Now, this article is very interesting because of something that happened
to me with Facebook today. Remember that article from Socialist Action
that I posted this morning about the coup in Chile, the first 9/11?
Well, at the bottom of each Socialist Action article are some links to
several social media sites where one can post the article. Since I have
both a Twitter and a Facebook account and since it is very easy, every
time I post a Socialist Action article here I also post it on Twitter
and Facebook. This morning, though, when I tried to post that article to
Facebook it wouldn't post. I tried it several times and all I got was
some kind of notification that what I was trying to post was blocked for
security reasons. I finally gave up. Then I just now read this article
and I wanted to tell about this morning's incident, so I just went back
to Socialist Action to try again so that I could get the exact wording
of the notification. Well, I couldn't get the wording because it worked
this time and the article has now been posted to my Facebook timeline.
But I do wonder what the so-called security issues were with that
article this morning.
On 9/12/2016 6:13 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Facebook and Israeli Government Team Up to Censor Posts
Published on
Monday, September 12, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Facebook and Israeli Government Team Up to Censor Posts
Justice minister says Facebook already complies with 95 percent of Israel's
take-down requests
by
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Computer screens display the Facebook sign-in screen in this photo
illustration taken in Golden, Colorado, United States July 28, 2015. (Photo:
Reuters/Rick Wilking/File Photo)
Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views as
inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday.
"The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be
directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation,"
Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept.
The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between two Israeli officials,
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, and
a delegation of Facebook representatives.
Erdan in July accused Facebook of being a "monster" that "sabotages the work
of the Israeli police" and "sets a very high bar for removing inciteful
content and posts."
Shaked, however, said Monday that the social media site has complied with 95
percent of Israeli requests to take down content.
"Just as ISIS [Islamic State] video clips are being monitored and removed
from the network, we want them to take the same action against Palestinian
material that incites terrorism," Shaked said at the International
Conference on Counter-terrorism near Tel Aviv.
Erdan, for his part, said Monday, "The internet can't be allowed to become
an incubator for terrorism."
Reuters reports that "Shaked said that in the past year, Israel had issued
120 indictments against Palestinians and 50 against Israeli citizens-both
Jews and Arabs-for Facebook postings that contain incitement." That adds up
to 70 percent of the indictments being against Palestinians.
Haaretz adds:
[Isareli newspaper] Yediot Aharonoth on Monday reported that Shaked and
Erdan had proposed to the Facebook executives that the company treat words
like "intifada," "stabbing," "Nazis" and expressions such as "death to Jews"
and "death to Arabs" as grounds for removing content. They also called for
the same policy towards videos inciting viewers to stabbing attacks or
containing anti-Semitic caricatures.
A Facebook spokesperson said of the meeting, "We came to listen and see if
can be do better. We have zero tolerance for terrorism."
Bloomberg reports: "Many of the Palestinians arrested after attacking
Israelis in the past year said they were influenced by content on Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube and other online platforms, according to a statement from
Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked."
However, Greenwald points out, "it's actually very common for Israelis to
use Facebook to urge violence against Palestinians, including settlers
urging 'vengeance' when there is an attack on an Israeli."
Yet, he argues, deletion of such comments is unlikely. "Facebook is a
private company, with a legal obligation to maximize profit, and so it will
interpret very slippery concepts such as 'hate speech' and 'inciting
violence' to please those who wield the greatest power."
The news comes on the heels of Facebook being criticized for censoring posts
containing the iconic 1972 photo of children, including a naked young girl,
fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam. Facebook book ultimately reversed its
position, saying that it recognized "the history and global importance of
this image in documenting a particular moment in time."
"Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance,"
Facebook said in its statement," the value of permitting sharing outweighs
the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to
reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed."
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Facebook and Israeli Government Team Up to Censor Posts
Published on
Monday, September 12, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Facebook and Israeli Government Team Up to Censor Posts
Justice minister says Facebook already complies with 95 percent of Israel's
take-down requests
by
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
. 4 Comments
.
. Computer screens display the Facebook sign-in screen in this photo
illustration taken in Golden, Colorado, United States July 28, 2015. (Photo:
Reuters/Rick Wilking/File Photo)
. Israel and Facebook will team up to delete content the country views
as inciting violence, the Associated Press reports Monday.
. "The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will
be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli
occupation," Glenn Greenwald writes at The Intercept.
. The development follows a meeting in Tel Aviv between two Israeli
officials, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet
Shaked, and a delegation of Facebook representatives.
. Erdan in July accused Facebook of being a "monster" that "sabotages
the work of the Israeli police" and "sets a very high bar for removing
inciteful content and posts."
Shaked, however, said Monday that the social media site has complied with 95
percent of Israeli requests to take down content.
"Just as ISIS [Islamic State] video clips are being monitored and removed
from the network, we want them to take the same action against Palestinian
material that incites terrorism," Shaked said at the International
Conference on Counter-terrorism near Tel Aviv.
Erdan, for his part, said Monday, "The internet can't be allowed to become
an incubator for terrorism."
Reuters reports that "Shaked said that in the past year, Israel had issued
120 indictments against Palestinians and 50 against Israeli citizens-both
Jews and Arabs-for Facebook postings that contain incitement." That adds up
to 70 percent of the indictments being against Palestinians.
Haaretz adds:
[Isareli newspaper] Yediot Aharonoth on Monday reported that Shaked and
Erdan had proposed to the Facebook executives that the company treat words
like "intifada," "stabbing," "Nazis" and expressions such as "death to Jews"
and "death to Arabs" as grounds for removing content. They also called for
the same policy towards videos inciting viewers to stabbing attacks or
containing anti-Semitic caricatures.
A Facebook spokesperson said of the meeting, "We came to listen and see if
can be do better. We have zero tolerance for terrorism."
Bloomberg reports: "Many of the Palestinians arrested after attacking
Israelis in the past year said they were influenced by content on Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube and other online platforms, according to a statement from
Erdan and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked."
However, Greenwald points out, "it's actually very common for Israelis to
use Facebook to urge violence against Palestinians, including settlers
urging 'vengeance' when there is an attack on an Israeli."
Yet, he argues, deletion of such comments is unlikely. "Facebook is a
private company, with a legal obligation to maximize profit, and so it will
interpret very slippery concepts such as 'hate speech' and 'inciting
violence' to please those who wield the greatest power."
The news comes on the heels of Facebook being criticized for censoring posts
containing the iconic 1972 photo of children, including a naked young girl,
fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam. Facebook book ultimately reversed its
position, saying that it recognized "the history and global importance of
this image in documenting a particular moment in time."
"Because of its status as an iconic image of historical importance,"
Facebook said in its statement," the value of permitting sharing outweighs
the value of protecting the community by removal, so we have decided to
reinstate the image on Facebook where we are aware it has been removed."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
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