“The last time the Taliban was in power in Afghanistan, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube did not exist. Neither did MySpace, …”
Now that it looks like the Taliban will be the government of Afghanistan again, should the Taliban be given control of the “official accounts” for the Afghanistan government?
Who will adjudicate whether the Taliban is a “legitimate government”? The social media companies do not really want to do this sort of adjudications. Neither do most private enterprises, I suspect.
The US government does **not** consider the Taliban a “terrorist organization.” (I suppose that’s why the US government could cut and publicize a deal with the Taliban in 2020 without “negotiating with terrorists.”) So it’s not going to be as simple as drawing a circle around the label “terrorist organization” and coloring it red. The US government is not putting the Taliban in that circle. After all, if the Taliban can cut a deal with the US government, why can it not click “Accept” for a social media company’s end user agreement?
