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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by brnt on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:14AM (#40272722)
> Does it make them harder to watch here? No.

Of course it does? Most people are not going to go out of their way for it unless they have specific reasons to do so. What's on/available by default matters. (Ask any UX specialist.)

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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by benja123 on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:34AM (#40272806)
I should know better, my wife is a UX specialist! You make a good point. What I should have said is that it won’t stop people who really want to watch it.
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Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices by brnt on Monday May 06, 2024 @08:14AM (#40273726)
But then that isn't the goal: totally preventing you from ever seeing Al Jazeera or somesuch. As you noted: that'd be curtailment of freedoms only befitting dictatorships. Nobody wants that.

Making it slightly more difficult to consume outright propaganda by not having it front and center; that seems to me to be a very much acceptable move for democratic and free states to make in the context of information warfare.

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