Posted on 10/11/2014 9:01:13 PM PDT by lbryce
After repeatedly suspending the Twitter accounts of groups associated with ISIS, CEO Dick Costolo revealed that he and his employees had been threatened by the brutal jihadist faction that has carried out and publicized beheadings of journalists and care workers.
Costolo revealed the death threats during an interview with author and Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson during a conversation at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit.
According to a post on Vanity Fair’s website Friday, Costolo said the threats for the “assassination” of both management and staff at the San Francisco-based company were shocking, saying, “that’s a jarring thing for anyone to deal with.”
The threats highlight the tricky role Twitter plays in facilitating dialogue online. The company often takes fire for giving a voice to sexual harassers, terrorists, and other evil-doers. Tension continues between those who believe all speech should be allowed and those who believe that Twitter should block some material—such as ISIS video showing the beheading of journalists.
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As ISIS gets more audacious with time, something like this is bound to happen.
They probably tried to sign up for a new acct. That would make anyone want to kill him.
Perhaps Twitter CEO Dick Costolo should have considered all that before giving his all to help the libs that CREATED ISIS.
Too bad so sad.
He supported Obama.
Aw, who’s afraid of the JV?
What does he have to fear from a religion of peace? Tracts left on his doorstep?
The left-leaning (due to RAT shakedowns) business leaders have decided on a vibrant new business model: force everyone onto food stamps ($500/mo) so those consumers can afford to buy their consumer crap ($500/mo).
Personally, I am convinced we are past the point of no return. That being the case, WHEN the SHTF, I can only hope that no remaining decent American gives their life in an attempt to protect those that brought the hell on us all. Let them taste fully the fruits they grew.
Any effort should go to protecting ones own family, friends and other decent people. Let the idiots fend for themselves.
Cut off their Twitter account. /s
We are at the crossroads at the point of no return. The Left has brought every evil gadget, kitchen-sink surge, against us.
The fact that they have shut down VoterID in Wisconsin and Texas (two states that have destroyed the leftist statist RAT argument, and won) means they’re about out of ammo, and are Hail Marying it.
Jarrett convinced them the Marxist Plank would carry them, along with Maestro Databases: polls are showing otherwise.
This is the Highest Water Mark of the RATS believing their own bullshit, and their base is running away because the RATS have now immediately placed the citizenry’s health, wealth, security in sudden and concrete danger by DESIGN.
Like Styx said: The News is out, the Jig is up, they’ve finally found me!
Jig before News correction.
The Renegade Who had it made, retrieved for a bounty!
I get that people want to believe there is still ‘hope’. There isn’t. Ebola will see to that along with the Mex invasion, the full media/education control and of course, the judiciary.
History shows this has all happened before. People will survive it but without their BMW and big screen. When the survivors rebuild, they need to make the exile of any remaining libs and their enablers Job 1. Then perhaps they can get another 250 year run before history is again forgotten.
I am NOT saying we should give up. to the contrary, we should fight every inch of the way. Because the fighters today will emerge as the leaders tomorrow.
I actually have quite a darker solution than you, but I will keep it to myself.
The point is, the electorate - with zero’s help, it seems!, go figure - has turned away from the RATS, hopefully because they realize all the gay marriage in the world doesn’t help if you’re dead or living under a bridge or dumpster-diving.
You can look at our ‘Republican’ leadership and see in their faces who are the Zombies. You can also look in the faces of ours that are going to be-head them soon.
I’ve been a worrier all my life - ask anybody who knows me - but this is the tightest clinch we’ve been in.... and the Left bringing out the long knives tells me we’re going to win, flak/target analogy.
I truly hope you are right and I am wrong. But I think we can all agree that Barry is indeed gonna get him some ‘change’.
As to the following comment...
“I actually have quite a darker solution than you”
Don’t bet the farm on it Hoss ;) Mine involves penal colonies, heavy metal, Thorazine and Pay Per View. At first...
Mine includes vaporization.
You sold a reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity to an unlicensed cephalopoid, you POS.
He looked OK to me.
If you vape them, then where does the cash/work come from to rebuild America from all the damage they did?
See, my solution pus all the libs and their enablers in Northern Mexico, building the 100 foot above/below ground steel wall and in the mines getting the raw materials to do it.
The NSA American survelience system is repurposed to a 24/7 broadcast enterprise where the rest of us can buy hourly blocks of viewing that in turn, funds the rebuild of America.
the Libs and their enablers are dosed with Thor to a point where they are barely able to hold their power tools and equipped with a GoPro to record the fun.
Schools have this broadcast free and it is mandatory viewing.
As to MIB quotes to live by I offer my favorite by far. This has so much truth in it that It’s hard to believe it came from Hollywood and I use it in serious conversations often.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.
Like I said, I have no plans for the Left except to export them back to Austria or Holland or wherever the hell they were kicked out of.
They know this. This is why they’ve gone Ballistic in Wisconsin, and trying now in Texas. They’ve captured California, Florida, the entire East Coast, and we are their last frontier sights.
‘Oh, that was your Auntie? And I guess this is your uncle? Big soft spot you got there Big Bug?’
While we grist about Soros and Harry Reid agonizes about Koch, nobody is worrying about Carlos Slim, and that’s whose bought off just about fu*king everybody. Major markets (agriculture, food retail, communications) are sucking up his cash to move Mexicans out of Mexico.
Why? If reason had a hand, we’d all be investing in Mexico, not the other way around.
ISIS is becoming more and more bold because we have a weak leader.
Even our air strikes are lighter than they should be, and we won’t even give the Kurds all the weapons and ammo they need. Disgusting.
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