ISIS terrorists have reportedly moved from the micro-blogging service Twitter to the non-profit social network Diasporato post their garbage. The thing is, there's probably no stopping them.
Diaspora is a completely decentralized network that, by its very nature, consists of many small servers for exchanging messages.
According to the service: “There is no central server, and therefore there is no way to manipulate or remove content from any particular node of the network (what we call a “pod”). This may be one of the reasons the network attracted ISIS terrorists.”
Diaspora was founded in 2010 as an anonymous version of Facebook. The network emphasizes that users own their own content and be anonymous, which makes the service ideal for ISIS. The social network uses separate servers, called pods, which are run by their administrators with no central control over what is posted.
The terrorist group, which has seized a swath of territory in the Middle East by exploiting the power vacuum created by the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, has been an active user of Twitter to spread a distorted interpretation of Islamic teachings.
Twitter managed to close the door on the group, shutting down their accounts, following the public execution of journalist James Foley .
Diaspora said they were doing everything they could to prevent terrorists from using site , and have asked their members, as soon as they spot posts from the terrorist group, to immediately inform their local pod, doing what they can from the central ones as well.
