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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by tiku on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:03PM (#27645820)
"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.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by ljasdas on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:08PM (#27645867)
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...

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by tiku on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:13PM (#27645926)
Well they say automated systems did it, could be. Especially if the social media teams or other supports from Israel are constantly reporting (violent) content, then that content would be flagged/deleted etc.
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by ljasdas on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:52PM (#27646259)
Strangely, only Palestinian voices get silenced...
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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by slipframe on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:25PM (#27646035)
> 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.

This is a good reason to mourn the demise of liveleaks. For as gross as much of that content was, I think our society still needs a way to publish videos that make advertisers uncomfortable.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by ComputerGuru on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:07PM (#27645858)
> 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.

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Re:The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media by mcguire on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:09PM (#27646391)
"One of the charges brought against them was that “their nationalistic sentiment” posed a threat to “state security.”"
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