[News] YouTube and Google to censor Palestinian videos in concert with Zionist occupation

[Anti-Imperialist News]

  Israel To Coordinate With Google, YouTube, To Censor Palestinian
  Videos Of Conflict

author Friday November 27, 2015 02:34author by Saed Bannoura
*http://www.imemc.org/article/74028*

    The Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, Member of Knesset Tzipi
    Hotovely, held meetings this week with representatives of YouTube
    and Google, to find ways of cooperating to censor Palestinian videos
    from occupied Palestine, videos she dubbed as “inciting violence and
    terrorism.”

Israeli daily Maariv said Hotovely will be working with Google and 
YouTube officials in a joint mechanism that will be in charge of 
“monitoring and preventing” any publication of materials deemed by Tel 
Aviv to be “inflammatory.”

Hotovely announced in a Hebrew-only press release that she met with 
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, and Google’s Director of Public Policy, 
Jennifer Oztzistzki, at Google’s Silicon Valley Offices.

Hotovely said that she received a comprehensive review mechanism for 
companies to monitor the films that allegedly incite violence, claiming 
that the supposed ‘incitement videos’ drive young children to go out and 
stab: "The attacks daily in Israel are the result of youths and children 
incited by the education system and the social networks, this is a daily 
war of incitement."

She said that Google agreed to strengthen the bilateral relations with 
Israel’s Foreign Ministry, and build a mechanism of “collaborative work” 
that would make both parties partners in monitoring the published 
materials and censoring them.

The Israeli move comes amidst escalating tension in occupied Palestine, 
and a large number of videos, including those showing Israeli soldiers 
and officers killing Palestinians execution-style after injuring them, 
and many videos that in general highlight the suffering of the 
Palestinian people, living under the illegal Israeli occupation of 
Palestine.

The Israeli coordination with Google and YouTube has very serious 
implications, and many journalists have spoken out in opposition, saying 
it is a direct assault on the Freedom of the Press.

All foreign journalists who report in the Occupied Territories are 
required to register with the Israeli military, and any footage that 
they film is required to go through the Israeli Military Censor’s office 
before it can be released.

With the recent advances in technology, many Palestinians and other 
civilians have been able to post videos uncensored online.

The Israeli government has frequently voiced its discontent with this 
development, and have worked to find ways to continue to censor videos 
coming out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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