[Pongo]

Google in talks with Israel to block Palestinian videos from YouTube


UPDATE: The Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs has corrected its original announcement which, in error, suggested there had been an agreement with Google to establish "a mechanism to monitor online materials".

Google representatives have met Israeli officials to discuss "inflammatory" Palestinian videos being posted to YouTube. Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely claimed that both the Palestinian education system and social media platforms such as YouTube were being used to incite Palestinian children to carry out violent acts against Israeli citizens.

Hotovely met Google's senior counsel for public policy, Juniper Downs, and YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters to discuss a process of monitoring and preventing the publication of videos deemed to encourage violence and terrorism. According to Hotovely, some Palestinian videos were used to goad children into stabbing innocent Israelis.

"The daily stabbings in Israel are a result of young boys and girls who are indoctrinated from an early age in the Palestinian education system and through social media," Hotovely said. "We are engaged daily in confronting incitement to violence, a task which can benefit greatly from the cooperation of those companies that are involved in social media."


Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, right, with Andy David, Israel's Consul General to the Pacific Northwest, met Google to discuss the censorship initiativeIsrael Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Violence between Palestinians and Israeli forces has flared up again in recent months, with 94 Palestinians and 16 Israelis killed in clashes since the start of October. According to Middle East Monitor, since the latest escalation in violence: "Many people have been sharing videos depicting Israeli aggression towards Palestinians to highlight the Palestinian perspective of the conflict."


In a statement to IBTImes UK, a Google spokesperson said: "Following media reports about a meeting last week between Google / YouTube executives and the Israeli Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, we wanted to clarify that this meeting was one of many that we have with policymakers from different countries to explain our policies on controversial content, flagging and removals."

According to Google, the Israeli Ministry for Foreign Affairs made an error in suggesting that there had been an agreement with Google to establish "a mechanism to monitor online materials".

Jewish blogger Richard Silverstein suggested that the collaboration between Google and Israel could set a dangerous precedent for online censorship.

"There are so many problems with Hotovely's claims, it's hard to know where to start," Silverstein wrote in a blogpost. "But my major problem is with the issue of censorship. Has Google agreed to censor videos? Has it been pressured to remove videos which document violence, whether perpetrated by Israeli security forces or Palestinian protesters?

"My guess is that Google... hosted the meeting because they agree to meet foreign diplomats in order to maintain good relations with foreign users and their governments. I strongly doubt Google has agreed to any formal arrangement that could lead to restricting video content. But if they have, it would be very important to know this."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/google-talks-i ... be-1531093

[Heinie]

The Israel Defense Forces do far more in indoctrinating Palestinian youth to hate Israel than any videos they might see on a computer.

[Pongo]

The father of one of one of the child terrorists blames the incitement


http://www.mynet.co.il/articles/0,7340, ... 34,00.html

An hour ago, girl age 14 tried to stab. On the background a song praising the shaid/ martyr

[Harmattan]

Either you obey a country's law, either you don't do business in this country. Obey or leave.

Doing business in a country while ignoring the authorities and pretending you can just apply your own made-up and inconsistent rules is morally wrong.

[danholo]

I think all those videos should remain on YouTube. They are hilarious in their absurdity.

[Pongo]

I think all those videos should remain on YouTube. They are hilarious in their absurdity.

Wish it will be that's funny. The Palestinians as primitive oriental folk have no rational mind filter to digest incitement, they take it seriously and immediately want to copy cat the previous shaid, martyr. Like the Nazi Germany Hitlerjugend.

On the other hand the Islamic propaganda sites are the place to get snuff films.

[KlassWar]

Either you obey a country's law, either you don't do business in this country. Obey or leave.

Doing business in a country while ignoring the authorities and pretending you can just apply your own made-up and inconsistent rules is morally wrong.

Nonsense: If you're a web business you can pick the jurisdiction of your choice and completely refuse to cooperate with any other authorities whatsoever. Other countries may or may not try to block your website, but that's about it.

[Pongo]

Two version of the video posted above, earlier this day

The first with music praising the martyrdom of the girl with knife, taken from Islamist propaganda site

Now it seems the music added to cover the Arabic voiceover of the man who took the video with his cellphone. When he saw the knife on the child schoolbag he started to curse her. Seems the knife intifada is not universally supported

Watch it before google/youtube/facebook will clampdown the Palestinian propaganda sites

[Harmattan]

Nonsense: If you're a web business you can pick the jurisdiction of your choice and completely refuse to cooperate with any other authorities whatsoever. Other countries may or may not try to block your website, but that's about it.

Not if you have money flowing from this country. Because you are then de facto legally bound by their laws.

Which means they can legally seize your cash flow from this country, and from many other countries if they have a corresponding agreement with them (ex: if you have French consumers and you violate French laws, then we can seize your cash flow and assets in half of the world). And, yes, they can block you.

Anyway I was not discussing a legal question but an ethical one. If you do business in a country you ought to abide to its law. Or you leave. But you do not simply ignore their laws to try to force your values in their throat, this is unethical. Don't like North Korea? Don't do business in North Korea.