“We have certainly made it a lot harder for them to operate in this space.”
Facebook and Twitter are ruthlessly clamping down on foes of jihad terror — referrals to Jihad Watch from Facebook and Twitter went down 90% on February 11 and have never rebounded — as well as upon jihadis. This is another attempt to appease Muslims and avoid appearing “Islamophobic,” by reinforcing a false moral equivalence, perpetuating the libelous and ridiculous claim that “Islamophobes” are the non-Muslim equivalent of jihad terrorists.
Maybe foes of jihad terror will have to set up secret spaces on the dark web.
“DARK WEB ISIS ‘is building its own secret social media platform to rival Facebook where fanatics can recruit new jihadis and share vile beheading videos,” by Tom Michael, The Sun, May 4, 2017:
ISIS is developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook where fanatics will be free to recruit others and share extremist material, according to the EU’s top cop.
Europol Director Rob Wainwright said the new online platform had been uncovered during a 48-hour operation targeting internet extremism last week.
More than 2,000 extremist items were identified on 52 social media platforms during the crackdown, which involved officials from the US, Belgium, Greece, Poland, and Portugal.
Speaking at a security conference in London, Wainwright said: “Within that operation it was revealed ISIS was now developing its very own social media platform – its own part of the internet to run its agenda.
“It does show that some members of Daesh (ISIS), at least, continue to innovate in this space.”
Jihadis have often relied on mainstream social media platforms to communicate and to spread propaganda.
Messaging app Telegram has proved especially popular over the past year, with terror chiefs using it to urge lone wolf attacks in the weeks leading up to Khalid Masood’s Westminster rampage.
It has also been used to share instructional videos on how to make suicide belts, along with “idiot’s guides” to other attack methods in the past.
But technology firms like Facebook and Google have come under increasing pressure to do more to tackle extremist material online, prompting the fanatics to explore other options.
Wainwright said ISIS’s decision to try and create its own social media platform was a response to combined pressure from intelligence agencies, police forces and the tech sector.
He said: “We have certainly made it a lot harder for them to operate in this space….
Halal Bacon says
Why is it that if I don’t pay my internet bill I get cut off, yet these savages have no problem accessing the net?
mortimer says
I would be in favor of leaving the jihadists alone so that the security people could track them and then sting their followers and put them in jail for 15 years.
Jeanette says
These people are trying to bring down the governments of western nations; that is sabotage.
They should be arrested and tried for sabotage in the appropriate country/countries, and then punished to the max – death in some countries.
Forcing westerners to support them for fifteen years is a good way to strip those westerners of even more money.
Westman says
“It does show that some members of Daesh (ISIS), at least, continue to innovate in this space.”
They don’t have to innovate on the web. Facebook’s html code is readable on any browser that will display it as is that of any other web server. Creating a parallel social media is less of a problem than getting sane persons to use it.
Joe says
Reading Facebook’s HTML wouldn’t help, but a wiki (the type of code that Facebook and most other social media sites use) is easy code to write.
Richard says
The trouble is, the dark web will work nicely for jihadist, but be nothing but an echo chamber for counter jihadists.
Jeanette says
I agree – secrecy is why so many westerners don’t know what Islam really is. The last thing we need is to be forced to be secretive.
Larry Vaughn says
Why are we “friends” with the Saudis? Is it because of oil and money?
AngB says
Great. Just what we need. A platform dedicated, without BOUNDS to LURE IN and CREATE more homegrown TERRORISTS! Wonderful.
We need to get some laws passed NOW to handle these…”ready to be programmed” liberal indoctrinated, MINDLESS SHEEP!
Guest says
Don’t we have laws for this?