On May 20, 2011
On this day we posted on this weblog the blogpost: Twitter Death for Occupied Palestine.
Twitter suspended the account of occupiedpalestine. Also twitter unsuspended it again a few days later with the message that we had been tweeting “unrelated tweets” into a “trending topic”. This trending topic was the #MESpeech and discussing or posting #Palestine related news or resources is definitly not unrelated at all. But hence, twitter is to be added to the Free Speech killers as Facebook the new online checkpoint, for indiscriminately censoring specific tweeps or hashtags from use or trending or worse than that, allowing tweeps to tweet but exclude them from worldwide searches and thus trending.
The concept of twitter and it’s hashtags implicates, that when someone is interested in a specific topic, she or he goes after the hashtag, uses a monitor or looks for tweeps using those to follow. But excluded from this, no tweep can find a co-tweep to exchange knowledge, opinion or just conversate about it. Which is at least the destinated use of twitter to “social network”.
But as all experienced (pro) Palestine bloggers/posters know, whenever we hit the topic PALESTINE we are deleted very quickly, restricted or removed. Especially on Facebook we even get errorpages which have literally the names: roadblock.php and checkpoint.php. Speaking about #Sarcasm…
May 22, 2011 : Ynet Publishes a “Web War Declaration”
YNet published an article to call all pro-zion Israelis to “webduty” (again) and announced a “Web War declaration” in which “recruits” are called to do their duty to influence people aka sustain the hasbara.
This also not new. Amir Gissin, Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem posted on July 22 on the website of www.standwithus.com — an pro-Israel advocacy organization a previous call which was immediately reported by Electronic Intifada . Head hasbara issued in the same months a tool named Megaphone, to “weapon” online pro-israeli activists to save hasbara and sustain dying romatic myths about Israel preventing them from a digital and even global awakening or even meltdown!
On the same day – because we are not to chicken to engage in an offer to a digital sparring-party, we launched an answer: The Digital Intifada 3.0, no live rounds like Israel uses to oppress or even literally silence to death people which protest the regime, but plain bytes of truth, with a load of resources, handbooks, howto’s and history. Hence, this whole blog is designed as an archive for we know, if we just post links, GIYUS and company will censor or complain themselves anywhere to get something removed from the web.
The latest example is the GIYUS efforts on Youtube on the song of Oneworld, even trying to shut up passionate Human Rights & Justice Lovers from singing, and within one day thousands of “dislikes” were pushed on the song and of course Facebook was the first to destroy the initiative by removing all links, blocking them as well on which we replied with this post: Checkpoint “HaSefer Bli Paneem” (Book without Face) Can’t Stop “One World” From Singing for Palestine!
In the cage…
Now it seems, #Palestine or Palestine loving mankind, again, is being harressed by restrictions, and the siege on Palestine is not only physical in the occupied territories but extended to Cyberspace as well, restricting the freedom of movement of bytes by excluding tweeps from being visible in searches. We regard this a very lame act of censorship for the Internet is designed to exchange knowledge, data, communication and these kind of free speech killers oppose everything what the Internet stands for.
An Insult…
It is also a great insult to anyone seeking information, offering them a limited censored selection of tweets, posts or links, or block even a whole topic from trending at all. We do not live in the ages of stone it’s 2011!
So we want to Announce…
We are waiting for quick removal of this restriction and new online otser ( curfew) on twitter. Because even if we have to go throw bottles in the sea with news, you can not stop us anyway. There is a movement going on of people, who ARE interested in the truth, in both sides, or just seeking all information and it is a severe violation of the right and freedom of speech to restrict people of (re)posting, links or articles which were -by the way- already covered by mainstream media in the first place!
Request
We ask you to retweet and repost our links as much as possible.
This blog is covering all news about Palestine available over 24 hours a day and covering almost all news from reliable sources as well as posts live from the ground of Palestine in an effort for Justice and Humanright in Palestine, and as well as Palestine deserves Justice and truth, you deserve it also so we are putting huge efforts in maintaining the spreading of facts in hope the global awakening and the truth will win. Palestine is not waiting on a next remark “Wir haben es nicht gewusst…”
Join us, let the #DigitalIntifada go on and spread the news for the sake of Palestine, it’s people, it’s refugees, the martyrs and the children… which are our future.
Below related posts and resources for more insights.
Updates
- 10 Tips for Dealing With Zionist Internet Megaphone Spam Machine of GIYUS
- About MegaPhone Software
- Download Link to Megaphone Software [exe] | Electronic Intifada Website
New Free Download
The Handbook Zionism hands out to their hasbara recruits to manipulate & brainwash the world to keep you stupid. A Must Read & Spread …
- HASBARA HANDBOOK | HOWTO
About Hasbara
- 10 Big Media Lies about Israel
- Checkpoint Washington – Netanyahu: ‘America is a thing you can move very easily’ | How to Keep the ignorant…
- Israel investing $1.6 million in “new media warriors”
- Captain Israel | Sickening Hasbara Magazine
- Hasbara for Dummies-Insulting our Intelligence
- Hi Joe!
- IDF uses propaganda like an authoritarian regime
- MISCONCEPTIONS & MYTHS ABOUT THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
- What The Media Forgets About Israel
Forget all details! It’s just about this!
- Special Topic | Ethnic Cleansing
- Quick Facts | 10 Facts about the Nakba
- EI Exclusive | Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed during Nakba
Supported by… AIPAC
- AIPAC | Quick Facts
- AIPAC Bill will Destroy More American Jobs
- AIPAC Protests Disclosure of Its Secret Files
- AIPAC | What Every American Should Know
- AIPAC’s Scandalous Behaviors
- As a Holocaust survivor, AIPAC does not speak for me
- J Street, AIPAC, Palestine and Israel
- Panic from the Houses off Congress & AIPAC
Funded by….
- How Many Weapons to Israel?
- Costs of arming Israel can no longer be ignored
- US weapons to Israel deter peace
- New database reveals weapons to Israel, impact on
- US weapons give-a-way to Israel used to kill 735 Palestinian children in past decade
- US Weapons to Israel Are Disincentives to Peace
- Consequences of Israeli Chemical Weapons
- ei: Israel’s blood diamonds
And all those supporting it paying for this…
- Occupation 101 (Full Movie in 11 Parts) – video
- Al Nakba | English | The Full Movie – video
- All Israeli Massacres on Palestinians
Last but not least….
Or listen to Jewish mankind with a real conscience
- New eBook of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network | Free Download
- Testimonies | Breaking the Silence | New Database online !
Don’t think it’s about “Arabs” or “Islam”… we are all Goyim!
- Zionist Crimes Against Christianity | 100.000 Christians ethnic cleansed in 1948
Something to ponder about…
For who not sees or who’s eyes are still closes. IOA has become exactly and even worse than those, they feared and hated once themselves. Using the same atrocities, policies to oppress, ethnically cleanse and eradicate human beings. Creating a new Shoah (Holocaust) for the Palestinians in 1948 with Al Nakba, and sustaining it by hasbara and the world’s ignorance or at least those not using their own mind to reconsider the realistic facts. So Hasbara in 16 words explained:
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it…”
~ Joseph Goebbels
…will be updated of course with related news or relevant counter “cyber truth ammo”. Stay Human, stay safe and Free Palestine!
Activists Resources | Knowledge is Power!
- The Veritas Handbook : The HOWTO Get Rid of Israeli Hasbara ( Propaganda ) Guide | free download
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Palestine’s weapon of mass instruction | Electronic Intifada
- Handbook | Putting Technology to Work for Palestine Activism, V 1.0 | PDF
- Downloads | Palestine Internet Defence Force
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