"Other platforms cannot replace it," said a senior member of the Taliban in a tweet, explaining that Meta is "intolerant."

Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, has officially endorsed Twitter over Facebook-owned competitor Threads.

“Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms,” Haqqani said in an English post on Twitter. “The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”

Twitter has fallen out of favor with many people since Elon Musk took over the company last year…The Taliban, however, seems to love it. Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.

Haqqani noted that the biggest draw of Twitter was this lax moderation policy…Facebook and TikTok both view the Taliban as a terrorist organization and disallow them from posting. It’s a ban that persists to this day.

  • Trollmittens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    The Talliban accusing a company (Meta) of having intolerant policies is perhaps the most insanely hypocritical thing I’ve heard. I love it! “They don’t tolerate our intolerance”

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s the Taliban, the appropriate action is to ignore everything they say because they’re religious extremists who commit violent actions against random citizens of their own and other nations.

      I they said Twitter was bad and endorsed Threads would you still give a shit? lol

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      A handful of years ago, US Republicans were losing their shit over Muslims and the Taliban, basically saying they were the biggest threat. I’m honestly waiting for them to realize that their views are almost completely aligned with the Taliban’s. Both against abortion and LGBTQ rights, both want religion in schools and to get rid of the separation of church and state, etc. It doesn’t at all surprise me that Republicans and the Taliban have the same preferred social media.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s because they’re both authoritarians.

        It’s the same reason Tankies hate Nazi’s when they’re both essentially the same thing in practice despite their economic outlooks being opposite. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, everything else is just a different flavor.

        Christian authoritarians think they’re good and muslim’s sharia law bad, but in reality they’re just two religions trying to force their shit on everyone else. They physically cannot see that it’s the same because to them it’s “morally correct” and therefore not authoritarianism.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Pretty funny to see a member of the Taliban espouse freedom of speech. I really doubt that

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s just like Elons definition. To these people freedom of speech means freedom to say what they want and not be challenged by pesky things like facts.

  • Aesecakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This ruins my analogy of Meta federating with Activity Pub being like the Taliban promising to be good guys this time round.

  • jray4559@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.

    I’m surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn’t they want to be underground?

    • SoLongThx4TheFish@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They are governing Afghanistan, why wouldn’t they have a Twitter?

      Plus, even ISIS used Twitter (and maybe still does?). It’s a good propaganda tool.

  • TheTechNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    “Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January”

    I am dead

    • 10tec@aussie.zoneEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m new to Lemmy and have my account on Aussie.zone. Do I need to register an account on the lemmy.world instance for that link to work? I’m using the Connect app on Android if that helps.

      • Johnny@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nope, your app should be able to send you there by clicking that ID. If it isn’t, then that’s likely a feature that is still being implemented (it’s the equivalent to r/subreddit on Reddit).

        Btw in case you haven’t noticed, you’re already commenting on a Post from lemmy.world, so no, you don’t need a separate account.

    • StarServal@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m sure you’re probably joking, but in case you weren’t, that would set Meta up for some federal crime type of trouble.

      • Poggervania@kbin.social
        01·
        1 year ago

        Good thing businesses don’t regularly break laws and just pay a relatively small fee in order to continue doing business. /s

        Snark aside, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerfuck could afford to either just pay the fines or bribe public officials to letting this happen.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I bet a quarter of the users are FBI agents. We need more “safe” spaces for this. Rather have all the right-wing terrorists in one spot instead of scattered to the wind.

  • Grimlo9ic@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    What a fucking glowing recommendation and endorsement from an absolutely reputable organization. /s

    On the other hand, I feel for those engineers at Twitter. Yeah they are choosing to stay, but one, for those of them who really believe in Twitter as a tool, it’s not so easy to leave it behind all because corporate leadership is acting dumb, and two, even though Twitter still looks great on a resume, switching jobs is not as easy as stopping to go work for one place on one day and starting in another the next.