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Propagandist article from propagandist website, out of context Look at the real proposal - https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-advances-bill-censoring-crimin
by sharikous 5y ago
Propagandist article from propagandist website, out of context
Look at the real proposal
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-advances-bill-censoring-criminal-social-media-posts/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-advances-bill-censorin...
(Un)surprisingly the right wing parties are the most opposed as the proposal is a regulation against inciting content of the type usually connected to the right.
It's ridiculuous to try to gaslight everything involving Israel as having something to do with the Palestinians.
Interestingly, there is also another proposal, which may interest some HNers, which would compel Facebook et al. to write clearly the reasons for any post removal https://www.timesofisrael.com/minister-floats-hebrew-service-centers-for-social-networks-to-explain-post-deletions/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/minister-floats-hebrew-service...
- boffinAudio 5y agoIt doesn't matter who opposes it. What matters is whether it will pass. And it also matters if it is subsequently used to suppress the speech of a geographically challenged human population based on their religious or political views.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoYou’re taking the opposite point of view, probably the truth is in the middle but this law > Proposed law, allowing courts to remove content that incites violence or ‘endangers mental health,’ is bad anyway, for Palestinian, Israeli and freedom.
- yessirwhatever 5y agoWeird that you think this website is propaganda but timesofisrael is not. It’s clear that a law to grant Israeli court the ability to request removal of user content can be used to remove any speech that a government doesn’t like, which could be the right wingers when left is in power, left wingers when right is in power, or pro-Palestinian-rights focused content when really either of them is in power (feel free to disagree with this last one, but it’s not the point). Specifically when Naftali Bennett is moving rapidly to expand settlements https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/world/middleeast/israel-settlements-west-bank.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/world/middleeast/israel-s...
- sharikous 5y agoI agree with you. The law is bad from a freedom of speech perspective. The framing, however, is very disingenuous. Edit: regarding the propaganda claim. Yes Times of Israel is for me much more balanced than that website. I guess it's subjective but I could read the two and the level of discourse is very different. Ymmv
- weatherlite 5y agoTimesofisrael is a propaganda website? How so? It's very well balanced, I'd call it centrist-leftish.