Anonymous claim Twitter is shutting down their accounts for harassing ISIS
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
RT,
6
March, 2016
Online
activists involved in the #OpISIS campaign to rid social media of an
Islamic extremist presence say Twitter has been suspending their
accounts for online harassment against the terrorist group.
An
Anonymous hacker made the claims after Twitter said
it suspended 125,000 accounts for “threatening
or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS” since
mid-2015.
Who Suspended 125,000 Twitter accounts? #OpISIS #Anonymous #GhostOfNoNation http://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-islamic-state-idUSKCN0VE2GM …
“You
do realize if we all stopped reporting terrorist accounts and graphic
images, Twitter would be flooded with terrorists,”WauchulaGhost,
an anti-terrorist hacker with Anonymous told The
Epoch Times.
Hackers
from groups such as Anonymous, GhostSec,and Ctrl Sec regularly
publish lists of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) supporters
and recruiters, and call on the wider online community to report the
related social media accounts for suspension.
However,
the hacktivists say they are now the ones being targeted by Twitter,
which recently strengthened its rules regarding online
harassment.
A
number of the hackers’ accounts have been suspended, including some
of the main #OpISIS accounts, with the handles being taken down
one-by-one or in groups.
Twitter
has tended to reinstate the accounts within hours after it is
bombarded with requests to do so by other hackers and supporters.
Ghost is here ;)
Apply those immediate suspensions @Support @twitter on terrorists!!
Please reinstate our hunter @HereReport1 We want him back! #OpISIS
4:30 AM - 5 Mar 2016
WauchulaGhost,
who had his account temporarily suspende
in
February, told The Epoch Times he’s still not sure what happened to
prompt the suspension or ensure its reinstatement: “I
never received an email from Twitter”.
In
January, US widow Tamara Fields filed a lawsuit against Twitter after
her husband was killed in Jordan in an IS attack. She accuses the
social network of facilitating communication between terrorists and
fueling the growth of IS.
About
3,000 IS-supporting Twitter accounts are active at any given time,
according to a George
Washington Universityreport
published last month.
The
report found that Twitter and Facebook are the two main platforms
used by IS supporters to spread their propaganda. It also found that
the Twitter suspensions were having an impact on the propaganda reach
of IS among its English-speaking supporters.
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