On 18 January, an Arabic-language Twitter account popped up to be the official outlet for a new Boko Haram media group. Since then, the group has used the feed to publish a stream of propaganda, including two new videos. Officials believe that they are following the activities of ISIS and their tactics with social media. They upload pictures and videos of themselves that make them appear victorious.
Do you think that social media sites, such as Twitter, should take stronger action against these types of accounts that pop up? Do you think that they CAN take stronger action?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-31522469
-- Edited by [what] on Thursday 19th of February 2015 02:32:43 AM
I feel they should take stronger action against accounts such as this, however censorship should not be taken so far as to force biased opinions upon others due to disagreements.
This is a difficult issue to consider. On one hand, there is a desperate requirement to abolish censorship WORLDWIDE. Words are human's most powerful weapon, and they cannot be stunted. However, when it comes to speech that is a call to violent action, a problem arises. I do maintain that although freedom of speech, as Twitter is a very powerful forum for speech, is keen to human progression-if not total censorship-then a monitoring of Boko Haram's media needs to occur. Moreover, freedom of speech DOES NOT allow freedom of invoked violence and terrorism-including acts of mass murder of innocent women, men, and children-therefore justifying monitoring the activities of groups such as Boko Haram, PEGIDA, and ISIS on the world wide web.
I think Twitter should definitely take stronger action against these types of accounts. Things like this can unnecessarily scare citizens as well. They can and should have better control over accounts like this.
I think that if the threat is great enough, twitter should take action against them. Their page could be taken down, or even traced by police to find the location of ISIS and perhaps put a stop to all their threatening/Terrorist actions
