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Asian Image reports that a campaign has been launched on Twitter urging people not to share a video purporting to show the murder of James Foley and thousands of ordinary users from around the world have backed the plan to deny IS publicity in horror at the horrific beheading footage, using the hashtag #ISISmediablackout. Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo said the firm was taking action against accounts which spread the video. Still images from the video were removed from Twitter. Some individuals, including Al Jazeera America’s Wajahat Ali, said sharing the images of Foley’s apparent death on social media played into the militant group’s hands while others users suggested journalists “have a responsibility” to report murder.
The video of Foley’s purported killing was initially posted on YouTube, but taken down shortly afterward. Some criticized YouTube for not taking the video down quickly enough. "It's lucky that video didn't have a unlicensed Katy Perry song as a soundtrack or it would've been deleted from YouTube in seconds," wrote Tom Gara. A YouTube spokesperson would not say how long the video had remained posted on the site. The spokesperson said the company had "clear policies that prohibit content like gratuitous violence, hate speech and incitement to commit violent acts, and we remove videos violating these policies when flagged by our users".
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @10:29PM
Need to shun islam which is the cause of the beheadings, not a video.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 20 2014, @11:06PM
Need to shun the (some) people that trick the (other) people into violence whether that violence is politically or religiously motivated.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:02AM
Not only is this spot on in the way that the bizarrely modded up parent post isn't, but it also circles us right back to how to approach this. By 'consuming' the video we're giving their message air time. Name a better way to shun them than to devalue their tactic. It's certainly better than messing with innocent people out of ignorance.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @12:42AM
Need to shun islam which is the cause of the beheadings, not a video.
Because a christian would never behead someone. [nytimes.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @01:57AM
Wrong argument. All Judeo-Christian religion is evil. There is a progressive argument in favor of the Iraqi invasion, on the grounds that it establishes a strong foothold for liberalism and reason in the Middle-East.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:03AM
There is a progressive argument in favor of the Iraqi invasion, on the grounds that it establishes a strong foothold for liberalism and reason in the Middle-East.
You mean a neo-con argument.
Turns out you can't spread progress by killing thousands of regular people.
Any real progressive would have known that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @02:53AM
Israel seems to be following that doctrine and is quite successful [thehypertexts.com] with it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @05:27AM
Lol.
Wait, you are joking, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:14PM
The only place that argument might work is Afghanistan, but they were significantly more progressive and liberal before the US put the Taliban in power. Thus, the US finally trying to clean up their mess isn't establishing a foothold for liberalism, its removing the totalitarian force which removed their previous liberalism.
If we really cared about "establishing a foothold for liberalism and reason" we'd ally with Turkey to invade Saudi Arabia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 22 2014, @01:07AM
Wrong argument. All Judeo-Christian religion is evil.
Because Buddhists are so great. [foreignpolicy.com]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Magic Oddball on Thursday August 21 2014, @03:28AM
No, need to shun trolls and people that are either too bigoted or not bright enough to distinguish between "religion that isn't theirs" and "group of violent militaristic assholes using religion as an excuse for attacking others."
Seeing bigoted junk like the parent post given a score of "insightful" makes me really wish that I'd get some freaking mod points already...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @04:50AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Thursday August 21 2014, @09:04AM
I don't think killing reporters is part of any holy war.
This video smells of propaganda. The guy ascribed his death to the US policy, yet the effect is an open door to American retaliation. Pull the tail of a lion, the lion attacks you, and people will go "Well you asked for it".
ISIS, Egyptian goddess' name, gets a lot of arms from who knows where, butchers left and right, grabs media attention to the benefit of their worst enemy (Israel, who for all their hypothetical good intentions are still bombing civilians in their reserve), makes a semipro quality beheading video to provoke America into actions. Well, ISIS guys, if you believe in Allah ask him for guidance because as of now we have a textbook example of terrorism helping the other side. No virgins for you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:16PM
The audience isn't americans. It is potential recruits.
It carries risk of retaliation, but it also gives them lots of political capital with people who lean anti-western.
Sort of like the popularity bump Obama got for killing bin Laden.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday August 23 2014, @10:59AM
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(Score: 2) by tathra on Thursday August 21 2014, @07:29PM
the US needs to stay the fuck out because its our fault that ISIS is running amok. if we hadn't invaded and destablized the place, they wouldnt be beheading our journalists, and things would likely only end up even worse if we intervened again unless we do a proper invasion and take the place over for real. if anybody should be going in there to fight ISIS, its the surrounding countries (at least one of which is likely using ISIS as their proxy, and we need to stop fighting wars by proxy since nothing good ever comes from it) since they have a stake in the stability of the area, and if they allow ISIS to grow too much it could be their country invaded next.
we need to stop the CIA from funneling weapons into the area too since they're almost guaranteed to end up in the hands of insurgents, if not sold directly to them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 22 2014, @04:03AM
Eh, ISIS is even more about Syria than it is Iraq. And while you might say that our prior support of Assad has contributed to the current conflict, it is even more true that a general lack of support for moderate revolutionaries has created a vacuum that ISIS filled.