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YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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That's why we have Peertube and your personal (not hosted by a corp) website. It's amazing how people forgot to use the internet in exchange for "easier" UX.

We're in an attention economy. You don't post on Youtube for preservation, you post there to reach an audience so people know what's going on. If you're not the POTUS you don't have the luxury to use an alternative site and not be utterly ignored.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

>but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things

You describe a laradox. If Jimmy Wales didn't say it, you never would have ended up making this comment. And thus attention to the matter that there are even edit wars on Gaza would be suppressed.

We're a social species, so attaching a familiar name or face will always get more attention. You can even observe this on Reddit in how including a person holding the artwork (male or female) instead of the art alone results in more upvotes. so the face doesn't even need a reputation behind it.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #100

There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

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The UN Genocide Convention defines it as:

acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Reducing the population isn't required. Intent and acts are tested against the legal framework.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #100

There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

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The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide does not require that perpetrators are successful in reducing the population of the targeted group, only that they "intend to destroy [it], in whole or in part" and take any of five specific categories of action with that intent.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #100

There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

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Genocide has a specific meaning

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #100

There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

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That has nothing to do with what a genocide is predicated on.

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post #100

There was an article yesterday about Jimmy Wales commenting on edit wars on the Wikipedia entry for Genocide in Gaza (or similar title). The article didn't indicate his taking one side or the other, but I'd prefer if people didn't use name-recognition to influence such things (yes, even if they take the same side as me because others will do the same in the other direction). Fwiw, I downloaded a torrent of footage do…

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> when the population is growing

Well, was. Your chart ends in 2024. It doesn't cite a source, so I'm curious about when in 2024 that number pulls; start (just a few months into the war) or finish?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/gaza-population-fall...

> Population has declined by about 160,000 since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, official Palestinian statistics agency says.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #11

That's why we have Peertube and your personal (not hosted by a corp) website. It's amazing how people forgot to use the internet in exchange for "easier" UX.

> your personal (not hosted by a corp) website I'm not sure that's enough. A few years ago there were some set of websites that wanted less censorship than the main corporate sites (or at least, a different set of censorship rules), I forget all their names now - voat, rumble, gab, parler, etc and people who didn't like the content they saw there just went upstream to cloud providers, app stores, registrars, payment…

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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> when the population is growing Well, was. Your chart ends in 2024. It doesn't cite a source, so I'm curious about when in 2024 that number pulls; start (just a few months into the war) or finish? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/gaza-population-fall... > Population has declined by about 160,000 since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, official Palestinian statistics agency says.

your own link says that 100,000 that left gaza.[0]

4000 deliveries in march of this year. 50000 pregnant woman [1]

50,000 births by july of last year [2]

latest official (by hamas) death toll is 63000 [3]

so, if you go by numbers, population probably grown last year. or over last 2 years

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/gaza-population-fall...

[1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...

[2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...

[3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/gaza-health-ministry-says...

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