{"id":20351,"date":"2018-09-16T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/unmasking-freemasonry-en\/masonic-tendencies-in-contemporary-society-3480-en\/israel-is-censoring-bloggers-especially-those-criticizing-its-ruthless-policies\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:56:30","slug":"israel-is-censoring-bloggers-especially-those-criticizing-its-ruthless-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/israel-is-censoring-bloggers-especially-those-criticizing-its-ruthless-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Is Censoring Bloggers, Especially Those Criticizing Its Ruthless Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads4\/septembrie\/16\/16999\/16999_1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Israel is like other police states, wanting criticisms of its ruthless policies suppressed.<br \/>Since February 2016, its military censor, Col. Ariella Ben-Avraham, demands bloggers and social media users submit their material for screening before posting.<br \/>Failure is considered a crime. Regime critics risk prosecution, censorship now elevated to a higher level.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Israel wants control over pre-published material relating to its policies &#8211; vetted so anything it disapproves of gets trashed, the right of free expression abolished.<br \/>Blogger Yossi Gurvitz revealed Israel&#8217;s policy. He was notified to submit written material before publishing, showing democracy is more farcical than already known.<br \/>Until now, Israel&#8217;s military censor monitored Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites for material considered objectionable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ben-Avraham&#8217;s predecessor, Sima Vaknin-Gil, said &#8220;censorship cannot control the internet through prevention&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;If the censorship will require that each journalist who just opened a Twitter would provide it everything in advance, we would be stopping their processes. One of the changes we have inserted was the decision to simply tail them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">He called the policy &#8220;post-facto surveillance&#8221;, saying &#8220;With Facebook and Twitter, as bodies, we have no communication. We address the users directly.&#8221; <br \/>&#8220;The moment you pass a certain threshold, we identify you, initiate contact with you, explain to you the censorship and learn to work with you&#8221; expecting compliance with regime-imposed rules.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">After receiving notice from Israel&#8217;s current military censor, Gurvitz published a Facebook comment, saying he wouldn&#8217;t comply.<br \/>&#8220;The meaning of this demand is an extermination of the new media in Israel, the spirit of which is in the speed of response&#8221;, he wrote. &#8220;I am surveying the legal procedures available for me.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I don&#8217;t intend to provide them with anything. As far as I&#8217;m concerned, I&#8217;m taking this to court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Other Israeli bloggers and social media users were informed of the pre-publication rules. Meretz party MK Ilan Gilon commented, saying: &#8220;Under the cover of darkness, there is no limit to the expansion of Big Brother&#8230; I&#8217;ve asked for a debate to understand what the boundaries of censorship are and how far they can go. Am I also subject to censorship (in public comments)? This is totally unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In 2012, Israel recognized bloggers as journalists. Now they&#8217;re being treated as possible fifth column threats.<br \/>Censorship rules accompany heightened Israeli persecution of Palestinians, brutalizing them, killing them extra-judicially in cold blood.<br \/>Regime critics and human rights defenders are targeted, called traitors, recklessly accused of &#8220;incitement&#8221;, Israel&#8217;s latest catch phrase, labeling defenders of fundamental freedoms &#8220;enemies of the state&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Israeli contempt for international law mandated human and civil rights belies its Big Lie about being democratic &#8211; in name only. Hard truths expose its viciousness.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>September 16, 2018<br \/><\/strong><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Israel is like other police states, wanting criticisms of its ruthless policies suppressed.Since February 2016, its military censor, Col. Ariella Ben-Avraham, demands bloggers and social media users submit their material for screening before posting.Failure is considered a crime. Regime critics risk prosecution, censorship now elevated to a higher level. 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