Most journalists and human rights activists who write or advocate for Palestinian rights–or who criticize Israeli apartheid and Occupation–have confronted censorship on social media platforms. Though Facebook seems to be a more egregious violator of free expression, Twitter too engages in censorship of political speech. Today, NBC News reported that Facebook had suspended or deleted […]
Google Censors (My) Post Identifying Border Police Commander Who Murdered Ethiopian Youth
גוגל חסמה לגולשים מישראל את הפוסט על ברוך בן עזרי – קצין מג”ב שהרג את סלומון טקה UPDATE: Both Calcalist and 7th Eye reported this story for Israeli readers. Thanks to Eyal Clyne who translated the two posts about this incident into Hebrew and posted them in his blog. I’ve just received an official notice […]
Google Censors Tikun Olam Based on Secret Israeli Court Order
גוגל צינזרה מתוצאות החיפוש בישראל את הפוסט שלי על פרופ’ צבי איזיקוביץ, שהואשם כי הוא מטריד מיני סדרתי Yesterday, I received a notice from Google (see screenshot) saying that it was removing a blog post I wrote from all search results for google.co.il, the company’s Israel-based search engine. This means that any Israeli using the […]
‘Being Evil’: Google Censors Tikun Olam from Certain Hebrew Searches
Google doesn’t just censor searches at the behest of China or the EU (controversial issues which have embarrassed the company over the past few years). It does so in Israel, as 7th Eye reported a few days ago. The reporter discovered that the Israeli search engine had removed search results related to Israeli double agent, […]
