{"id":2674,"date":"2022-01-27T06:10:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/israels-facebook-law-the-news-international\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T06:10:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T05:10:51","slug":"israels-facebook-law-the-news-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monblogeur.tech\/index.php\/2022\/01\/27\/israels-facebook-law-the-news-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s \u2018Facebook Law\u2019 &#8211; The News International"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cfbc967f0983488262956e73eca9483a\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3859091246952232\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- blok -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3859091246952232\" data-ad-slot=\"1334354390\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and suppress online content. This was in 2016, and the bill was introduced by Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party rival, Gideon Sa\u2019ar.  .ads_between_content{  \theight:auto;   \twidth:auto;  \tclear: both;  \ttext-align: center;  }  .ads_between_content .story_ads{  \t  }  \/*@media (max-width:600px){  \t.ads_between_content{  \t\tfloat:none;  \t\tmargin:0px auto;  \t\ttext-align: center;  \t}  }*\/   <\/p>\n<div class=\"ads_between_content\" style=\"min-width: 336px;min-height: 280px;margin:10px auto\">\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1523347863262-14' class=\"story_ads\">  googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(&lsquo;div-gpt-ad-1523347863262-14&rsquo;); });  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some analysts argued that Netanyahu had feared that a law aimed at suppressing Palestinian freedom of speech online could be exploited by his enemies to control his own speech and incitement. Now that Netanyahu is no longer in the picture, the bill is back, and so is Sa\u2019ar.<br \/>Gideon Sa\u2019ar is currently Israel\u2019s justice minister and deputy prime minister. While his boss, Naftali Bennett, is moving rapidly to expand settlements and to worsen already horrific realities for Palestinians on the ground, Sa\u2019ar is expanding the Israeli military occupation of Palestinians to the digital realm. What is known as the \u2018Facebook Law\u2019 is set to grant \u2018Israeli courts the power to demand the removal of user-generated content on social media content platforms that can be perceived as inflammatory or as harming \u2018the security of the state,\u2019 or the security of people or the security of the public.\u2019<br \/>According to a December 30 statement by the Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition (PDRC) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), Israeli censorship of Palestinian content online has deepened since 2016, when Sa\u2019ar\u2019s bill was first introduced.<br \/>In their statement, the two organizations highlighted the fact that Israel\u2019s so-called Cyber Unit had submitted 2,421 requests to social media companies to delete Palestinian content in 2016. That number has grown exponentially since, to the extent that the Cyber Unit alone has requested the removal of more than 20,000 Palestinian items. PDRC and PHROC suggest that the new legislation, which was already approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on December 27, \u201cwould only strengthen the relationship between the Cyber Unit and social media companies.\u201d<br \/>Unfortunately, that relationship is already strong, at least with Facebook, which routinely censors Palestinian content and has been heavily criticized by Human Rights Watch and other organizations. After examining the numerous allegations of Facebook censorship, Deborah Brown, the senior digital rights researcher and advocate at HRW, concluded that \u201cFacebook has suppressed content posted by Palestinians and their supporters speaking out about human rights issues in Israel and Palestine.\u201d<br \/>Facebook\u2019s involvement in Israel\u2019s efforts aimed at silencing Palestinian online voices that call for justice, freedom and end of the occupation, is itself situated in an agreement the company had reached with Israel in September 2016. Then, the Israeli government announced that it had signed an agreement with the social media giant \u201cto work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.\u201d Within days, the accounts of prominent Palestinian journalists and activists were reportedly being deleted.<br \/>Israel\u2019s latest \u2018Facebook Law\u2019 does not just pertain to controlling content on Facebook-related platforms, including Instagram and others. According to a Haaretz editorial published on December 29, the impact of this particular bill is far-reaching, as it will grant District Court judges throughout the country the power to remove posts, not only from Facebook and other social media outlets, \u201cbut from any website at all\u201d.<br \/>Unsurprisingly, Israel\u2019s censorship of Palestinian content is justified under the typical pretense of protecting Israel\u2019s \u2018national security\u2019. We all know how Israel interprets this elusive concept to include anything from a Palestinian calling for Israel to be held accountable for its crimes in the occupied territories, to another demanding the end of Israeli apartheid to a third writing a poem. A case in point was the humiliating imprisonment of Palestinian poet, Dareen Tatour. The latter, an Israeli citizen, was thrown in jail in 2015 per court order for writing a short poem entitled \u2018Resist, My People, Resist Them\u2019.<br \/>Judging from past experience, undoubtedly, the \u2018Facebook Law\u2019 would almost exclusively target Palestinians. Moreover, judging from Israel\u2019s previous successes, many digital and social media companies would comply with Israel\u2019s demands of censoring Palestinians everywhere.<br \/>In its January 11 report, the Arab Center for Social Media Advancement \u2013 7Amleh \u2013 detailed some of the practices that Israel engages in to monitor, silence, and spy on Palestinians. 7Amleh\u2019s report, entitled \u2018Hashtag Palestine 2021\u2019, discusses the increased use of surveillance technologies, especially in the context of a proposed Israeli law that would expand the use of facial recognition cameras in public spaces. It is worth noting that such technologies have already been used against Palestinians at Israeli military checkpoints throughout the West Bank for at least two years.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted: \u2018How Israel\u2019s \u2018Facebook Law\u2019 Plans to Control All Palestinian Content Online\u2019<br \/>Courtesy: Counterpunch.org<br \/>Just like the trickle-down economics of a generation ago, stakeholder capitalism provides a moral justification for&#8230;<br \/>As Belarus and Poland argue inexorably and play the blame game, it is obvious that the real victims of the&#8230;<br \/>It has become increasingly hard to write about Pakistan and what has become of our society, our politics and our&#8230;<br \/>Pakistan has had a dire record of providing women with their rights to inheritance and property. Even though the right&#8230;<br \/>A nation that regularly quarrels with its constitution requires immediate treatment of its social, political and moral&#8230;<br \/>The writer is a finance\/economics professional.Pakistan and the IMF \u2013 a love story where the partners seem to be&#8230;<br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2022. The News International, All Rights Reserved | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/contact-us\" style=\"color: #323232\">Contact Us<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/writers\" style=\"color: #323232\">Authors<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/print\/928129-israel-s-facebook-law\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is ironic that even former right-wing Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had rejected a Knesset (Israeli Parliament) bill which proposed to give the government greater power to control and suppress online content. 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