TWITTER STILL ALLOWS ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUPS

SUCH AS HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, AND

ARAKAN ROHINGYA SALVATION ARMY (ARSA)
TO HAVE ACCOUNTS ON TWITTER
By Rick Heizman, Oct 28, 2019
Twitter is knowingly and flagrantly aiding and abetting
Islamic terrorism groups - namely Hamas, Hezbollah,
and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) among
others - while removing accounts of people WHO
EXPOSE, CRITICIZE, WARN, and SIMPLY POINT
THESE FACT OUT! Twitter’s own words are a complete lie.

These terrorist groups kill people, many people, and if

they could, they would kill millions of people. There is a growing interest in holding social
media companies accountable for the services they allegedly provide to terrorists and terrorist
supporters. Twitter is in clear violation of US anti-terrorism laws (see below) and therefore is
complicit in the murder, mayhem, and execution of tens of thousands of victims. The entire
bunch of executives, including CEO Jack Dorsey should be charged with conspiracy to aid
and abet terrorist organizations, providing material support, murder, fomenting hatred towards
an ethnic people, and even treason against the nation.

LAWYERS and ATTORNEYS

I believe we have a major case here. A huge class-action lawsuit or lawsuits,

on behalf of tens of thousands of victims of terrorist attacks and violence by

Hamas, Hezbollah, and ARSA, in Israel, Lebanon, and Rakhine State of Myanmar.

Please contact me.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA AUTHORITATIVE DICTATORSHIP IN TWITTERLAND

Jack Dorsey and other top executives may be smug and self-righteous, but their stance in
supporting terrorist groups whose ultimate goals are to annihilate every non-Muslim if they
could, combined with their unelected power as lords of media, who can dictate what is ‘truth’
and what is ‘false’ or buried, is extremely troubling. It is an authoritative dictatorship of sorts.
The common people, you and me - the 99.99% of the population did not, and could not elect
these overlords. We cannot vote them out of power, nor even effectively communicate with or
protest their actions. Except for the CEO, we largely do not even know their names!

Social media has a terrorism problem. From Twitter’s infamous 2015 proclamation that it
would never censor a terrorist, to Facebook’s long delay in adopting signature-based content
blacklisting, social media has become a critical, perhaps unintended, ally in helping terror
organizations throughout the globe to recruit, communicate, glorify, and promote. The
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platforms themselves have been slow to respond, initially
rejecting calls to remove terrorists from their walled gardens.
Instead the social media giants took the easier route of closing
countless accounts of people EXPOSING, CRITICIZING, AND
WARNING about the methods, indoctrination, and dangers of
Islamic Terrorism!
SHOULD TERRORISTS GROUPS ACTUALLY BE SILENCED?
An even bigger question is whether we should be silencing
terrorists at all. Allowing them to communicate in the open, while
targeting their more secure channels offers a window to observe their activities, narratives,
and goals. Pushing this activity underground makes it more difficult to track. Moreover, it is
often far more effective to dampen their self-glorification and ideology by drowning out their
intolerant, bigoted hate speech than by playing whack-a-mole deleting it. Perhaps most
effective of all is to use the counterintelligence technique of creating a “wilderness of mirrors”
in which terrorists and their followers and would-be recruits are no longer able to know who or
what to trust, disrupting their information environment at a far deeper level, that has lasting
impacts, on the ability of the organization to harness the digital world.
Personally, I would prefer that there be NO censorship of the media - except for such things
as child pornography, death threats, and other things of this sort which are already criminal.
Let the terrorists broadcast their depraved ideology. Then it is much more obvious to counter.
And, let me and others criticize, expose, and warn people about the threats against them.
BUT, either allow freedom of speech on both sides (which is easier and not subject to the
opinions or ignorance of unelected Twitter executives), or properly target the TERRORISTS
and TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS (which is more difficult because there always are idiots).
Disturbingly, social media has responded to threats from the U.S. government to take action
by suspending hundreds of thousands of user accounts, effectively censoring constitutionally
protected speech.

TWITTER IS BEING SCRUTINIZED BY US CONGRESSPEOPLE

A team of bipartisan US lawmakers are digging into Twitter over its policy of allowing Hamas
and Hezbollah to maintain presences on the powerful social media platform. (And ARSA
should be added to that list).
In a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on October 21, 2019, the four House lawmakers
offered a sharp rebuke of the company’s decision to support accounts even for groups
designated as “foreign terrorist organizations” (FTOs) by the U.S. government, particularly
Hamas and Hezbollah.
“If you believe that Twitter is better at determining violent extremist content than the United
States Government's interagency process, then we urge you to come testify before Congress
to explain your own process and how it differs from that of the State and Treasury
Departments,” the lawmakers — including Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.Y.), Tom Reed (R-
N.Y.), Max Rose (D-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) — wrote to Dorsey.

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 Last month, Gottheimer, Reed and Fitzpatrick penned letters to the CEOs of Facebook,
YouTube and Twitter about why they allow figures associated with foreign terrorist
organizations (FTOs) — Hamas and Hezbollah — to make accounts, post and accrue
substantial followings on their platforms. 
After receiving responses from all of the companies over the past month, the lawmakers are
taking issue with Twitter in particular, which they say is not taking the issue seriously. 

