Netiquette IQ, as are so many global communities and Netizens, appalled by the recent terrorist events throughout the world. It goes without saying that any behavior even in one step approaching the actions or on-line communication of these groups can never, ever be justified in even the smallest way.
Although this blog is not political in its underlying principles, it will come out to support the underlying concepts and ethics of Netiquette. In the most extreme instances, as have been cited above and below, there will be the need to eridicate this scourage upon us all.
One day, with the assistance of all responsible internet users, this will become a reality! Let us all continue to make this happen.
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2015-02-20, 22:27
Experts: Winning
internet war is key in ISIS fight
2015-02-20 05:00
Experts
say governments must engage in corporate-style marketing if they are to combat
the Islamic State, which is using slick videos to lure foreign nationals to the
battlefields of Iraq and Syria.
"If
ISIS has a branding and marketing department, where is ours?" said Sasha
Havlicek, the founding chief executive officer of the London-based Institute
for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).
The
think tank has carried out several experiments using Google Ideas, Twitter and
Facebook to try to directly engage with potential recruits - and dissuade them
from joining the brutal jihadist movement.
In
one campaign, ISD released several videos of Abdullah X - a fictional character
who tries to convince young Muslims that following the Islamic State is not the
way forward.
"We
were able to 'hypercharge' that content - inserting him in the very spaces the
extremists were using [...] anchoring this content to extremist Twitter
accounts, posting it on extremist pages, having it pop out whenever you search
for jihad in Syria," said Havlicek.
"And
within a few months, this went from reaching 50 people to 100 000 people of our
target group of individuals searching to go to Syria for jihad," she said.
The
best indicator of success was that ISIS responded by running five pages of
"urgent refutation" of the arguments of Abdullah X, she added.
The
ISD think tank also launched a pilot project using Facebook to "walk back
people from the edge" of extremism by proposing a one on-one chat with
people expressing interest in violent jihad.
"Right
now, only extremist groups and intelligence services are really engaging with
this constituency online," Havlicek said.
The
next step is to see "if see if that outreach can be automated," she
added.
For
that to happen, private companies with well-developed online marketing
strategies can offer that knowledge to associations and activists working
against the ISIS message, Havlicek said.
Counter 'brainwashing'
The
US government is already working to weaken extremist groups online - a digital
blitz involving a State Department team that posts opinion pieces on radical
Islam, cartoons and graphic photos.
One
senior department official told AFP last year that it was akin to guerrilla
warfare.
During
the summit, US President Barack Obama urged local communities in America and
abroad to take the initiative to protect groups who act in the hopes of
"brainwashing young Muslims".
Sessions
on Wednesday highlighted existing anti-extremist programs in Boston,
Minneapolis-Saint Paul and greater Los Angeles, which involve community
policing and other tactics.
The
US State Department announced the appointment of a special counter-terrorism
communications coordinator, Rashad Hussain, but it was unclear what concrete
outcomes there would be.
It
is also going to help students around the world to develop digital content that
counters the extremist message.
Peter
Neumann, the director of the International Centre for the Study of
Radicalisation, says while everyone done so far to counter extremist groups is
"great," it's "only a drop in the ocean."
He
said there has been much talk about removing extremist content from the
internet altogether, but that is not a fail-safe solution.
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