ISIS Threatens to Kill Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey

[astr0144]

ISIS Threatens to Kill Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey

A new posting by the Islamic State is encouraging its members to kill the founder of Twitter and other employees of the social network.

The declaration, which was originally posted on justpaste.it, and then translated by BuzzFeed, is addressed to Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter in 2006 and is now chairman of its executive board. The threat takes issue with Twitter's attempts to thwart IS's dissemination of propaganda on the social network. The company frequently shuts down any official IS accounts as they pop up.


"Your virtual war on us will cause a real war on you," the post reads. Though it was shared online by IS supporters, its source has not been confirmed. "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."



Twitter, as I've reported in the past, is one of IS's main avenues to quickly spread content; it has posted beheading videos on the service and has attempted to recruit new members there, too. In some cases, actual fighters tweet from the front lines of battle in Syria. A recent study showed that as many 46,000 Twitter accounts were used by IS sympathizers during a three-month period last fall.


Though Twitter's official terms of use policy bans "direct, specific threats of violence against others," the company told my colleague Mike Isikoff that it does not proactively monitor its networks for terrorist activity. This laissez-faire attitude has spurred Congress to pressure Twitter to ramp up its efforts at blocking the terrorist organization's online presence.

Now, it seems that IS is trying to intimidate Twitter executives with a call from all its members around the globe to attack the company.

"For the 'individual jihadi' all over the world, target the Twitter company and its interests in any place, people, and buildings, and don't allow any one of the atheists to survive," the post reads.



https://www.yahoo.com/tech/isis-threatens-to-kill-twitter-co-founder-jack-112513514549.html

[space otter]

seems they are the kkk in black...

I've had enough.....this has to stop...

I shine a light  on all of them that their faces are seen with their evil written on their faces
and they are recognized as evil
and  a higher power crushes their evil by  blessing them with  a conscious and knowledge
of what they are doing..

[astr0144]

You may have a possible description of a connection with how they seem to do things similar to some things that the KKK may have done or maybe still do in what you say Space Otter..

It may be just the start of other sites to be attacked in a similar way...

These things seem to always crop up sooner or later.. just hope it dies down again soon..

seems they are the kkk in black...

I've had enough.....this has to stop...

I shine a light  on all of them that their faces are seen with their evil written on their faces
and they are recognized as evil
and  a higher power crushes their evil by  blessing them with  a conscious and knowledge
of what they are doing..

[adomaniac]

This type of zealous behavior is exactly why I'm an anti-theist. It's one thing to hold private beliefs, quite another to start decapitating people who don't agree with you on issues that are entirely subjective.

[astr0144]

Sorry I deleted my post on this thread, somehow I seem to have got two threads mixed up.,

[Pimander]

This type of zealous behavior is exactly why I'm an anti-theist. It's one thing to hold private beliefs, quite another to start decapitating people who don't agree with you on issues that are entirely subjective.

Yep, aren't fundies a lovable bunch.

[zorgon]

This type of zealous behavior is exactly why I'm an anti-theist. It's one thing to hold private beliefs, quite another to start decapitating people who don't agree with you on issues that are entirely subjective.

Agreed and been saying so for years..

.. but I am thinking there is no point repeating it. I have seen a steady decline in rational thought since the 70's  I think the internet may be to blame, because before that our exposure to the world was small and local. Now we see and comment on everything that is happening and likely create it by focusing on it, certainly give it life.

Before we used to socialize in the real world and all that really mattered was in our own back yard... and we had relative peace

[petrus4]

This type of zealous behavior is exactly why I'm an anti-theist.

Encouraging anti-theistic attitudes is exactly what said behaviour is designed to do.  Read Albert Pike's quote.

[zorgon]

Works for me

Send all the God-Nuts into space to meet that comet! 

[ArMaP]

This type of zealous behavior is exactly why I'm an anti-theist. It's one thing to hold private beliefs, quite another to start decapitating people who don't agree with you on issues that are entirely subjective.

As I think that the "anti" point of view is what creates fundamentalism, I try not to be anti any thing, my beliefs are just that, I don't have reason to consider them better or worse than anyone else's.

[Pimander]

Encouraging anti-theistic attitudes is exactly what said behaviour is designed to do.  Read Albert Pike's quote.

I'm anti-scriptural.  I do not need the words of another man to know right from wrong.  Spiritual matters are for your own soul and should not be based on the second hand spiritual material of another.

[Glaucon]

I'm anti-scriptural.  I do not need the words of another man to know right from wrong.  Spiritual matters are for your own soul and should not be based on the second hand spiritual material of another.

You gotta love how ironic ISIL's dependency on Western social media platforms. Engineered and thought up in a free democracy,

[Pimander]

You gotta love how ironic ISIL's dependency on Western social media platforms. Engineered and thought up in a free democracy,

The only part that does not originate in a free democracy is their twisted philosophy.  Funny that. 

[adomaniac]

Encouraging anti-theistic attitudes is exactly what said behaviour is designed to do.  Read Albert Pike's quote.

What they design this behavior to do is cause widespread panic and fear, nothing more. Anti-theism isn't the goal, it's the inevitable result. Theism is responsible for so much anguish and despair in the world, as well as holding back the potential of the species. Abrahamic religions are a tattered remnant of the bronze age that we'd be better off discarding as soon as possible.

[ArMaP]

Theism is responsible for so much anguish and despair in the world, as well as holding back the potential of the species.

I don't think so, what is responsible is the way people act, and they act like that based on theism, politics, soccer clubs, whatever people can use as an excuse to have a target for their violence.