You tube bans Al Jazeera !

hpiirai@piipitin.fi

Banned only in Israel, it seems. https://network.aljazeera.net/en/press-releases/al-jazeera-denounces-youtube%E2%80%99s-submission-ban-its-broadcast-israel-and-calls

weezmgk@mastodon.social

@hpiirai oh... @Geri

rightsprung@c.im

@Geri

Time that we all ban youtube

gimulnautti@mastodon.green

@Geri Wow! But isn’t that anti-semitic? As far as I know Arabic is a semitic language. 🫣

jimedrand@fedinet.waltuh.cyou

@Geri I guess Al-Jazeera will start to move into another approach such as using fediverse or anything else that they could.

woo@fosstodon.org

@Geri Not THAT free speech!

mook@possum.city

@Geri@mastodon.online shameful, it is only Israel at least, tho i wonder if this would also be applied to people in Gaza and the West Bank

capnthommo@c.im

@Geri yet another reason not to use you tube if I can possibly avoid it.

witewulf@cyberplace.social

@gimulnautti @Geri oh, you do not want to start that argument. Although given you're raising it at all I guess you're fully aware of how problematic it is

tanquist@masto.ai

@Geri
I spent a month in the VA hospital 12 years ago and was surprised to see Al Jazeera was one of the channels I could watch. I was impressed by the quality of their news reporting and other programming. It reminded me of CNN's early days before it became commercialized trash.

nitpicking@mstdn.party

@Geri I don't know the details, and I'm certainly not familiar with the details of the situation, but: Google (YouTube) is hardly able to ignore Israeli law, agree or disagree. They've blocked, e. g., Kurdish nationalist (and those accused of being Kurdish nationalist) organizations in Turkey before.

I am a Google-avoider, not a fan of the company at all, but they aren't above the law and shouldn't be.