The U.S. government is pushing Twitter to delete accounts that are linked to the Taliban. Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Joe Lieberman, and his aides are leading the social media censorship crusade against Twitter. Some of the Taliban’s tweets include information about attacks, accurate accounts of unfolding attacks, and fabricated reports of casualties.

Senator Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has introduced new legislation that would make the publication of any classified intelligence source illegal. The proposed legislation is known as the Securing Human Intelligence and Enforcing Law Dissemination (SHIELD) Act,

Senator Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, had slightly pressured Amazon.com to remove Wikileaks from their cloud servers. Wikileaks was hit with a DDoS attack so they moved their cables over to Amazon’s cloud servers.