Israeli Group Threatens Twitter With Lawsuit Over Terrorist Accounts
- Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:32pm by
Liz Klimas
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Shurat HaDin, an Israeli legal law center, has accused Twitter of hosting terrorist accounts and threatened the microblogging site with a lawsuit if its policy is not changed and the accounts deactivated.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner (Photo: Shurat HaDin)
The Daily Mail reports that in a letter to Twitter, the group says that the site is being used by Hezbollah and the Taliban to comment on Western news as well as inform of terrorist attacks. Venture Beat reports that the founder of the activist organization Nitsana Darshan-Leitner said in a press release the site is violating a 2010 Supreme Court decision, making it unlawful to provide “material support” to terrorist organizations. The Daily Mail has more from Darshan-Leitner:
“Twitter’s complicit service to known foreign terrorist organizations is not only morally irresponsible, it is also illegal.
“Twitter needs to take responsibility for the platform it is providing to known terrorists and cease and desist immediately. Their failure to do so exposes them to severe liability.”
Earlier this year, Venture Beat notes, the group went after Facebook for user accounts promoting the Third Intifada, but did not carry out its threats.
This is not the first time Twitter has come under fire for terrorist accounts. The Daily Mail reports that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has tried to get the site to revise its policies to not allow such accounts as well.
But, Twitter hasn’t budged. Daily Mail has more:
In a post entitled, “The Tweets Must Flow” this year the site announced, “We don’t always agree with the things people choose to tweet, but we keep the information flowing irrespective of any view we may have about the content.”
CNN reports that Hezbollah-controlled al-Manar television has an account with 7,500 followers and notes that there are other accounts that could be considered manned by terrorists. Yet, when you try to find this account on Twitter, at least at the time of this posting, the account does not seem to exist. CNN has more:
Aden Fine, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told CNN that the Supreme Court “has not directly addressed the issue of whether any speech allegedly supportive of a designated terrorist organization is unlawful.“ But ”the government can‘t force private companies to censor lawful speech just because the government doesn’t like the speech or the people making the speech,” he said.
CNN goes on to report Darshan-Leitner as saying that she hopes Twitter will change its policy since this information was brought to its attention.
Shurat HaDin’s slogan is “Bankrupting terrorism, one lawsuit at a time.”
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Veritas Libertas
Posted on January 1, 2012 at 5:43pmIs this a call to ramp up for airstrikes, no fly zones and kinetic military action against Twitter? Seriously, Israeli intelligence can get the Stuxnet worm into Iranian facilities, I doubt they’re concerned about Twitter. Probably monitoring the tweets and followers to gather intel. Oops, TMI.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:42pmOn facebook, there are links asking “do you support the palestinian third intafada?” I report them as supporters of terrorism
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:49pmCaution when reading today’s post brain dead zone!
Report Post »killsing
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:48amObama “Bankrupting the United States, one term at a time”
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:59amWhen he starts WW3 with China over attacking Iran he won’t have to play any of that money back. Then the military industrial complex will hire a bunch of people and revive the economy. He’ll do it right before the elections so he can stay in office. He’s a got a plan man, he’s got a plan.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:59ampay*
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:48amHey, that’s what CAIR does. Finally you get it!
Report Post »Quasimofo
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:00amSilly joo lawyers.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 12:53amMeanwhile, in the Maldives, radical Islamists are busy bankrupting the free world, one bloodthirsty riot at a time.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:25amThose bankrupting the American, and world economies, certainly are not Muslim. Soros is Jewish. Bernanke is Jewish. Ron Bloom, Peter Orszag and Jacob Lew are Jewish. Larry Summers is Jewish. A Jew has been Chair of our Federal Reserve my entire life.
These are the people who are responsible for sending our wealth around the globe, wealth taken in the form of interest paid on our debt created by the same people. These private central bankers have taken our wealth an subsidized China’s growth… they are working against our national interests.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:58amSo, if every Jewish person in the world suddenly disappeared, it would be a good thing, and it would correct the world’s economy? Interesting concept, but not new — and I’m not a big fan of the rather demanding tenets of those who have tried to make it happen (or those who still are trying).
