On Honest Reporting, Andre Oboler writes that the PMW attack – which follows a similar earlier attack on the invaluable MEMRI site – is part of a general onslaught upon pro-Israel YouTube accounts: It seems someone, or some group of new media anti-Israel activists, are gaming the system. They are taking advantage of YouTube’s automated and semi-automated systems to push their agenda slowly through the system. First one complaint, then a second... until eventually the goal is achieved and the channel itself is shut down. Until YouTube can improve the system, and recognise when people Palestinian Media Watch does heroic work bringing to light the appalling incitement to mass murder and hatred of Jews and Israelis often transmitted by Palestinian Authority-controlled and Hamas-controlled media. Much of its work consists of simply translating and disseminating Palestinian media broadcasts, which are often deeply shocking in their medieval-style bigotry towards, and open incitement to violence and murder of, Israelis and Jews. Even more shocking still is that PA TV is funded heavily by the EU – which is therefore funding hate speech. Until and unless such incitement is stopped, there is no prospect of peace in the Middle East. Which is why the work done by PMW, which makes this material available on YouTube, is so valuable in helping alert people to the reality in the Middle East. But now, PMW says YouTube has closed down the...Monday, 20th December 2010
The net closes in
2:43pm
Further to my post below, it would appear that the YouTube censorship of Palestinian Media Watch (now lifted) is but part of a broader attempt by the Islamic world to censor the net and remove all critical scrutiny of its activities.
...Sunday, 19th December 2010
Censorship on YouTube
9:56pm
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
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