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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsISIS On GETTR? Who Could Have Predicted This Shocking Turn Of Events?
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It's not funny, but it is hilarious.
Politico is out with a story this morning that Number One Trump Humper Jason Miller's knockoff Twitter site GETTR is currently overrun with ISIS propaganda, including videos of beheadings. Reporters Mark Scott and Tina Nguyen write that the site "features reams of jihadi-related material, including graphic videos of beheadings, viral memes that promote violence against the West and even memes of a militant executing Trump in an orange jumpsuit similar to those used in Guantanamo Bay."
This comes after the waves of N-word hashtags, Nazis, groypers, photos of feces, and furry porn that plagued the site in its first week online, during which it also managed to get hacked, compromising tens of thousands of users' data. And lest we forget, the entire platform is just a retread of Chinese expat billionaire Guo Wengui's old social media site GTV which makes sense, since Guo, who is Steve Bannon's BFF or something, is backing Miller's weeping goiter website.
Although the ISIS content makes up only a small portion of the nasty drek flowing through the GETTR gutter, it was entirely predictable that the platform would be immediately colonized by malign actors. Miller's whole pitch is that his site won't censor users for flogging lies about Covid, the election, or any other bullshit. Even if it had the heft to staff up with moderators to bounce destructive content, or join one of the tech consortiums that helps platforms behave in a plausibly responsible fashion or at least appear to GETTR would likely refuse to do anything that would tarnish its reputation as a free speech Mecca for the very worst people.
So of course when someone with an Islamic State flag as his avatar asked "Is Daesh here?" -- i.e. "Any ISIS peeps in the house?" -- the answer was yes.
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ISIS On GETTR? Who Could Have Predicted This Shocking Turn Of Events? (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2021
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EYESORE 9001
(25,965 posts)1. Ideological bros
Not surprised.
Chainfire
(17,595 posts)2. Birds of a feather...
There is no difference in Islamic Jihadist and American Christian Jihadists. It is right that they have a forum to share.