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I have a problem with people who believe this propaganda had any net effect, except for railing up some people (which probably was the intent.)
by himinlomax 6y ago
I have a problem with people who believe this propaganda had any net effect, except for railing up some people (which probably was the intent.)
- simlevesque 6y agoHow can you say that when there are hundreds of confirmed cases of ISIS radicalizing people from the internet ? Why do you have a problem believing that ?
- himinlomax 6y agoAre there? Was it through Twitter? In all likelihood what you're talking about is some random semi-private forum that's going to fly under the radar anyway. And you have that big, huge number: hundreds, not mere dozens, hundreds! My oh my, that's a scary army right there. How many suicide bombers have the harassment by ISrael of the illegally occupied territories population created? And with this joke of an army is good enough to kill free speech on the net. That's almost as tragically comical as the floatsam in the Gulf of Tonkin that caused millions of deaths, but it's happening right now.
- eightysixfour 6y agoYes, and yes. You can find numerous examples where Twitter in particular was the method of recruitment. Here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/northern-va-teen-admits-running-pro-islamic-state-twitter-and-helping-man-join-terrorist-group/2015/06/11/1d0cb33e-0eef-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/northern-va-teen-...
- vladTheInhaler 6y agoLanguage is how we construct our shared reality. When you let language like this go unchallenged, it gives legitimacy to the worldview it endorses.
- himinlomax 6y agoThis argument for censorship is as pretentious as it's vacuous.
- vladTheInhaler 6y agoI dunno, calling something pretentious and vacuous with no other details is pretty much the most vacuous argument I can think of.