Israelis can do whatever they please and kill hundreds of people everyday, they literally destroyed 8 buildings full of people with many children to kill a single Hezbollah leader.

But how can I be surprised when more than a decade ago the same things where happening on US hands towards Iraqis or whatever. Drone kills 200 people in a market? Yeah but an Al Qaeda operative was there buying spices, so worth it.

We became numb to those tragedies. In particular when violence and death is happening by drones and bombs rather than someone pointing their rifle at you, it seems like it makes it less violent when I find it absurdly evil, cold and detached.

You can still follow individual reporters posting their own content. For example I can access both https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ or https://www.instagram.com/clarissawardcnn/, etc.

But I can not access the organization pages like https://www.instagram.com/cnn/

It’s hard to not be cynical about it.

I'm sure the impact was fully unintentional. Very welcome after the fact. But still unintentional

You can argue that this was a predictable response by Meta or that it was a stupid law, but it was not a ban.

The majority of Canadians share the majority of Americans' view of China.

Neighbors in Asia and Europe often have completely unaligned political politics due to a language and media barrier. Even the US and everything south of Texas don't align as much as the US and Canada.

It seems censorship is indeed being conducted, as described here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42072050

Almost 50% of Canadians believes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza: https://www.readthemaple.com/polls-show-gap-between-canadian...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

If the division is a result of the platform exposing people in that nation to information that they previously didn't have access to, due to the government censoring it, then it's absolutely a good thing for the people of the nation. The government of the nation state can get fucked when its interests go against the interests of its people. A divided people is a much better thing than a people united by ignorance and belief in falsehood.

i'm quite happy with Meta handling the moderation on the conflict.

i'm saying we remove the noise surrounding the conflict, and this is curbing the systemic spread of non-truths and hate speech by Iranian-backed disinformation campaigns. TikTok is rife with this.

i believe the rising antisemitism today owes to the proliferation of such content on TikTok where young people consume it on a daily basis.

there is no denying an extremely disproportionate amount of misinformation is coming from the pro-Palestinian movement, backed by Iran and Qatar-based Al Jazeera.

there is no denying an extremely disproportionate amount of hate speech is directed towards the Israelis and the Jewish people, not the Palestinians.

just scroll TikTok or Twitter. for one mild post against a Palestinian, you will find ten extremely antisemitic content directed towards an Israeli who has nothing to do with the conflict.

Sure, just like there is no terrorism in the middle east. We said it, so that makes it true.

Honestly though, I believe the rising islamophobia and anti-Palestinian attitudes owe to the proliferation of such content online. There is simply no denying an extremely disproportionate amount of hate speech and misinformation coming from the pro-Israel movement, backed by Israel and Israeli media, and directed towards Palestinians and those who oppose the genocide of them. I say this as a jewish person.

I'm just suggesting we remove the noise surrounding the conflict, by curbing the systemic spread of non-truths and hate speech by Israeli-backed disinformation campaigns. Just scroll through any social network or news post with comments. For every one mild post you see describing Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and The West Bank, you will find ten extremely islamophobic comments directed towards Palestinians who had nothing to do with the conflict.

What exactly do you take issue with? Your naked and hurtful assertions not being taken on blind faith? The fact that I, a person of jewish faith, see significantly less hate directed at me for it, than I do directed towards Palestinians and those who oppose the genocide of them?

"There is simply no denying an extremely disproportionate amount of hate speech and misinformation coming from the pro-Israel movement"

what a ridiculous thing to say. let's compare pro-palestine vs pro-israel gatherings. the only thing pro-pals guys do is spreading their hate towards Jews (not only Zionists)

Specifically what happened in Canada is:

* A national security review found Tiktok's operations in Canada to be a risk to national security

* Tiktok's operations in Canada are being closed down but Canadians are still able to use and post on Tiktok

* This type of review is pretty opaque by nature so more details are probably unavailable at this stage

If Canadians are still able to use and post on Tiktok I'm not sure there is a speech/censorship issue here. Maybe Tiktok Canada was harboring spies or something, or maybe this is a roundabout way to push Tiktok out of the country later, but I don't think we have any solid public info.

If tiktok is allowed to do business in the country, then they can buy allegiance via the creator fund which makes it harder to get citizens to realize (and leave it) once they start deploying active measures.

"instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole"

"It is not about the data. It’s about a foreign government controlling the algorithm that decides what millions of people see"

"it's not only China - we do it to ourselves to. Instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole"

"this muddies the issue"

you know what? instead of focusing on China, we should limit the issue as a whole