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Why America Is Losing The Online War With ISIS
Business Insider ^ | October 6, 2014 | Jeff Bardin

Posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:08 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog

Every month, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, recruits up to 3,400 people via a well-organized and highly successful social media and online campaign. That’s 3,400 potential fighters or homegrown terrorists that are newly minted each month by the world’s most dangerous jihadist militant group.

Sites like Facebook also know very well who the ISIS members are, yet little is done to remove these accounts. Shutting down a terrorist’s social media account can be accomplished in a few ways - from getting the site to do it for you, by pointing out how the person(s) have violated its terms of use policy, or by taking over the account directly and blocking the original owners from using it.

While the US is not shutting them down, it is aggressively monitoring them, but not in any organized or controlled way.

It is time for the US to take the lead in disrupting ISIS’s online networks, just as it is doing all that it can to disrupt the terrorist organization’s physical operations.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; isis; islam; twitter
Correction: The US is NOT doing "all that it can" to disrupt the physical operations of ISIS. I have my own opinion on why it's being handled this way, and I think it is for the same reason Obama doesn't shut down the ISIS online operations.
1 posted on 10/08/2014 5:32:08 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog
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To: fivecatsandadog

Obola will NEVER go after his “sons”, IS, whom
he created with McCain (Arizona for slavery).


2 posted on 10/08/2014 5:34:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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It's not just Obama. It's the whole uniparty DC gang. ISIS is a direct result of regime change by both GWB and Obama and the ptb are still playing it for Saudi Arabia's agenda, which they've been bought and paid for to support.

JMHO

3 posted on 10/08/2014 5:37:54 AM PDT by grania
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> Sites like Facebook also know very well who the ISIS members are, yet little is done to remove these accounts. Shutting down a terrorist’s social media account can be accomplished in a few ways - from getting the site to do it for you, by pointing out how the person(s) have violated its terms of use policy, or by taking over the account directly and blocking the original owners from using it.

The rumor is the Feds pay Zuckerberg to have access to the FB accounts. They could should them down anytime they wanted to though I’m of the same opinion as to why they don’t. Our government has been infiltrated at the highest levels by the Muslim Brotherhood and the 47 % are too stupid and uneducated about his background and what he is doing to this country neither do they care as long as their check is in the mail and their government handouts are there.


4 posted on 10/08/2014 5:38:16 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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Good grief, 3400 a MONTH!! The civilized world has a big, big problem which it fails to acknowledge.
5 posted on 10/08/2014 5:46:25 AM PDT by iontheball
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I must be missing something here. 34 or 3400, what difference does it make?? Get them ALL to the ME and then kill them.

Why?? Do you want them over here at home, KILLING US AT THE MALL like Kenya???

Hell, GIVE THEM FREE TICKETS!!!!


6 posted on 10/08/2014 6:05:01 AM PDT by Flintlock
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We are not fighting a war so how can we lose it?


7 posted on 10/08/2014 6:26:28 AM PDT by puppypusher ( The World is going to the dogs.)
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I have brought direct evidence of criminals trolling on Facebook to Facebook management, and they’ve done absolutely jack squat. Facebook is Evil!


8 posted on 10/08/2014 6:40:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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