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At least #Perplexity got one thing right:
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Multiple #independent #investigations and #leaked #internal #data confirm that #SocialMedia platforms—especially #Meta (#Facebook and #Instagram)—have engaged in #widespread, #systematic #censorship of #pro-Palestinian #content, often in direct response to #Israeli #government #requests[1][2][3][4][6][7]. This censorship has resulted in the #removal, #suppression, or #shadowbanning of tens of thousands of #posts and #accounts, with a disproportionate impact on users from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, but also affecting users worldwide[2][3][4][6].
Key points from the evidence:
- Meta has complied with 94% of Israeli government takedown requests since October 7, 2023, resulting in over 90,000 immediate removals and the suppression of millions more posts through automated systems[2][3][4][6].
- The vast majority of these requests targeted #content #critical of #Israel or #supportive of #Palestinians, and only a tiny fraction targeted Israeli users[3][6].
- #HumanRightsWatch and other NGOs have documented this as a #global, #systemic pattern of #censorship, not isolated incidents[1][5][7].
- There is no comparable evidence of systematic censorship or suspension for users expressing pro-Israeli views; the #documented #bias overwhelmingly targets pro-Palestinian speech[1][2][3][4][5][6][7].
In summary, the documented reality is that pro-Palestinian views are aggressively censored on major social media sites, while pro-Israeli views do not face the same level of moderation or suppression. This creates a significant imbalance in the digital public sphere[1][2][3][4][6][7].
Citations:
[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
[2] https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data-israeli-censorship-meta
[3] https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/social-media-platforms-remove-pro-palestinian-posts/
[4] https://www.palestinechronicle.com/crackdown-on-pro-palestinian-content-meta-deletes-over-90000-posts-at-israels-requests/
[5] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/10/07/human-rights-ngos-say-social-media-platforms-continue-to-censor-pro-palestine-content
[6] https://7amleh.org/post/meta-must-end-the-systematic-censorship-of-palestinian-content-globally
[7] https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content
[8] https://www.un.org/unispal/document/ngo-action-news-17-april-2025/
[9] https://features.csis.org/gaza-through-whose-lens/index.html
[10] https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/24/shadowbanning-are-social-media-giants-censoring-pro-palestine-voices
[11] https://www.iemed.org/publication/the-gaza-war-coverage-the-role-of-social-media-vs-mainstream-media/
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Answer from Perplexity: pplx.ai/share
@israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe @gaza@a.gup.pe
For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.
One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.
Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.
If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.
Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.
To justify these measures, the executive order 
purports to combat large-scale voter fraud: 
the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.
(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most
-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)
The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.
If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.
Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.
Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;
the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.
(As NPR reported, researchers have found that 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)
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There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.
“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.
Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”
The Tower of Babel, Jesus & Socrates: How Suppression Fuels Resistance
https://youtu.be/Q8gqyvT-FBA
#fascism #politics #suppression #resist #resistance
From Thom Hartmann:
Why would Trump, Musk, and Kennedy put Americans at such a public health risk that could lead to tens of thousands of deaths and economic chaos? Fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat muses that “a diseased population is easier to control.” Or is this another way to kneecap America that Putin put Trump up to? Inquiring minds want to know…
I wrote about the increasing threats to Wikipedia from Elon Musk, and the importance of protecting decentralized democratic information reporting. https://www.derekguzman.com/centralized-power-narratives-vs-open-source-truth-reporting/ #tech #technology #politics #elonmusk #authoritarian #suppression #democracy
Die Diktatur der faschistischen #techbros hat begonnen. #tech #digitalpower #musk #oligarchy #suppression #war #cyberwar #usa #1984isnow #plutocracy #idiobracy #resistance #europe #Americanheritagefoundation #maga
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFdhu7CoK3_/?img_index=1&igsh=YWIwNms0MjYyNTU1
![AP STATEMENT ON OVAL OFFICE ACCESS. The Associated Press issued a statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Asssociated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism. Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment. AP's guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Trump's executive order regarding the name is available [here].](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/987/787/877/903/345/original/45caf74256f018da.jpg "AP STATEMENT ON OVAL OFFICE ACCESS. The Associated Press issued a statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Asssociated Press informs billions of people around the world every day with factual, nonpartisan journalism. Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office. This afternoon AP's reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing. It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism. Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP's speech not only severely impedes the public's access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment. AP's guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Trump's executive order regarding the name is available [here].")
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to Records System That Is Not Subject to FOIA
https://www.404media.co/email/dc4f2fa1-e993-4f30-aea1-b985998bd90a/
#fascism #news #dictatorship #UnitedStates #suppression #PresidentMusk #VicePresidentTrump #FOIA #DOGE #broligarchy #transparency
Other people have mentioned this in passing, but surely someone at the DWP - a minsiter maybe, pur encourgaer les autre? needs to be taken to task and charged with crimes that could include (and I am extemporising) misconduct in public office, theft and corruption.
