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Unless it’s in the furtherance of catching or stopping an active criminal, I’d say no. Why would we be wasting government resources alerting private companies
by koolba 4y ago
Unless it’s in the furtherance of catching or stopping an active criminal, I’d say no.
Why would we be wasting government resources alerting private companies of their terms of service anyway?
- ethanbond 4y agoI don’t think it’s a waste of government resources to be reporting people who are trying to suppress voting by e.g. giving incorrect polling dates or locations. Also don’t think it’s a waste to try to prevent ISIS recruiting material from reaching more confused and angry young men. Both are legal though!
- TeeMassive 4y agoThe Taliban were on Twitter...
- ethanbond 4y agoAnd?
- TeeMassive 4y agoWell clearly the FBI don't find the Taliban bad enough for some reasons...
- ethanbond 4y agoOr… it turns out that the FBI has specific mandates and they include things like “counter election disinformation” and it doesn’t include things like “report every bad guy on Twitter.” This is only confusing starting from your own incorrect premise.
- TeeMassive 4y agoThe FBI don't have "mandates" against the Talibans? That doesn't seem to make sense...
- ethanbond 4y agoThe FBI is a domestic law enforcement agency. The Taliban does not really break US laws as a matter of course. If you hear otherwise please report them to the FBI. Honestly it’s not very fruitful arguing this stuff with someone who clearly doesn’t understand the basics of the American system. There are plenty of resources online to learn about all this stuff if you’re interested.
- TeeMassive 4y agoLiterally first search result: https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorinfo/sirajuddin-haqqani https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorinfo/sirajuddin-haqqani
- simpleblend 4y agoNo. The FBI is prioritizing certain things and not prioritizing others. They're doing this for political reasons, which should outrage everyone. But it doesn't outrage you because you're in agreement with the shit they're shoveling.
- llamaimperative 4y agoThe FBI: notoriously left wing Lol
- simpleblend 4y agoThe FBI is notoriously subversive, regardless of the political denomination.
- llamaimperative 4y ago
- mindslight 4y agoYou've hit the nail on the head - the term "political" is being used as a motte and bailey to take advantage of our intuition about bona fide political speech to cover for activities that aren't related to good faith debate. Like sure, tricking people into not voting is in some sense a "political" game, but it's not the kind of thing we'd consider "political speech" that needs protection. Same thing with assembling a flash mob to trash the capitol. And yes, this definitional/access tension always exists when taking political stances that go against the entrenched power structure. Try to get an antiwar opinion broadcast in 2003 - music DJ's weren't even allowed to play songs whose lyrics might hint that war in general might be a bad thing. Dealing with this is just a completely new experience for those on the right that have gone from being conservative (ie generally supportive of the incumbent power structure and institutions) to revolutionary/reactionary and directly against the status quo power structure. Social mass media, like all mass media, is now controlled by big capital (as was inevitable), with varying degrees of the individual employees adding some grassroots slant. Focusing on the slight individual flavor and ignoring the overriding power dynamic is just falling into the same old disempowering partisan trap.