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Israeli lawsuits against Facebook for providing jihadis a platform skyrocket

Mar 2, 2017 9:40 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

While Facebook is being sued for providing a platform for jihadists “involved in the ‘stabbing intifada’” against innocent Israelis, the social media giant has apparently been all too busy playing thought police by cranking down on harmless conservatives. According to “former Facebook workers,” they “routinely suppressed conservative news,” including stories that were trending on major news sites. The “news curators” were ordered to “artificially inject selected stories into the trending news mode,” even if they were unpopular.

Media and social media collusion has become the norm, to the detriment of the people, whose thoughts are being manipulated via lies by omission.

Facebook even reportedly banned a Trump supporter last May for complaining that the social media site was censoring “right wing activists,” thereby proving his point.

“Terrorism Cases Against Facebook Reach Climax”, by Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post, March 2, 2017:

American-Israeli Richard Lakin, [sic] told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that he is “outraged” at Facebook for pretending that it has zero tolerance for terrorism.

He spoke minutes after a climactic hearing in a terrorism lawsuit against the social media giant.

Lakin was one of the original plaintiffs in a 2015 lawsuit filed by a group of 20,000 Israelis against Facebook for providing a platform for terrorists involved in the “stabbing intifada,” and demanding an injunction ordering the firm to act more forcefully against terrorist incitement on its pages.

Wednesday’s hearing was the final one in a US federal court in Brooklyn before the judge decides whether Shurat Hadin – Israel Law Center, representing the plaintiffs, has found the first-ever legal silver bullet for breaking what has been an impenetrable barrier protecting Facebook from terrorism lawsuits.

Lakin was wounded and later died from his wounds in an attack by two Palestinians armed with a knife and a gun on a Jerusalem bus in fall 2015.

The 20,000 plaintiffs’ case is combined with a $1 billion damages case on behalf of the families of five victims, including US Army veteran Taylor Force, of the terrorist group Hamas.

Facebook had filed a motion to dismiss both cases arguing that, like all prior similar terrorism cases against it, the US Communications Decency Act (1996) bars all legal claims against it for posts by third parties using its platform – a defense that has proved unbeatable to date.

Shurat Hadin has argued that Facebook was not the intended target of the Communications Decency Act, which was focused on publishing, and that the social media platform has powerful algorithms it could use to catch and take down incitement and terrorist communications.

One relatively novel issue is the NGO’s attempt to use the US Anti-Terrorism Act against Facebook and to define the company as providing material support for terrorism by letting terrorists use its platform, instead of merely accusing Facebook of failing to control incitement, a less serious charge.

Shurat Hadin has admitted that the only court decision to date on this issue, earlier in 2016, went in favor of Facebook, but has claimed that case was “plainly wrongly decided and an outlier,” since a terrorism claim, unlike an incitement claim, relates not to publishing content, but to providing services.

The argument is that even if Facebook is not actively publishing third parties’ content, it is actively providing them the service of its platform.

Avni also told the Post that he “continued to be outraged by Facebook’s behavior… While this is a lawsuit about a specific issue of law, that they shouldn’t provide services to terror organizations, there is a basic ethical question that they shouldn’t help terrorists and allow them to operate freely on their platform.”

He added, “Facebook’s lawyer started his speech saying it has zero tolerance for terror. But the big dirty secret is that they make a ton of money from it. Facebook is getting lots of traffic and selling ads – the quantity of jihadists’ traffic is big and they get a lot of money out of it.”

Shurat Hadin’s New York counsel Robert Tolchin said, “Our case transcends” the Communications Decency Act, since “we are not talking about who published a post – we are talking about who provided services to a terror organization. Most of the judge’s questions [at the hearing] focused on that tension.”

Tolchin said he thought the judge came away with a view that the issue was more complicated than being able to just simply dismiss it because of the standard Communications Decency Act argument.

Shurat Hadin Director Nitsana Darshan- Leitner said, “The terrorist stabbing attacks throughout Israel and the murder of these innocent American and Israeli victims would never have occurred without the massive wave of incitement over social media.

“Facebook believes it is entitled to make billions of dollars annually while having no obligations to police its web pages and filter out calls to murder innocent Jews worldwide,” she added….

