Social Media Hijaking

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/24/isis-twitter-youtube-message-social-media-jihadi It is no question that social media is a powerful force in our world today. Hashtags, posts, online videos, forums, blogs, and status updates are often used to brighten our day or make us think our voice might be heard. What happens however, when terrorist groups like ISIS gets caught piggybacking everyone's favorite cat videos to promote their extremist views? This presents a significant dilemma for the social media companies. Filtering content will cause users to use other, un-filtered social media services, but not filtering the content will allow terrorist organizations to spread their messages. So, how does a company like Twitter determine what content should be allowed and what content should not? Luckily in the case of the ISIS content, the authorities and social media giants, are searching out the criminals posting these videos and hashtags. Ethically, twitter and youtube should be searching to remove this content, but where do they draw the line at what to remove and what to keep? What or who determines if what I write is good or bad? The government? Public opinion? In a world where right and wrong are a point of view, this becomes a really hard question to answer.