Israel Advances New 'Facebook Bill', Threatening Free Speech https://globalvoices.org/2017/01/13/israel-advances-new-facebook-bill-threatening-free-speech/
The Israeli Knesset passed last week a first reading of a controversial new bill that would allow Israeli courts to order social media companies to remove online content it deems "inciting". The "removal of criminally offensive content from the internet", colloquially known as the "Facebook bill", allows Israeli administrative courts, at the request of government, to issue orders demanding social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter remove online content considered as incitement to violence. The bill has to go through two more rounds of approval by the Israeli Knesset before it becomes a law. - - - Government censorship is always a hallmark of impending tyranny. This applies not only in Israel, but in Russia, China, Europe, the USA, and everywhere else. --Lauren-- REPORT Fake News Here! - https://factsquad.com CRUSHING the Internet Liars - https://vortex.com/crush-net-liars STOP President Trump - https://vortex.com/stop-president-trump - - - Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 - - - The correct term is "Internet" NOT "internet" -- please don't fall into the trap of using the latter. It's just plain wrong! _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir