Mother Jones: Does Banning the Taliban From Social Media Actually Help Afghans?

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"The logic of this crackdown has been basically that the Taliban is bad—and bad things shouldn’t be on social media because they encourage such behavior. It has been pushed for by certain hawkish extremism researchers and some journalists. As one of the proponents of that argument, the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit, argued in a statement to reporters, the Taliban represents the “'worst of the worst in [online] terrorist material.'"

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August 31, 2021
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