Examples: Al Manar, a pro-Hezbollah news source, had around 11,600 followers as of

Monday morning, and Hamas’s English-language Twitter account had more than 71,800
followers. Officials with both groups have Twitter accounts with tens of thousands of
followers.  ARSA_the Army - the official Twitter accounts of ARSA - still has 2 accounts, one
of which is a locked account for members only, thereby able to transmit secret messages,
attack plans and commands that cannot be read by any non-member.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Rose, Reed and Gottheimer said they’re pushing the
company to take down the Hezbollah and Hamas content by Nov 1,2019. (And that should
include ARSA as well). 
“Bring your policy in line with U.S. law,” Gottheimer
said. “And we’re bringing it to the attention of the
State Department and the Treasury [Department].”
Hamas and Hezbollah are two of the more than 60
groups currently on the State Department’s list of
FTOs. (ARSA needs to be added).
In the letter, the lawmakers pointed to Google —
which owns YouTube — and Facebook’s responses
as a level of commitment larger than that of Twitter.
“While other social media companies, including
Facebook and Google, have taken proactive
measures to address the presence of FTOs and
affiliated accounts and content on their platforms,
Twitter is refusing to take adequate action to stop
the spread of terror,” the four lawmakers wrote.  Absolute hate permitted on Twitter

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TWITTER’S DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC POLICY PUTS HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH
Social media platforms like Twitter are largely allowed to craft their own policies around how
to handle groups designated as “terrorist groups" by the U.S. government. 
In a letter responding to the congressional inquiry last month, Twitter’s Director of Public
Policy Carlos Monje, Jr. explained that Twitter makes “exceptions” to its policies on terrorist
and extremist content for groups that are involved in “peaceful” resolution processes or that
“have been elected to public office, as is the case with parts of Hamas and Hezbollah,”
according to a letter made public on Tuesday.

However, as anyone with half a brain knows, Hamas, Hezbollah, or ARSA are not involved in
any kind of “peaceful” resolution, they all continually glorify violence, jihad, and a genocidal
annihilation of those they hate. And, re: those “elected to public office”…Would Twitter grant
accounts to Pol Pot, Osama bin-Laden, or Hitler if their respective populaces helped put them
in power? According to Monje, Twitter allows the group’s ‘political’ wings to maintain accounts,
though it does not allow accounts affiliated with their ‘military’ wings. Monje clearly was in
damage control mode and could not say anything intelligent or truthful.

So, in Twitterland where the ‘political’ arm of the terror group can dictate to kill all the Jews or
Buddhists, and the ‘military’ wing of the terrorist group will carry out the mayhem and violence,
somehow Twitter will put the blinders on and aid and abet the ‘political’ wing - and the attacks
and killings by the ‘military’ go on and on - for both are the same. TWITTER IS COMPLICIT IN
COUNTLESS ATTACKS AND MURDERS!

The push against Twitter comes amid a larger political backlash against social media
companies over how they handle extremist and terrorist content, or actually how they fail to
handle it, instead inserting their own bias and agenda, which is based on their own ignorance
and head-in-the-sand mentality.

“Social media companies need to be doing ... everything they can to stop this constant threat
of violent extremism, disinformation, terror and hate online that’s attacking our democracy,”
Gottheimer said at the press conference. 

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TWITTER IS VIOLATING THESE LAWS
There are many anti-terrorism / terrorist laws now. Here are a couple of the obvious ones that
social media companies are violating:
U.S. Code § 2339A: Providing material support to terrorists.
U.S. Code § 2339B: Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist
organizations.
Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization,
or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
20 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of
years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the
organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the
organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in
terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal
Years 1988 and 1989).

Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter are vulnerable to federal
criminal prosecution under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, the material support to terrorism statute,
for providing a means for terrorists and their sympathizers to glorify and pursue their
violence on social media.

If a social media provider knows that a terrorist is using

its services (either direct messaging or public posting) to
coordinate or otherwise assist in terrorist attacks, and
fails to subsequently suspend such a user’s account, that
provider should be criminally liable under either 18
U.S.C. § 2339A or § 2339B. Such liability is similar to a
social media provider who knowingly allows a user to
share child pornography over its personal messaging
service, or knowingly allows it to be disseminated on any
of its services.

Terrorist organizations often “operate under the cloak of

a humanitarian or charitable exercise, or are wrapped in
the blanket of religion”. § 2339B went well beyond simply
prohibiting the provision of funds to terrorist groups.
Today, it prohibits the provision (actual, attempted, or
conspired) of material support or resources to a group
designated by the U.S. government as a Foreign
Terrorist Organization, knowing that such organization
has either been so designated or knowing that it either
engages or has engaged in terrorism or terrorist activity.

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 Twitter seems to have no problem with vicious hate towards Jews and Buddhists - WHY?

An obvious photoshopped job.

This is so sickeningly revolting to any Buddhist - but

Twitter doesn’t care! By letting this photo be
tweeted and retweeted Twitter is complicit in
fomenting hatred again Buddhists. In Muslim
countries people believe this evil propaganda.

Famous and much-revered Buddhist

monks heads are inserted onto the
bodies and labeled as prostitutes -
very very insulting to Buddhists.

Shame, Shame on you, Twitter!

By Rick Heizman, October 28, 2019

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