Facebook Collaborating with Israeli Government on What Should Be Censored
Censorship, especially a state interference in censorship smells really bad. Even if done for &quot;good reasons&quot; this can go bad really quickly.<p>Having that said, and I&#x27;m all for free speech, but a post calling to use a better knife to inflict more damage on an ethnic group (I&#x27;m not making this up: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.adl.org&#x2F;international&#x2F;instructional-content-on-how-to-stab-jews-spreads-on-social-media" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.adl.org&#x2F;international&#x2F;instructional-content-on-h...</a>) should probably be legitimately removed. (and it <i>was</i> removed by Facebook &#x2F; Google &#x2F; Twitter)<p>Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed, whether they are posted by Palestinians or Israelis.<p>Some examples of posts that were probably the trigger of this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mfa.gov.il&#x2F;MFA&#x2F;ForeignPolicy&#x2F;Terrorism&#x2F;Palestinian&#x2F;Documents&#x2F;PalIncitementSocialMedia191015.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mfa.gov.il&#x2F;MFA&#x2F;ForeignPolicy&#x2F;Terrorism&#x2F;Palestinian&#x2F;Do...</a><p>Facebook should follow one rule - any post that is illegal should be removed. How do they decide what is illegal? they let their legal department interpret it I assume, or wait to be sued and then decide (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpost.com&#x2F;Arab-Israeli-Conflict&#x2F;20000-Israelis-sue-Facebook-over-incitement-to-violence-by-Palestinians-430112" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.jpost.com&#x2F;Arab-Israeli-Conflict&#x2F;20000-Israelis-su...</a>)<p>Still, Facebook should handle it as it handles things anywhere else. Maybe Israel have some good examples of content that should have been removed, but in most cases it has been removed, so basically Facebook is outsourcing moderation to the Israeli Government because they don&#x27;t have enough moderators that can read Arabic or just not enough manpower? No matter if it&#x27;s justified or not, a government should not meddle with the moderation operations of a global public platform.