Hamas Twitter: Is it against the law?

Christian organization requires Twitter to remove Hamas from the service account, because he claims he is giving the stage a violation of U.S. law
Is Twitter breaking the law by allowing Hamas to sing with the service micro - blogging her? At least think Christian organization pro - Israel "Christians United for Israel." Organization, more than a million members, issued a petition calling on Twitter to block Hamas from using the service.
Hamas is defined by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization in 1997, and therefore, according to the Christian organization, Twitter breaking the law by providing a communications equipment. "Hamas supplying a Twitter account, you provide an important service for communications equipment highly efficient, that functions as a central tool a mission to terrorize the Israeli people, to use civilian casualties to gain political points," said the petition. "Hamas approval to use Twitter contradict the conditions of your use, limit service to one who is causing it not to provide services under the laws of the United States, and prohibit use for unlawful purposes." Great authors require Twitter to keep laws of the United States and close the accounts of Hamas, then fine - to - Qassam and other account-related organization.


Terrorism Twitter. Hamas Account

"This is a difficult question of entering into the core of modern interpretation of the" material support "of modern media environment," he said to The Daily Dot Roy's. Gutterman, director of the Center for Freedom of Expression at the University of Syracuse. "The question is whether Twitter breaking the law when it provides a stage. Certain cases is an open question, but did not examine whether Twitter could be treated the same body provided communications equipment to a terrorist organization."
Hamas AlqassamBrigade Account publish tweets on Twitter can certainly be considered a violation of the terms of use Twitter, because they have a call to violence, such as "Brigade to - Qassam always ready to crush your head." Gutterman indicates that your organization might actually protected under the U.S. Freedom of expression - If there is a section that deals with organization policies without using violence. He also points out that Twitter users in other groups the United States considers a terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, for example, and Twitter could claim to total provides a platform for expressing political opinions.

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