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.
Pretty funny to see a member of the Taliban espouse freedom of speech. I really doubt that
It’s just like Elons definition. To these people freedom of speech means freedom to say what they want and not be challenged by pesky things like facts.
Freedom from consequence for me but not for thee
if they really want freedom of speech, then they should use gab.com
Wow. This place is ridiculous.
Dear lord…
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
I tried it too, but it seems my pihole already has that domain fully blocked. Probably for the best.
Phew, good little pihole!
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
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.
This is some !nottheonion@lemmy.world stuff
I’m new to Lemmy and have my account on Aussie.zone. Do I need to register an account on the lemmy.world instance for that link to work? I’m using the Connect app on Android if that helps.
Nope, your app should be able to send you there by clicking that ID. If it isn’t, then that’s likely a feature that is still being implemented (it’s the equivalent to r/subreddit on Reddit).
Btw in case you haven’t noticed, you’re already commenting on a Post from lemmy.world, so no, you don’t need a separate account.
But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?
…not that I’d expect the answer to differ.
Twittler?
