- Clever-clogs and famous son of Woody Sinatra, Ronan Farrow, writes the follow opinion piece for the Washington Post.
Why don't YouTube, Facebook & Twitter do more to stop terrorists inciting violence? My take for the @washingtonpost: http://wapo.st/1qO7ow7- According to fellow journalist, Glenn Greenwald, Farrow has just played a rather politically biased card. Cue Greenwald:
Dear @RonanFarrow: should tech execs also remove anything advocating violence by US, Israel & allies, or is that OK? http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/10/farrow-why-arent-youtube-facebook-and-twitter-doing-more-to-stop-terrorists-from-inciting-violence/?hpid=z11 …- And away it goes...
- .@ggreenwald Do you not think the world should have jammed the Rwanda broadcasts? This is about direct incitement in sectarian powder kegs.
- Some days later, author and antagonist, Michael Arria, weighs in with some wry humour:
- ... and Greenwald runs with the ball for a while. Farrow declines to respond until much later.
- Reply to @RonanFarrow Please answer my question first, but for yours: no, I don't want private corps deciding what political speech is OK.
- @RonanFarrow If you're going to make this argument, you have to address things like this- https://twitter.com/nickastew/status/487569527799308288 … - or US calls to bomb Iran
- @RonanFarrow Not asking about "combative political speech" but calls for violence: Israel should kill Gazan Arabs! US should bomb Iran!
- @RonanFarrow Under your scheme, would this be allowed? http://www.timesofisrael.com/facebook-campaign-calls-for-vengeance-against-arabs/ …
- @gautambhatia88 I'd really like to hear @RonanFarrow call for Facebook & Twitter to ban Israelis who call for violence against Gazans then.
- @ggreenwald: I distinguish between calls to murder ethnic group & combative political speech. And would never countenance censoring latter.
- More to come? Perhaps not. But keep checking back just in case...
- In the meantime, a representative of our future Australopithecine overlords interjects...
@RonanFarrow @ggreenwald Qualitatively different cases. Hate speech urging government action less likely to incite than appeals to mob.
Greenwald versus Farrow
"I'll scratch your eyes out"
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