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> “Israeli security agencies monitor Facebook and send the company posts they consider incitement. Facebook has responded by removing most of them.” Maybe beca

> “Israeli security agencies monitor Facebook and send the company posts they consider incitement. Facebook has responded by removing most of them.” Maybe because they are incitement? This kind of thing isn’t incitement? https://goo.gl/images/oknvLC https://goo.gl/images/oknvLC many other examples catalogued here: http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Social-media-playing-central-role-in-Palestinian-incitement-during-terror-wave-426090 http://m.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Social-media-playin... the incitement to violence is real. Love how Greenwald glosses over this as insignificant. In his world view, Israelis should just accept social media posts that incite murdering them, because Israelis are big bad guys.

saagarjha 9y ago
I believe the article was trying to show how these rules were being applied unevenly, rather than trying to legitimize incitement.
- linkmotif 9y ago
  Maybe, except this is what Glen Greenwald writes instead: > Last March, Facebook briefly shut down the Facebook page of the political party, Fatah, followed by millions, “because of an old photo posted of former leader Yasser Arafat holding a rifle.” which is on the soft side of what Israel contests is incitement (see my post above, or Google for more examples, there are many).
  - ffgg 9y ago
    A dead dude with a rifle is incitement? That’s a laugh. In the US you can go to a rifle range and buy targets with the president’s face on it. Then you upload that to YouTube and get hundreds of likes. FB is not offended by a dead Arab with a gun. It’s scared of other things, but you’ll have to re-read the article to find out
    - linkmotif 9y ago
      > A dead dude with a rifle Yeah, like Jefferson Davis, or any other dead dude with a rifle used to incite violence. Nothing new here. Nothing to take lightly. > dead Arab with a gun Why are you trivializing Arabs? Much less dead Arabs? I don’t think Arabs would appreciate being taken so lightly. I don’t take them lightly. They’re serious people. > That’s a laugh This is exactly what I’m talking about. Glossing over and making trivial things like this. It’s not funny. It’s real and it’s serious. I’m certain you wouldn’t be laughing if it was your killing being incited.

saagarjha 9y ago

I believe the article was trying to show how these rules were being applied unevenly, rather than trying to legitimize incitement.

linkmotif 9y ago
Maybe, except this is what Glen Greenwald writes instead: > Last March, Facebook briefly shut down the Facebook page of the political party, Fatah, followed by millions, “because of an old photo posted of former leader Yasser Arafat holding a rifle.” which is on the soft side of what Israel contests is incitement (see my post above, or Google for more examples, there are many).
- ffgg 9y ago
  A dead dude with a rifle is incitement? That’s a laugh. In the US you can go to a rifle range and buy targets with the president’s face on it. Then you upload that to YouTube and get hundreds of likes. FB is not offended by a dead Arab with a gun. It’s scared of other things, but you’ll have to re-read the article to find out
  - linkmotif 9y ago
    > A dead dude with a rifle Yeah, like Jefferson Davis, or any other dead dude with a rifle used to incite violence. Nothing new here. Nothing to take lightly. > dead Arab with a gun Why are you trivializing Arabs? Much less dead Arabs? I don’t think Arabs would appreciate being taken so lightly. I don’t take them lightly. They’re serious people. > That’s a laugh This is exactly what I’m talking about. Glossing over and making trivial things like this. It’s not funny. It’s real and it’s serious. I’m certain you wouldn’t be laughing if it was your killing being incited.