WOW: over 20.000 #IS accounts suspended. @twitter was really busy. Not only #IS accounts but also few #JN accounts (main ones too).
— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) February 27, 2015
ISIS threatens Twitter employees over 'genocide' on accounts.(TheGuardian).
Isis supporters have threatened Twitter employees, including co-founder Jack Dorsey specifically, with death over the social network’s practice of blocking accounts associated with the group.
In an Arabic post uploaded to the image-sharing site JustPaste.it, the group told Twitter that “your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you”. It warned that Jack Dorsey and Twitter employees have “become a target for the soldiers of the Caliphate and supporters scattered among your midst!”
“You started this failed war … We told you from the beginning it’s not your war, but you didn’t get it and kept closing our accounts on Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your breath, you will never come back to life.”
Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban “direct, specific threats of violence against others”, and the company has followed YouTube in proactively shutting down Isis-related Twitter accounts, with the aid of the UK’s counter-terrorism internet referral unit. Hmmm.....The fact they resort to threatening means they're hurting big time.... 'we have nothing to fear but fear itself' Read the full story here.
No wonder @twitter is closing #IS accounts. Now #IS is threatening @twitter openly pic.twitter.com/XKjHRR8c5y
— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) March 1, 2015
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