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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: 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]