@knutson_brain The theory is that perception of reality is formed through repetition, and that's how propaganda works. The theory is rough (and I guess rather weak in methodologically terms) but as long as most people comply those in power make use of it. That's why control of mass media has always been more important than terror. Only the weakest regimes must use extermination of dissenters as an additional principle. #rule #power #propaganda #suppression #terror
#Instagram et #Facebook ont été pris en flagrant #délit de #suppression de liens menant vers leur concurrent #Pixelfed
Ceci est donc un #appel #partisan #massif à l'utilisation de #Pixelfed en lieu et place d' #Instagram et #Facebook, et même de #TikTok
@finkd @elonmusk
Real-time #Noise #Suppression Plugin
Плагин предназначен для подавления широкого спектра источников шума.: Компьютерные вентиляторы, офис, толпа, самолет, автомобиль, поезд, строительство.
Согласно моим тестам, легкий #фоновый шум всегда подавляется, громкие #звуки, такие как щелчки механической клавиатуры, подавляются, пока нет голоса, однако их громкость уменьшается только при наличии голоса..
Обратите внимание, что этот #плагин не может улучшить качество голоса при плохом микрофоне, он даже может усугубить ситуацию, ошибочно классифицируя голос как #шум, что ухудшит и без того не очень хорошее качество голоса.
Поддерживается как #Linux, так и Windows.
Shameful of Britain: Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds #policing #ClimateActivism #suppression #freedomofspeech #civilliberties https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/11/britain-leads-the-world-in-cracking-down-on-climate-activism-study-finds?CMP=share_btn_url
A quotation from Bacon, Francis:
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The punishing of wits enhances their authority, and a forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bacon-francis/46093/
#Tlaib, #ACLU, and advocates warn #HR9495 could empower Trump to silence nonprofits and stifle dissent
#Progressives and #CivilRights groups sound the alarm over legislation that could allow President-elect #Trump to strip nonprofits of their tax-exempt status without evidence, threatening #FreeSpeech and #democracy.
By Alexis Sterling -
November 15, 2024
"The bill does not require officials to provide an explanation for designating a group, nor does it obligate the #TreasuryDepartment to present evidence of wrongdoing. This lack of accountability has raised alarm bells among advocates who see it as a tool for #authoritarian #suppression.
"#RashidaTlaib Tlaib has been one of the most vocal opponents of the bill, particularly given its timing amidst heightened protests over U.S. support for Israel’s military actions in #Gaza. 'This is authoritarianism,' Tlaib said. 'This bill is designed to silence dissent and give Trump #UncheckedPower to target groups he doesn’t agree with'.'
"Other progressive lawmakers echoed her concerns. Rep. #SummerLee (D-Pa.) called the legislation 'a giant threat to free speech,' warning that it would allow the government to “label any nonprofit as ‘terrorist-supporting’ without evidence or due process—opening the door to crush opposition and silence dissent.' Rep. #IlhanOmar (D-Minn.) added that 'no one person should have the authority to silence organizations that dare to challenge government policies or speak uncomfortable truths.'
"Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), who is leaving Congress after losing his primary to a candidate backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (#AIPAC), described the bill as 'extremely dangerous.' He cautioned that it 'will sink us further into #authoritarianism. It is an extremely dangerous bill that would give the government unlimited power to stop the work of #humanitarian groups and target political enemies. All without transparency or evidence.'
While the bill is widely seen as a response to criticism of U.S. support for Israel, its potential impact goes far beyond organizations advocating for Palestinian rights. Costello warned that 'the danger is much broader than just groups that work on foreign policy. It could target major liberal funders who support #PalestinianSolidarity and peace groups who engage in #protest. But it could also theoretically be used to target #ProChoice groups, and I could see it being used against #environmental groups.'
"#JewishVoiceForPeace Action’s political director Beth Miller described the legislation as 'terrifying,' emphasizing its potential to suppress civil society across the board. “This bill should be a five-alarm fire for anyone who seeks to protect free speech, civil society, and democracy. This is part of a broader #MAGA assault on the right to protest that begins with attacks on #Palestinian rights groups and is aimed at outlawing the #SocialJustice movements that fight for progressive change. This is part of a well-worn authoritarian playbook to dismantle fundamental freedoms.”
An Interview from Lebanon with Craig Murray, former Ambassador for the UK, human rights activist and friend of Assange.
He has been targeted by the UK government, blacklisted from media, banned from a number of social media platforms and suppressed from google search results.
And all he wants is to tell people stories from both sides of conflicts. From his time working for the UK government he has unique insight with a very much intact moral compass, and in this intrrview he finds harsh words about the state of western democracies expressed in a most polite way, with a very british friendly smile.
Students March.
Uni presidents: You're violating our no-blocking-sidewalks rule
Students hold candlelight vigil.
Presidents: You're violating fire safety rules
Students sing freedom songs.
Presidents: You're violating noise rules
students carry protest signs
Presidents: You're violating signage rules
Students sit quietly in a library for an hour with small messages on their laptops
Harvard president:...
...
fuck it, we both know it's because you have the wrong opinions
Who are #Oklahoma's #deleted #voters? Here's how they break down by #party.
— The 4 largest counties account for just under 50% of the deletions, with 3 of the 4 leaning democratic, suggesting that the likely intent is #voter #suppression.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Oklahoma #Voting #VoterSupression #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
I don't know guys but what we're seeing all over the West is really dystopian...
Look at the way these security guards/thugs rough up a young guy protesting the fact that Labour is still selling arms to Israel, and then cutting to whoever that "Adam Sutler / Minister Mason" woman is, saying the party is about change NOT protest 
