April 21, 2009
Wordpress, YouTube Execs in Iraq. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Good News: Executives from Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Wordpress are "in Iraq to help country use new media."
Bad News: Wordpress still most popular blogging platform and free hosting service for terrorists and their supporters. In fact, Wordpress is now the platform of choice for al Qaeda's Somali affiliate, the al-Shabaab (no link on purpose).
And the Google owned YouTube continues to be a major distribution node for terrorist produced media.
Advice: How about cleaning up your own houses before lecturing Iraqis about how awesome technology is?
Also, given that much of the social networking, blogging, and YouTubing coming out of the Middle East is full of vile antisemetism, anti-Americanism, and pro-Islamist sentiment, why would we want to help them become more proficient at using these tools?
