It’s interesting that when ISIS used social media and messaging platforms to coordinate a genocide and attacks in which thousands were murdered the big tech didn’t take those platforms off line. Was it just because they didn’t feel lives in Iraq and Syria were as important?
I remember in 2014 how open support of ISIS was, we learned later the group even used platforms to trade and sell slaves. Millions of pro-ISIS accounts were later closed but no one moved as quick as they did to stop Parler. That is interesting historically.
It took years to remove the ISIS extremist accounts between 2014 and 2017...I know because I followed and wrote about this issue and was in Sinjar after the genocide. It took just days to remove Parler.
https://twitter.com/amaramarasingam/status/1348636592873861122
I wish that western big tech took as seriously these issues abroad when it comes to spreading hate and extremism. Have they gotten better? Yes. But they moved very slowly before.
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