control over what they do.

zimpenfish 6y ago
> release them for free for anyone to use as the like, so they can't stop jihadists "Lads, lads, the license says Jihadists can't use this?" "Oh, nuts, ok, onto the next one, Malcolm."
raxxorrax 6y ago
FTP servers are terrorist enabler tools.

newyorker2 6y ago

To add to the other commenter's point, an example could be a mastadon instance.

IIAOPSW 6y ago

Fear mongering over the fact that anyone with a desktop can still run a server on the internet. Law enforcement / the establishment would much prefer for centralized, US based cloud services (re: AWS) to be the only way to host something online, as companies can be deputized at any time via court order. The ideal scenario (from their point of view) is something like in China where every website has to have an internet license from the government and a public official has an office on the inside of every major company. When China does it we decry tencent as an arm of the CCP. When America does it we look the other way because no one wants to be seen defending "terrorism". Never mind that the "terrorism" in this case is a separatist group that hasn't been relevant since last year.