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Isn't freedom of the press a necessity for democracy?
Those zionazis aren't living in a democracy. The cunts that assassinated Yitzhak Rabin literally run that government right now. Place is a shit hole terrorist state.
Hiding things from the press is a hell of a lot harder when everyone has an internet-connected photo and video camera in their pocket.
True; but it's made much easier when you've destroyed all the infrastructure that keeps those phones/cameras charged and transmits the photos and video.
Batteries only last so long, and you've still gotta be able to send the data somehow.
Batteries can be charged via solar panels and internet can be reached via satellite. I agree, it's not as easy, but it is still very doable by a lot of people if they have the equipment. If I were Al Jazeera, I would be doing what I could to smuggle that equipment into Gaza.
Which is why we need to find a way to get radios and mesh networks to the Palestinian people.
All this money being spent as if its an ad campaign, we could do a lot more if we could safely get the supplies in and keep them out of Israeli and Hamas hands.
I don't know if a mesh network would be as good an idea as using satellite internet since all the routers in the mesh network would need to be powered.
And I don't necessarily mean Starlink. There are other options, they just have higher latency because they're in a higher orbit.
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for pointing that out.
Something like Briar could be used to exchange messages between devices over Bluetooth, but it still end up using a fair amount of battery which is a problem when you don't have access to a reliable power grid, and it's Android-only..
I would imagine the people of Palestine with phones are overwhelmingly on android.
I would imagine most of their internet infrastructure is down though.
Yeah.. at least you can share the app installer without Internet, and communications done on the mesh can be transmitted online as long as one single node can get Internet access.
Alas, all those with eyes to see had no power to stop the beast. As the blind only fed it, ensuring it good and just.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
An Al Jazeera correspondent on its Arabic service said the order would affect the broadcaster’s operations in Israel and in east Jerusalem, where it has been doing live shots for months since the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war in Gaza.
The decision threatens to heighten tensions with Qatar at a time when the Doha government is playing a key role in mediation efforts to halt the war in Gaza, along with Egypt and the United States.
Relations took a major downturn nearly two years ago when Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to remain in Gaza throughout the war, broadcasting bloody scenes of airstrikes and overcrowded hospitals and accusing Israel of massacres.
While Al Jazeera’s English operation often resembles the programming found on other major broadcast networks, its Arabic arm often publishes verbatim video statements from Hamas and other militant groups in the region.
Sunday’s development immediately recalled Egypt’s shutdown of Al Jazeera after the country’s 2013 military takeover following mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi, a member of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group.
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