It is an interesting post. Just to comment further on the subject, yes in the UAE we used to get our information with the use of proxies and VPN. Here, censorship is a way to control what is being fed out.
Lets look at it in another way. Remember the day we had TV for the antenna channels? Well guess what... I hooked my TV to a powered antenna that I bought from amazon to get at least 11 OTA Channels. Two things shocked me. First was that some channels were advertising about the poor conditions people are living in Israel and asking for donations in an emotional way. The second was the way TV was meant to feed us TARGETED information. This information is a diversion of what is happening on the ground, a reality that is barred from reaching.
With the presence of the Internet, we were able to break that one way of information feeding and get public opinion out. Although this was good, information will flow out of control, especially in the last few years. First is by censoring the information, second is by distributing rumors, third by manipulating public opinion count and lastly by the politics of the trusted source.
All valid points, agreed George. Global narrative on Palestine is shifting through the course of resistance via social media.. It's a cruel facade, and just another shiny weapon in the enemy's arsenal, the 'weaponization of language'... against us 🇵🇸
So we stay vigilant, on what is said, or what is read.. what a fun game, this is indeed...
It is an interesting post. Just to comment further on the subject, yes in the UAE we used to get our information with the use of proxies and VPN. Here, censorship is a way to control what is being fed out.
Lets look at it in another way. Remember the day we had TV for the antenna channels? Well guess what... I hooked my TV to a powered antenna that I bought from amazon to get at least 11 OTA Channels. Two things shocked me. First was that some channels were advertising about the poor conditions people are living in Israel and asking for donations in an emotional way. The second was the way TV was meant to feed us TARGETED information. This information is a diversion of what is happening on the ground, a reality that is barred from reaching.
With the presence of the Internet, we were able to break that one way of information feeding and get public opinion out. Although this was good, information will flow out of control, especially in the last few years. First is by censoring the information, second is by distributing rumors, third by manipulating public opinion count and lastly by the politics of the trusted source.
All valid points, agreed George. Global narrative on Palestine is shifting through the course of resistance via social media.. It's a cruel facade, and just another shiny weapon in the enemy's arsenal, the 'weaponization of language'... against us 🇵🇸
So we stay vigilant, on what is said, or what is read.. what a fun game, this is indeed...