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Facebook made mainstream media headlines last week when it censored a photograph of a breastfeeding mother. As Facebook has increasingly become a platform for organizing and debate, many are finding their content disappearing.
The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF), which describes itself as a “non-violent protest group who share concerns about antisemitic online content, as well as content which promotes terrorism on sites including Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Earth, Blogger, and other sites and forums throughout the internet,” has expressed concern over the censoring of their content on Facebook (despite the fact that they seem to be pro-censorship themselves):
* ….. by clicking on link on Facebook which takes people here, which is a story about the terrorist organization responsible for the attacks in Mumbai being involved on Facebook itself. It was a topic of a conversation in a Facebook group, which originally occurred here: www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2204704082&topic=6904 (as you can see in the screencap)
* However, now that conversation is gone! What happened to it, Facebook? This is not the first time we have noticed this phenomenon. Many threads in various pro-Israel and pro-JIDF groups have mysteriously disappeared!
* It seems Facebook is extremely active in censoring content which might be “anti-Facebook” to some extent, yet the Jew hatred and promotion of Islamic terrorism remains.
* We tried to send the following message out to all our JIDF Facebook group members over 5 hours ago and it is either not going to go through, seriously delayed, or Facebook is censoring our content:
While JIDF believes that “Jew hatred and promotion of Islamic terrorism” remains on Facebook, it seems that supporters of Palestine and Gaza are finding their content censored as well. Rebelliousgirl expressed on Twitter that Facebook has prevented her from using hashtags:
Jordanian blogger Jad Madi, who describes himself as simply “Middle Eastern,” changed his name to “Gaza Jad Madi” today after discovering Facebook's alleged biases:
Facebook started to delete anti zionist content, we need to draw the maximum attention to Gaza cause, changing your first name into Gaza should help.
My name now is Gaza Jad Madi
The blog to which Gaza Jad Madi links is Shuger Cuebs, which asks: “Is Facebook Violating Our Right to Free Expression?” The Palestinian blogger writes:
A friend of mine had to go through such an irritating experience with the facebook administration; according to Ibrahim Mughrabi, facebook has deleted content on his personal profile related to the “Zionist attacks on Gaza”. He says he’s been contacted by the administration and warned that he’d be suspended from posting stuff on facebook if he continues to do so!
So much for free speech and equal rights for everyone in this world.
Have you experienced censorship on Facebook? Let us know.
Facebook just reactivated my profile after my two emails of inquiry.They said they did it after discovering a picture encouraging violence,and they deleted it.
In fact this picture was of a palestinian father running between destroyed houses with his children in the hands.
I should just remark that i put this picture 10 days ago,and that the blockage came after i have been upadating my statuses and writing in groups day and night in support to Gaza.In fact,it caime consequently with my last status on date.
But whatever,they activated my profile back,and ill continue.I dont know if this is an advertisement or if they were serious.Time will tell.
Cuantos años o siglos tardaran los Israelíes en decir aquello de « pero yo no sabia que estaba pasando esto… ».. u otros repitiendo frases como “yo solo obedecía ordenes..”.. La “comunidad” internacional, le ha entrado, como a menudo, un parálisis cerebral, y un parálisis sentimental.. ven, oyen, pero no saben que hacer, no intervienen, no se mueven, o tan poquito que pareciera que hacen justo lo necesario para quedar bien ante la opinión publica, y darle mientras tanto tiempo suficiente para que el ejercito Israelí haga su sucio trabajo.. que cinismo.. y que vergüenza y que hijoputismo el estadounidense que con su poderío otorga o quita el derecho a masacrar a inocentes. MEMORIA, hay que hacer memoria, y recordando, me viene a la mente aquella otra parálisis de las “democracias” que permitió que las fuerzas fascistas le dieran a Franco la victoria en nuestro país. ¿No hay ningún político, que se atreva a decir muy alto y muy fuerte que BASTA YA de este terrorismo? estoy hablando evidentemente del terrorismo del estado de Israel, hay que condenarlo YA, al igual que hemos condenado cada acto terrorista de cualquier grupo que emplee esos métodos, tendríamos que ilegalizar también a todos los políticos que no lo condenen con su debida dureza.
Mientras los soldados masacran al pueblo palestino, en la Unión Europea se esta estudiando la posibilidad de darle a Israel un estatuto de asociado privilegiado, vamos, es como decir que hacen parte de la Unión Europea sin serlo oficialmente.. es verdaderamente vergonzante, y si por alguna casualidad se justificase tal medida, habría que utilizarla inmediatamente, para que la voz europea se oiga un poquito mas, o hay que paralizarla, para decirle a los dirigentes sionistas que no admitimos asesinos en nuestro seno, cuestión de principio… “de principio”.. que cosas me salen al escribir.. parece una palabra vacía de contenido. El Papa, nuestro Rey, políticos y personajillos no paran de decir que están consternados por lo que esta pasando, pero nadie es capaz de pegar un manotazo encima de la mesa y decir que ya esta bien.. que ningún país por muy pueblo elegido que se tenga, puede abusar de la manera en la que lo esta haciendo, de otros pueblos, que ningún país tiene derecho divino al masacre de sus vecinos, ninguno de estos hombres de poder son capaces de reenviar a su país a los embajadores Israelíes, de amenazar con bloqueos comerciales, en una palabra de actuar.
Me da vergüenza de tanto pseudo demócrata de pacotilla.
I have also exp. a form of censorship. Anytime I go to write a note having to do with Palestine or Zionism it says that it cannot be saved at this time. If I write a note about anything else than it will go through just fine. This is remarkably suspicious activity on the part of FB. BTW, I also see they have “Support Israel in the War” ads up now, one appeared to the right of my screen a few days back. I was shocked.
PBB not fungtion, they silent, many people die in palestine. i want my country (Indonesia) out from PBB