Ok, but now replace flat earthers with people advocating and organizing meetings for people interested in joining ISIS.
Why do we want a world where platforms protect videos promoting and glorifying beheadings, exactly?
Why do we want a world where platforms protect videos promoting and glorifying beheadings, exactly?
To play devil's advocate, "objectively" these beheadings are still happening somewhere in the world. It's an undeniable truth even though you don't want to see the evidence for it. For a lot of people this is their flat earth. No evidence means it's not happening.
Why not allow the content to be seen, let the world be horrified that there are people driven to become like this, and try to understand what led them to do those things?
At the time, conservative media outlets seemed predominantly critical that American platforms weren't censoring enough content. Even if that content wasn't actually illegal to publish under US law.
Here's a 2014 article from the conservative site WorldNetDaily, for example:
"ISIS-branded merchandise sold on Amazon, Facebook"
https://www.wnd.com/2014/09/isis-branded-merchandise-sold-on...
Quotes from the article:
Dave Gaubatz, author of “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” contends Facebook and other social media sites have a responsibility to shut down the forums used to market radical Islam and mobilize Islamic youth.
“I am a defender of the U.S. Constitution but the Constitution was not designed for enemies of America,” said Gaubatz, a former U.S. Air Force investigator.
“We must stop jihad online because these groups target our children through social media,” he told Fox News.
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“ISIS is more than likely not producing shirts but indirectly they are benefiting from it,” Scotty Neil, a former Green Beret who founded Operator, a clothing company geared toward special ops soldiers, told Fox News. “I don’t think that T-shirt company X is sending the Islamic State funds, but people wearing these shirts are making an outward statement and that often starts a dialogue and debate that furthers their message.”