"...the Taliban is not registered as a terrorist organization by the State Department."

Funny, even the Taliban knows that they are terrorists. Tell the families of all the Taliban's victims that they are not terrorists.

I know for a fact that US Banks can not do business with the Taliban. Why not? Because they are f***ing terrorists. Of course shutting off their twitter feed wont prevent their terrorism. But so what?

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: Joe Lieberman is at it again. And by "it," I mean
: throwing around the word "terrorist" as an excuse to
: further sanitize the web for our "protection." Having
: already talked Google into allowing users to flag Youtube videos
: as "terrorist," Lieberman went a step further, asking
: for the "Report as Terrorist" option to be applied to
: Blogger as well.
:
: Having taken a swing at long-form blogging, Lieberman is now
: taking the fight to the other end of the "wordiness"
: spectrum: Twitter.
:
: Senators want to stop feeds which boast of insurgent
: attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan and the casualties they
: inflict. Aides for Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland
: Security Committee, said the move was part of a wider attempt to
: eliminate violent Islamist extremist propaganda from the
: internet and social media. The Taliban movement has embraced the
: social network as part of its propaganda effort and regularly
: tweets about attacks or posts links to its statements.
:
: Like everyone else in this digital age, the Taliban is using
: various social media to communicate with its fans. But why
: should our Senators be concerned about what the Taliban had for
: lunch? And more importantly, why do they feel so deeply that
: forcing Twitter to block these feeds will prevent future
: "violent Islamist extremist" action? If NATO forces
: are attacked and no one tweets about it, does it change the
: outcome?
:
: The feeds named in the Telegraph article (@ABalkhi and
: @alemarahweb) are about as "threatening" as a Westboro
: Bapist Church Twitter account, with a few facts tucked away
: between tweet after tweet filled with jingoistic statements and
: "preaching to the converted." The very idea that
: blocking feeds like this will deter or diminish future Taliban
: activity is laughable at best, and disingenuous grandstanding at
: worst. In fact, it makes Lieberman and his fellow Senators
: nothing more than "preaching to the converted"
: grandstanders, scoring easy points with voters who still somehow
: believe the only thing Twitter has to offer is lunch
: descriptions and terrorist propaganda.
:
: As for Twitter, it won't even confirm whether or not Lieberman
: has asked it to block the feeds.
:
: Rachel Bremer, a spokesman for Twitter, said: "This
: isn't something we'd comment on."
:
: Not only that, but Twitter won't have to block these feeds no
: matter how nicely Lieberman asks because the Taliban is not
: registered as a terrorist organization by the State Department.
: Any censorship applied by Twitter would pretty much just be a
: personal favor to Joe, rather than a government-sanctioned
: shutdown.
:
: Lieberman obviously believes that his success with Youtube
: filtering should be applied to every area of the internet. He's
: already gone after the long (Blogger) and the short (Twitter)
: which means his next request for "Report as Terrorist"
: buttons will be sent to Tumblr, possibly resulting in the
: removal of f*ckyeahterrorism.tumblr.com and
: ryangoslingtaliban.tumblr.com.
:
: One has to wonder why Lieberman is so persistent in his attempts
: to turn every form of social media into a scattershot weapon
: aimed at the angry words and hashtags of "Islamist
: extremists." Possibly a core chunk of his key demographic
: responds well to blaming the internet for terrorism, but that
: seems unlikely. Maybe he just likes to see his name in print
: and, much like four-year-olds and Lindsay Lohan, firmly believes
: any "attention" is "good attention."
:
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