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In a video on Oct. 13, Instagram influencer and photojournalist Motaz Azaiza shared footage of the rubble of an apartment, the site of an Israeli bombardment that killed 15 of his family members.

He turns the camera on himself first, visibly upset, and then shows the scene—the ruin of the building, a bloodstain, a neighbor carrying a child’s body draped with a shroud.

In response, Meta restricted access to his account.

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[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago

Meta was throttling pro-palestinian accounts on Threads. I couldn't post anything but pictures for 2 days.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Remember Instagram's auto translate "bug"?

[-] assa123@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] can@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations

The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

[-] Baines@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

80% of my phone screen covered in ads

shit website

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

There's mull for android. On ios you can use firefox focus, ddg, or brave

[-] steventhedev@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

On Android, you can also use Firefox and install unlock origin. And dark reader. And whatever other extension you want.

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[-] yoz@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

Its 2023 my dude. Use nextdns on router if you have one or ublock origin addon with Firefox.

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[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Shit website but the damage it can do to modern society is real.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is a wave of censorship and McCarthyist witch hunting against Pro Palestinian voices happening in the West. It is profoundly disturbing and shows how hollow the West's claims to championing personal liberty is.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 year ago

This is the sort of thing that freedom of speech is supposed to protect, but that idea has become so completely destroyed by Western people that I don't see any hope for people like that poor influencer.

He'll have to make his own website, or move to PixelFed or something.

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

No government censored him, capitalism did

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

At what point will you be considering big corps=government in the U.S.? We all know big oil has tremendous lobby, we all have evidence the military industry that works for profit more than anything else is responsible for most American wars in the last several decades. We all know what manchild is ruining everything he touches and shakes hands with government officials. We all know that Facebook and Cambridge Analytica manipulation machine.

Corporates and capitalism might not directly do legislation or have the executive power, but the U.S. government at least is a for-profit organization for a long while now, and evidently profits are not made with showing oppressed people suffering when you are gaining shitloads of money by selling weapons/investing in the oppressor.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

If freedom of speech can't protect you against corporate censorship then it's meaningless.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If freedom of speech can't protect you against corporate censorship then it's meaningless.

That's the biggest load of horse shit I've read today.

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[-] fatzgebum@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Any website owner has the right to decide if he wants to remove certain content on his website. That is not an infringement of free speech.

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[-] Designate6361@beehaw.org 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's almost like social media companies are pushing biased narratives...

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wow look at all these big horrible corporations that everyone knows are horrible siding with modern day nazism. And all of this could have been avoided if they gave these fucking companies china consequences the instant they started misbehaving instead of doing fucking nothing.

[-] arquebus_x@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

if they gave these fucking companies china consequences

Post a photo of the Tiananmen Square massacre and see what happens.

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[-] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IDK how I feel about this. They age restricted his account because he was showing war and death. If this is happening disproportionately to people reporting one side of this conflicts, which I'm sure it is, then I understand, but on its own this restriction makes sense.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

There's numerous examples given in the article by Mona Shtaya on how Palestinian posts and hashtags have repeatedly been filtered out of viewability on social media platforms going back years.

Meanwhile...

Shtaya explained that Israeli settlers used social platforms to incite violence against Palestinians in the West Bank earlier this year. “People on the ground are sometimes beaten, there were towns burned because of this incitement on the platforms,” she said.

Analysis from 7amleh found that an attack on the village of Hawara in the West Bank was precipitated by a deluge of violent content containing the Hebrew hashtag WipeOutHawara, The month before and after the attack, “80.2% of all (15,250) tweets about Hawara included negative content against the village and its residents via the Hebrew-language digital space.”

[-] livus@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And this is par for the course with the big social media platforms.

Facebook literally spent years hosting incitements to genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar (despite being repeatedly alerted to it... it later deliberately impeded the ICC genocide investigation) and more recently has hosted incitement against the Tigrayans in Ethiopia.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

For those who want to know more. Heck, there's even published papers on the subject.

[-] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

Of course, can't have people facing reality and risking them not consuming content on your awful platform now can we, must capture attention spans at all costs and reality just ain't cutting it for them

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago
  1. Setup a fediverse account anywhere that's not meta, x, or bluesky
  2. Publish your content
  3. Freedom.

It doesn't need to be mastodon, as a matter of fact, Mastodon is kind of a shitty place to publish long-form activity pub posts. Firefish, or WordPress with an activity pub plugin is absolutely perfect for this kind of thing.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 26 points 1 year ago

Maybe he wants people to actually see it.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Well apparently that's not happening anyway, so...

[-] Taringano@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago
  1. Make absolutely no money and have minuscule audience

  2. Create your own instance Beacuse why not

  3. Crippled in debt due

7.???

  1. Profit.
[-] library_napper 24 points 1 year ago

How is it that this article doesn't state why his accounts was suspended? What did Meta say the suspension was for?

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

Because Meta has not given an explanation to him or anyone. Hence why the article says "His Twitter account is still suspended for unclear reasons. "

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

What does twitter have to do with this?

[-] Omgarm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It is also a social medium.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

I'm going to guess that X number of people reported the account in Y hours so it was temporarily banned until some third-world, minimum-wage worker had time to look at it.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Capitalists gonna capitalist, no surprise there.

To think that a company like Facebook could care less about some dead family members would be a mistake. They only, at best, occasionally pretend to care to ensure they keep the money coming in.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

First of all I stand with Palestine here but I acknowledge the hardships that the Jewish people have faced.

That said, this conspiracy theories ,groups and prejudices that target Jewish people are going to have a field day with the likes of this. The whole control the media thing doesn't have to be some backroom dealings when you can just point to this type of thing as an example.

What is actually happening is Jewish people are far better represented in the higher strata of global business and they have huge lobbies around the world. You're just more likely to have people sympathetic to their plight in powerful positions.

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