The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by 2939223 » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 7:59 PM UTC

The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
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Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by msisdead » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

I hope your comment is not removed here but I want to ask you something- do you support 4 year kids being taught "death to Israel"?

Let's see whose comment gets flagged first.

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by dang » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 8:54 PM UTC

msisdead wrote: post #2

I hope your comment is not removed here but I want to ask you something- do you support 4 year kids being taught "death to Israel"? Let's see whose comment gets flagged first.

Please don't take HN threads straight into nationalistic flamewar hell, regardless of what site of what battle you happen to be on. That is emphatically not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by valparaiso » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

Some questions from non-american from Eastern Europe:

1. Why Palestinians celebrated 9/11 attacks on civilians

2. Why Palestinians teach to kill Israelis from the kindergarten

3. Why Palestinians support ISIS and generally jihadists who behead kids/women/elderly people

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by ljasdas » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:00 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #3

msisdead wrote: post #2

I hope your comment is not removed here but I want to ask you something- do you support 4 year kids being taught "death to Israel"? Let's see whose comment gets flagged first.

Please don't take HN threads straight into nationalistic flamewar hell, regardless of what site of what battle you happen to be on. That is emphatically not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Doesn't the same apply to this [1] comment?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645772

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by tiku » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

"For months, the 23-year-old el-Kurd twins had become the faces of Palestinian resistance in Sheikh Jarrah, broadcasting on Twitter and Instagram how they and seven other families refused to be forcibly expelled from their homes by Israeli settlers. "

So there was not really a problem with social media then.

I am hearing that recordings of violence got silenced, thats not weird. If i post a violent video of something, changes are that they are muted also.

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by msisdead » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #3

msisdead wrote: post #2

I hope your comment is not removed here but I want to ask you something- do you support 4 year kids being taught "death to Israel"? Let's see whose comment gets flagged first.

Please don't take HN threads straight into nationalistic flamewar hell, regardless of what site of what battle you happen to be on. That is emphatically not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Except it's easy for you to do a cliched "omg it is Nationalist flamewar" but essentially end up proving my point. Palestinians have no high ground here. You have silenced me for saying what is a fact. Dang you are a tool.

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by dang » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:06 PM UTC

valparaiso wrote: post #4

Some questions from non-american from Eastern Europe: 1. Why Palestinians celebrated 9/11 attacks on civilians 2. Why Palestinians teach to kill Israelis from the kindergarten 3. Why Palestinians support ISIS and generally jihadists who behead kids/women/elderly people

Please don't take HN threads directly into nationalistic/religious/racial flamewar hell. That's exactly the opposite of what this site is for—regardless of how difficult the topic is. A topic being difficult just not justify setting it immediately on fire.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: please stop posting ideological/etc. flamewar comments to HN generally. You've done it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account.

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by ComputerGuru » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

tiku wrote: post #6

"For months, the 23-year-old el-Kurd twins had become the faces of Palestinian resistance in Sheikh Jarrah, broadcasting on Twitter and Instagram how they and seven other families refused to be forcibly expelled from their homes by Israeli settlers. " So there was not really a problem with social media then. I am hearing that recordings of violence got silenced, thats not weird. If i post a violent video of something…

> So there was not really a problem then.

There wasn’t a problem until there was. Just because they weren’t silenced until the issue gained global notoriety outside of the social media bubble doesn’t mean there is no problem.

Re: The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media

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Post by ljasdas » Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:08 PM UTC

tiku wrote: post #6

"For months, the 23-year-old el-Kurd twins had become the faces of Palestinian resistance in Sheikh Jarrah, broadcasting on Twitter and Instagram how they and seven other families refused to be forcibly expelled from their homes by Israeli settlers. " So there was not really a problem with social media then. I am hearing that recordings of violence got silenced, thats not weird. If i post a violent video of something…

The issue is that the social media platforms specifically target silencing Palestinian content. Both Twitter and Facebook attributed it to technical bugs [1] [2] while they kept hiding the content.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/palestinian-facebook-...

[2] https://soyacincau.com/2021/05/17/instagram-twitter-palestin...