Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads - eviltoast

Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, has officially endorsed Twitter over Facebook-owned competitor Threads.

“Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms,” Haqqani said in an English post on Twitter. “The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”

Twitter has fallen out of favor with many people since Elon Musk took over the company last year…The Taliban, however, seems to love it. Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.

Haqqani noted that the biggest draw of Twitter was this lax moderation policy…Facebook and TikTok both view the Taliban as a terrorist organization and disallow them from posting. It’s a ban that persists to this day.

      • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        This comment made me open an incognito window and type in gab.com and I can assure you “Dear lord” is an understatement

        The top post is a horrifyingly racist diatribe by an “American of Japanese descent” then the second post is Tru*mp insisting that 'ol Joe has a coke problem

        WTF

        • Obinice@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 year ago

          I tried it too, but it seems my pihole already has that domain fully blocked. Probably for the best.

          Phew, good little pihole!

          • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 year ago

            I’m halfway through setting one up but having trouble with it potentially buggering up my streaming TV box that came with the router. Wife will kill me if she can’t watch her Poirot

            • neeeeDanke@feddit.de
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              1 year ago

              you should be able to whitelist devices. Or alternatively have it running without a blocklist and check what domains the box needs, then whitelist them.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        I bet a quarter of the users are FBI agents. We need more “safe” spaces for this. Rather have all the right-wing terrorists in one spot instead of scattered to the wind.