Governments have set up departments to forward requests for takedowns directly to Facebook, sidestepping whatever due process they usually would require to get

Governments have set up departments to forward requests for takedowns directly to Facebook, sidestepping whatever due process they usually would require to get a court order: "Watchdogs say that this coordination between governments and online platforms lacks transparency and operates through an alternative enforcement mechanism that denies due process of law. In the vast majority of cases, the Cyber Unit doesn’t file a court order based on Israeli criminal law and go through the traditional legal process to take down online posts. Instead, the Unit makes appeals to the platform’s content moderation policies and community standards. The enforcement of these policies though can be selective, devoid of different cultural contexts, and flexible to the interests of the powerful." https://prospect.org/world/how-secretive-cyber-unit-censors-palestinians/ https://prospect.org/world/how-secretive-cyber-unit-censors-...