First the Wikipedia, now Orkut: USA Today sounds the alarm this week about jihadists using... orkut. Yes, Google's social networking tool is the current actor in the ongoing drama of terrorism online.
The article is uneven tonally. It likes to use "community" in scare-quotes, despite naming one group number seven thousand (perhaps too large, I admit). There's the classic haunted internet emphasis on the corruption of children. And there's the ominous warning:
These popular Internet services can be used for everything from publicizing a garage band to finding dates to connecting supporters of democracy — or terrorism.
[cue grim music]
But give credit where it's due. The author also gives ample paragraphing to free speech advocates.
EDITED TO ADD: Let's add this to the list of scary Web terror stories:
- al Qaeda vlogging
- Rumsfeld fears being beaten at electronic information warfare
- e-Qaeda (my favorite title so far)
- the jihadist virtual state
(via Jim Lai)
o orkut e uma ferramenta de trabalho com a mais absoluta lisura e transparencia de modo que temos o livre arbitrio para utiliza-lo eu particularmente prefiro amaneira licita,correta,dentro da lei
Posted by: marcos eduardo | November 03, 2006 at 13:06