Google, Facebook and Twitter Sued for Allowing ISIS Messages to Spread

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Google, Facebook and Twitter sued for San Bernardino terrorist attack

 

Social media companies Facebook and Twitter, as well as Google, are being sued for allegedly enabling ISIS to spread its extremist messages ahead of the San Bernardino attack of 2015. 

 

The families of three victims are behind the lawsuit, which claims that these companies aided and abetted the terrorist attacks and are, therefore, liable for wrongful death, reports the Los Angeles Times.

 

"Even if Farook and Malik had never been directly in contact with ISIS, ISIS' use of social media directly influenced their actions on the day of the San Bernadino massacre," reads the lawsuit, referring to Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik. The two were known ISIS supporters and pledged their allegiance to the group on Facebook ahead of the attack.

 

The main idea behind the lawsuit is that because Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube allow everyone, including ISIS members, to post on their platforms, they are somehow at fault for indoctrinating the couple.

 

A flawed and dangerous idea

This seems like the type of lawsuit that will get thrown out quite quickly, mainly because there are billions of people using social media. Facebook is heading towards the 2 billion milestone, Twitter has over 315 million monthly users and Google is probably used by most people with an Internet access, except for those where other similar tools are available and locally promoted, like China. YouTube, for its part, doesn't necesarily have a number of users who view content, but it does release the number of hours watched by users every month - 3.25 billion.

 

Among these billions of people who use three of some of the most popular tools on the Internet, there are some bad seeds, of course, including ISIS members and other extremists. Most of these people are aware of ISIS and haven't gone to the dark side just because they exist and promote their content online. And for the record, their content does get removed and their accounts shut down.

 

The companies, logically, deny liability and say that it's a tenuous and potentially very dangerous chain of blame that led to them being sued. Basically, any social network can be blamed for terrorism around the world simply because the attackers may have had the smallest connection to the platform. That idea is deeply flawed.

 

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[Sylence]

Just think about how screwed up the society is, they should prevent social networks from spreading ISIS recruitment posts or else people, at least some, are so stupid and weak that they will join them won't miss the chance.. smh

go fix your society instead of fixing your social networks

[GRiM]

Absolutely ridiculous and idiotic lawsuit.

[pc71520]

Social Media      ISIS

[dufus]

On 04/05/2017 at 11:02 PM, saeed_dc said:

fix your society instead of fixing your social networks

fishes rot from head down

[nIGHT]

It's not these social network companies fault.

This is just a stupidly supposed-to-be brilliant idea of a law firm trying to milk the Giants.

[dufus]

On 08/05/2017 at 3:26 AM, nIGHT said:

t's not these social network companies fault.

they ok at censorship when suits

Facebook Built 'Censorship Tool' as Part of Chinese Expansion Effort: Report

http://abcnews.go.com/International/facebook-built-censorship-tool-part-chinese-expansion-effort/story?id=43740601

Facebook Suspends 30,000 French Accounts 10 days Before Election in Attempt to Censor Le Pen Supporters

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/04/facebook-suspends-30000-french-accounts-10-days-election-attempt-censor-le-pen-supporters/

 

[steven36]

2 hours ago, dufus said:

they ok at censorship when suits

It dont effect me i never got my news from Facebook do you ? If you are that lazy that you just go to Facebook  to get news you deserve to be spied on and censored! they didn't even have too suspend my account i stop even going there at all 7 years ago . They would be doing the world a favor it  they shut that crap hole down so if they ban you they did you favor is all. As far as Google they may be the worlds biggest search engine but there also the worlds biggest censors of the web

 

The New Censorship

How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites?

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated

Just today i  put in a simple term in Google and got no relevant results, it happens all the time now.. but  i go too duckduck go and put it in what i'm looking for comes right up but if you're looking for some over blown or fake  tabloid news Google is you're site People love too read fiction because it stops making them  thinking about the truth!