TikTok to prohibit videos promoting bin Laden's 'Letter to America'
TikTok to prohibit videos promoting bin Laden's 'Letter to America'
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TikTok to prohibit videos promoting bin Laden's 'Letter to America'
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nov 16 (Reuters) - TikTok will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden's 2002 letter detailing the former al Qaeda leader's justifications for attacks against Americans, the short-form video app said on Thursday.
Discussions of the 20-year-old letter have spread on the platform this week in the context of debate over the Israel-Hamas war, with some users in the West praising its contents.
The letter, which was written after al Qaeda's attack on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people, criticized U.S. support for Israel, accused Americans of financing "oppression" of Palestinians, and contained antisemitic comments.
"Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules on supporting any form of terrorism," TikTok said in a statement, adding that reports that it was "trending" on the platform were inaccurate.
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement on Thursday: "There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history."
TikTok said previously its recommendation algorithm does not push certain content to users, and that the company has removed hundreds of thousands of videos since Oct. 7 for violating policies against misinformation and promotion of violence.
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I thought that was The Proclaimers.
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I guess it’s good in that I don’t want to be blown up for my governments’ crimes, but I think it should be required reading for every American.
It’s not like it’s some forbidden knowledge, either. It’s a poorly constructed argument for why it’s totally cool to indiscriminately murder civilians by a misogynistic religious fanatic. I was no more convinced by his views than I was after reading Mein Kampf.
People should see it so they get a primary perspective on why terrorists hate the United States. The US does a lot of fucked up shit and thinks they're immune to retaliation. If anyone is curious why these terrorists keep attacking the West, here it is. Whether you disagree or agree with him is kind of irrelevant.
It was interesting to me that in his letter he bought into our propaganda about us being the land of the free and used that as justification for the murder of civilians.
Is this not the letter that explained it’s not for our freedoms, but for us marauding, pillaging, raping, torturing, disappearing people, wanton destruction in their lands, selling them back their own resources we took?