This post is totally political. Having very little to do with technology. And the post completely ignores nuances and objectivity. It has already chosen a side.
I guess because that's hip in the woke liberal era.
I guess because that's hip in the woke liberal era.
If we can talk and about Indian and Nigerian, or Chinese censorship against the Uyghurs and the Tiananmen square masacre, then we can talk about Israeli censorship war against the Palestinians as well.
Also Computer Ethics is part of the Computer Science curriculum in most colleges, and part of technology. We are not going to solve this conflict here, but we should know where censorship in tech is being used to suppress the voice of a whole population. I was born in a communist country (Albania), and censorship in media was used to suppress the voice of the people in order to prop up a brutal regime.
"In addition to using social media to incriminate Palestinians, Israel has also used it to muzzle us. In 2016, Israel’s then-Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked boasted that, in the previous four-month period, Facebook had complied with 95% of Israel’s requests to remove Palestinian content on the vague basis of “incitement.” A year later, Israel tried to push the “Facebook Bill” through the Knesset, legislation which would force Facebook to remove any content designated as “incitement.” "
Example posts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26217821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23739567
Seems more like Israel is believed to be above criticism and there are active campaigns to silence that criticism.
That’s a pretty hypocritical statement.
This post does not belong in this site because it is more political than related to technology.
Just notice the tone in the article. It screams "politically charged post".
It has very little or nothing to do with technology.
I did not dismiss it for being "woke liberal". I dismissed it because it moves away from the ethics of journalist being objective and seeing nuance. They don't in this case.
And social media is decades old. This post is nowhere near about being a post about technology.
Is telephone directory fraud a post about tech? Telephone is a tech.
In that same way the post rides on reporting on tech but is really a political piece.
The owner (daughter of Eric Schmidt) is probably trying to score brownie points by making Israel the villain. Because they are an easy target and no one minds.
Remember the people who killed Jamal Khasoggi? They came by airplane (also a technology) and coordinated with satphones and cellphones (also technology). That news is not Rest of World material.
Social media is decades old, and if there's any censorship going on, it is comparable to newspaper sensorship and tech is not central (newspapers use computers and internet, so are they tech?).
And since this is controversial, this should not be in HN.