Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube create anti-terror group Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have created a super-team to tackle terrorism. The fearless foursome currently face a tricky foe: public and government sentiment that their social licence could be revoked if they don't do something about their platforms being used to spread hate speech that radicalises users and …
While terrorists do use various social media and online communication tools and terrorists kills and maims innocent people how do you define 'terrorist content'. Outside of some blatant edge cases you could easily move into censorship of those whose views you do not like. If this is not done very, very carefully it could damage the brands more than if they did not do anything.
Indeed, a moving target.
I remember, back in the day, Special Branch photographing people at demos against visiting South African politicians (in the days of apartheid SA).
Back then the UK security forces thought you were a potential enemy of the state if you opposed that racist regime.
Yet now, you will not find a certain politician saying apartheid SA was anything other than evil, whereas back then plenty of politicians were pro apartheid SA.
Mandela went from being a terrorist to a saintly figure in a few decades.
Lets look at the Taleban, USA best mates when they wanted the USSR out of Afghanistan, nowadays deemed terrorists.
Their terrorism definition criteria will ahve to be fluid to change with the political winds
Not an apologist for Special Branch nor the Apartheid regime however:
Some revolutionaries will use any, usually benign, cause to support and justify their revolutionary and sometimes violent activity.
Some crazies are just so committed to their cause that they should be committed before their unwarranted violence causes injury or death.
I can see Superman, Flash, etc, but most important question as far as a superhero squad is concerned is unanswered.
Which one of these is the DD cup superhero (the one getting half of the pay rate too). there has to be at least one in an American superhero squad (usually an illegal alien too). It HAS to be of a DD cup size and it HAS to wear a skimpy outfit. Without that it cannot be an American Superhero squad.
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