In February 2024, without warning, YouTube deleted the account of independent British journalist Robert Inlakesh.

His YouTube page featured dozens of videos, including numerous livestreams documenting Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank. In a decade covering Palestine and Israel, he had captured video of Israeli authorities demolishing Palestinian homes, police harassing Palestinian drivers, and Israeli soldiers shooting at Palestinian civilians and journalists during protests in front of illegal Israeli settlements. In an instant, all of that footage was gone.

YouTube declined to provide evidence to support this claim, stating that the company doesn’t discuss how it detects influence operations. Inlakesh remains unable to make new Google accounts, preventing him from sharing his video journalism on the largest English language video platform.

Inlakesh, now a freelance journalist, acknowledged that from 2019 to 2021 he worked from the London office of the Iranian state-owned media organization Press TV, which is under U.S. sanctions. Even so, Inlakesh said that should not have led to the erasure of his entire YouTube account, the vast majority of which was his own independent content that was posted before or after his time at Press TV.

Hrant Dink prominent author was assassinated by a Turkish fascist back on January 14, 2007. Alin Ozinian, another Armenian reporter, wanted to mark the day by sharing his portrait on Instagram. The photo was removed citing "dangerous organisations and individuals" community standard.

I've noticed some occasional, but going to heavy censorship of Gazans accounts on some platforms. Not just Gazans, also accounts of people who are vocally pro Palestine.

Banning Bassem Youssef from Twitter is just another example.

And they say we live in the world of free speech.

My belief is they're doing this to cover the shit in Palestine that's going to be even worse.

Zionists are spinning every goddamn narrative and it's been disgusting for a long time that they can spew hate and lies and nothing will happen to them, but if you point out the truth about them, your online persona is dead.

I'm just waiting for the CIA to knock my doors for everything I said on this topic online, lol.

Or our rights being limited.

Are we terrorists because we're pointing out fingers to real terrorists?

Fuck them. I can't believe where we got as a society at this point.

Backstory: The “RKI-Files”(Robert Koch Institute) are internal protocols of Germany’s Federal Health Agency. They were obtained through legal action under the Freedom of Information Act(FOIA). The files show that politicians ordered the experts to make up stories and narratives so as to support the government’s preconceived measures.

RKI Files: ZDF and Der Spiegel Falsify Their Reporting Ex Post

The RKI Files that Multipolar has obtained via a FOIA request have been the topic of all major media since the weekend.

The breakthrough came with a factual and solidly researched [state broadcaster] ZDF report, which was subsequently rewritten in a misleading manner, although it is still unclear by whom.

A Spiegel article published shortly thereafter was initially worded neutrally, but defamatory false statements [we used to call these lies] were subsequently added without marking them clearly. Meanwhile, [Germany’s biggest tabloid] Bild reports without defamation—and on the front page of its Monday edition.

By Paul Schreyer, Multipolar Magazin, 25 March 2024 [source]

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Today I made a post about an hexbear rule I found strange, many comrades agreed but shortly after a debate ensued, the thread is still up, although locked, so anyone who wants can take a look and judge. One of the people I was arguing with is a moderator of lemmygrad, I got banned shortly after for being "disrespectful" and a lot of my comments were removed. Anyone who wants to judge should look up the post on the community "leftist infighting" they called me stupid, they strawmanned me and yet, who was banned? Me! I will leave some pictures in the comment so you can judge

https://mobile.twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

Time for me to find another search engine. Maybe yandex.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/184431

Version longue en français: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/coupure-russie.html

Several ISPs in France have started censoring rt.com via their DNS resolver.

Why are they doing this? I guess officially they'll say it's because of Russian propaganda about Ukraine, and that's partially correct.

But also worth pointing out is that despite very uncritical propaganda from the regime about what happens in Russia, RT is one of the only mass media (non-independent publication) where you can have decent news about social uproar in France (gilets jaunes, anti-police-abuse riots, etc).

We haven't reached the point where posts to RT are censored on social media (where it's most popular) so i can't exactly say we have "one side" to the news yet but it's getting closer.

This message is both a fuck you to french ISPs engaging in censorship (remember Sci-Hub? TPB?) and a reminder to all the Putin fanboys around here what "there's only one side to the news" really means: Russia is already there (there's a few independent publications but they've been struggling for years with State censorship and journalist assassinations) and France is getting closer (on the other side of the narrative). The rest of you who live in countries with more free speech can't even realize what information control means so please don't take these words lightly.