No, if I were given a choice of eliminating an extreme version of any one ideology in the world, Judaism wouldn’t be at the top of the list.
Report Post »judyaz
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 12:06amHmm….Does this mean it is legal to shout, “Fire!” in a crowded theater? Or does freedom of speech only apply for avowed enemies of the U.S. or to traitors?
Report Post »Where is our outcry?
marion
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 10:14pmJust doing the same thing the Muslims are trying to do to our country. Fighting for the rights to have a driver’s license picture in a full Burkha, gotta wear a head dress in JROTC, getting to pray during work hours without puching out on the clock, things like that. Time for someone, anyone, to step up and fight for freedoms, one lawsuit at a time. If they can do it, we can do it, too.
Report Post »suz
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:53pmdiligence..one lawsuit at a time.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:45pmI am not on the lawyers side… but I oppose Terrorist Tools!
Report Post »number9
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:20pmBut…but…it’d make the DHS/NIA/CIA/FBI/YMCA’s job soooo much easier to keep on EYE ON THEM? no? (as well as keeping an eye on the average joe as well. Like…I don’t know- See something, Tweet, oops- I mean SAY something) and be it far from me to stop terrorists from tweeting their plans. Oh well.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:18pmLawsuit, the same weapon Jews have used in this country in their never ending quest to make the majority acquiesce to their minority view; be it removing Christian objects, prayers or long practiced traditions.
Report Post »No surprise. Ever ask yourself why B.C. & A.D. were changed to B.C.E. & A.C.E.? Use of the CE abbreviation was introduced by Jewish academics in the mid-19th century. Since the later 20th century, usage of CE and BCE has been popularized in academic and scientific publications, and more generally by publishers emphasizing secularism or sensitivity to non-Christians.
TruthIsGod
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 1:21amSMACKDOWN33 – Nobody cares what JEWs do. We just care about what the ungodly muslims and liberals do. Are you a racist?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:17amRe-read your posting, then look into a mirror.
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 2:47pmYada yada yada!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:11pmSmack, you argue that Jews have been attacking Christian prayers and objects? Where? I see plenty of atheists. How many churches have been blown up by Jews throughout history? How many synagogues have been burnt down by Christians? And as for prayers, there’s a Jewish prayer where one passage (“For they bow to vanity and emptiness and pray to a god which helps not”) usually either doesn’t appear in prayer books or appears in parentheses because it was thought to antagonize Christians. Some of the less traditional congregations choose not to say the verse at all.
Report Post »And as for the whole BCE/CE issue, how would you feel if the established method of measuring time was based on the year Mohamed made his pilgrimage. Jews don’t believe Jesus was Christ, nor do they hold him to be their lord. If it‘s the Federal Government’s responsibility to establish “weights and measures” and Congress is forbidden to establish one religion over another, wouldn’t using religious terms for the years violate the 1st amendment? Imagine if miles were instead called by some religiously defined distance.
A nativity scene doesn‘t affect anyone who isn’t Christian, but requiring everyone to use Christian terms for the years absolutely does.
Anamah
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 6:11pmTerrorist movements must be boycott They are the world cancer.
Report Post »BornJewishMuslimByFaith
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:59pmThey can do what they wish. Personally I feel this would not accomplish anything.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 31, 2011 at 6:13pmAbsolutely right. I honestly doubt the courts would rule in their favor anyways. But it’s their decision and they have every right to file a suit.
Report Post »ConservativeCharlie
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:43pmPoor Isreal, bet you they feel a bit abondoned. After Seeing what Obama has planed for them I can only pray for them. http://www.theobamaplan.com/
Report Post »scheduler
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:52pmThe US should provide more support.
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Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 7:51pmWell then perhaps Israel should stop trying to sell weapons to China and stop building that UAV plant with Russia on Russian soil.
Do they get a pass for arming our enemies simply because they are Israel?
Report Post »Firefighter 538
Posted on December 30, 2011 at 5:41pmNothing going on here…just move along…nothing to see here…..liberals at work….nothing to worry about….
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