Congress Asks Twitter To Censor Taliban Tweets

Joe Lieberman is heading up a movement in the US Congress that would like to see Twitter censor the Taliban’s tweets, in order to “eliminate violent Islamist extremism propaganda” on social media.

The Taliban has been prolific on Twitter, but their account tweets a mixture of up-to-the-minute information about NATO attacks, as well as vile anti-Western propaganda.

The Telegraph is reporting that an aide for Senator Joe Lieberman has confirmed that he and a group of senators are asking Twitter to close specific Taliban-related accounts.

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