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X suspends Al Qassam Brigades account after it reaches 150k followers

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14 pointsbluefishinit16 comments

Putting ideology, politics, Elon Musk and everything else aside... surely there are simply legal implications for hosting the account of a notorious terrorist group.

For the US, only Hamas, the parent organization is, not IQB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades

From your own link:

> the military wing of the Palestinian organization Hamas

I don't really care if the US government tiptoes around that or not, by any reasonable definition (targeting civilians with random violence to achieve political goals) they are terrorists.

You were the one to mention "legal implications", are you a legislator?

There are countries in which 'X' does business other than the US, which incidentally does consider Hamas and its military wing to be terrorists. It recognizes Hamas "as a whole" to be a terror group, and Qassam Brigades are a part of that whole.

For example the entire EU recogizes the al-Qassam Brigades to be terrorists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades

I don't need to be a legislator, because I'm simply reporting the facts rather than seeking to twist or invent them. It's simply a fact that there would be legal implications to knowingly hosting a recognized terrorist organization, this is not controversial.

You can even agree with the aims of the terrorist organization, believing that they should be called something else, but still recognize the legal landscape.

It would definitely be politics to consider them a terrorist group and not resistance fighters.

You don't have to agree with it, but the reality is that the EU, US and many others do recognize Hamas (either entirely, or the al-Qassam Brigades in particular) as terrorists.

There are level headed, academic definitions of terrorism. Not everything that touches politics, is itself political.

Funny how those definitions tend to align with the authors preconceived notions and interests

Would love to hear your take on this

They should not be suspended. The IDF regularly posts misinformation, violent and genocidal rhetoric and just insane things. My personal opinion is that the Al Qassam account would have been more professional and offered a more accurate view of the resistance.

Not in the US.

Famously 'X' also does business in the EU, as I've said below.

Famously 'X' is able to hide content in certain locations and hacker news comments have to stand on their own.

Given the perpetual trouble they seem to be in with EU regulators, I'd say that their attempts at hiding are sub-par at best. I also see no indication that this account was hidden in the EU.

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