20 August 2021, 06:57 AM
AxtremusSocial Networking Platforms and the Taliban
https://www.washingtonpost.com...7bd9ce270_story.htmlA few interesting points:
- “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?