How the fuck is it America’s business?
Hamas' social media following has skyrocketed since its attack. America is powerless to stop it
Submitted 1 year ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/tech/hamas-telegram/index.html
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TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 year ago
The article is essentially just a hitpiece against Telegram and Twitter (though Musk has actually been taking down stuff at FBI's request so w/e).
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They back Israel so it’s their business
jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
CNN is republican propaganda now. Is there even a shred of actual evidence for this?
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hamas is a designated foreign terror organization in the United States, and new internet laws in the European Union mean large social media platforms can face penalties for hosting terroristic content.
Meta and Google prohibit Hamas accounts, but Telegram, a company founded by a Russian entrepreneur which is now based in Dubai, has decided to allow the group to continue use its service.
X, formerly Twitter, says it also has a ban on Hamas and has removed “hundreds” of “Hamas-affiliated accounts.” Last week, however, the European Union announced it was opening an investigation into the company about disinformation and illegal content about the conflict on its platform.
For years, critics of social media have tried to hold platforms accountable by suing them for the content they host, including material produced by terror groups.
But US courts have generally looked askance at this type of litigation, and few if any potential content moderation lawsuits linked to the Israel-Hamas war will get very far, at least in the United States, according to John Bergmayer, an attorney specializing in platform liability issues at Public Knowledge, a US-based consumer advocacy group.
The European Union has warned very large platforms this past week that they could also be fined billions if their handling of illegal content or mis- and disinformation violates the Digital Services Act (DSA), a law that went into effect for companies including Meta, X and TikTok in August.
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Why should we be trying to silence the voices on only one side?
Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 1 year ago
applejacks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yea just let our government decide for us what we should be allowed to see.
what a joke lmao
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Don’t change the subject. Why do you want to block Palestinian voices but give Israel free reign?
small44@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, just like we allowing the usa and israel propaganda
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Israel being a fascist state and always having been so is not Russian propaganda
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 year ago
Did it already not?
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hamas is Russian?
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree!! Silence everyone!! All silent lives matter!