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Filed Under: Featured, Hamas, Internet jihad, Israel Tagged With: Facebook, Jerusalem Post, Nitsana Darshan- Leitner, Shurat Hadin Law Center, stabbing intifada


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  1. Oliver says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:11 am

    If a member of Zuckerberg’s family is stabbed or shot or killed by a terrorist then they might change.

    • Guest says

      Mar 2, 2017 at 4:26 pm

      Nope. Gutmenschen even put up with terrible pain and suffering for a ‘good cause’, and have endless Stockholm syndrome to find their own guilt for being white/being non-muslim/being israeli/being German/being well-off.. etc…

  2. Dan says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:20 am

    Bout time we lit that candle.

  3. Buford says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:41 am

    Zuckerberg it has been stated has converted to Islam which would explain his crazy actions such as blocking news stories & articles that do not portray Islam in a positive light. He is a Dam fool either way.

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 10:36 am

      Zuckrberg is ONE Jew the Jihadis WANT Alive
      Imagine WITHOUT Zuckerberg, ,WHAT a Better World we would have.
      And perhaps people would live in the Physical World
      Zuckerberg ENABLES Freedom’s Enemies, and Chaos
      And ALL of his money will NOT BUY HIM OUT of Hell

  4. no_one says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 10:53 am

    FB only censors conservatives. Jihadis are okay to post anything.

  5. Dirka D says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    Facebook has become the Death Star of the internet. They deny everything that will have an adverse opinion of them.

    Facebook, YouTube , twitter and Microsoft signed an agreement on march 31 2016 with the EU to banish or censor a loosely worded agreement to ban “illegal hate speech”.

    If the jihadi’s are using Facebook as their platform to spread terrorism then why isn’t Facebook held accountable?

    Zuckerberg thinks he is invincible.
    Obey!

    • Polk1970 says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 10:41 am

      WHAT would happen IF Zuckerberg was ARRESTED FOR SEDITION,, Accomplice to EVERY Felony ENABLED by FB,including TERRORISM , and HELD WITHOUT BAIL AWAITING TRIAL??!!

      His money makes him a FLIGHT RISK

  6. Angemon says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 5:59 pm

    Facebook is a private company and they can give preference to/ban whomever they want for whatever reasons they please. I, for one, would have no problem with that, as long as it was openly advertised: “Welcome to Facebook, a network open to all people so they can express themselves. Right-wingers need not apply, jihadi murderers are welcome, deviating from the official Party line makes you a racist and we’ll ban you. Did we say jihadi murderers are welcome?”

  7. Marcello Luciano says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 7:08 pm

    I was banned 30 days because my comment apparently hurt a terrorist .I have all the document to prove it.

  8. JIMJFOX says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 3:12 am

    Using Facebook is tantamount to supporting terror. I have deleted my account on realising this.
    Similar for the other ‘social media’ sites, IMO. Doesn’t make any difference but what else can you do?

  9. Keith says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 4:03 am

    If the banks can be charged for providing financial services to terror organisations there is absolutely no reason why Facebook should not be charged with allowing terrorist groups to use its services.

    • underbed cat says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 5:17 pm

      At this point they, meaning facebook ,cannot use the freedom of speech excuse since he has removed all conservative….nope not conservative, but the facts about what is the motivating doctrine that inspires jihadists or soldiers of allah to act. The ten commandments might never make the grade but jihadi sharia law, open forum. All I can say is the Saudi investment to silence, and establish muslim students support groups to pretend tolerance has succeeded…..in deception.

    • underbed cat says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 5:25 pm

      At this point they, meaning facebook ,cannot use the freedom of speech excuse since he has removed all conservative….nope not conservative, but the facts about what is the motivating doctrine that inspires jihadists or soldiers of a…h to act The ten commandments might never make the grade but jihadi sharia law, open forum. All I can say is the Saudi investment to silence, and establish muslim students support groups to pretend tolerance has succeeded…..in deception. it is what it is.

  10. Jon says

    Mar 3, 2017 at 4:05 am

    I think we’ve all been victims of random over-zealous FB censors. I can never work out the rhyme or reason behind their rationale for banning some posts and not others.

    • Lioness says

      Mar 3, 2017 at 11:59 am

      Really? There is a simple explanation: Zuckerberg is a leftist fascist Jew, who hates Jews, hates Israel and hates Trump. He is a George Soros wannabe. He loves the “palestinian” murderers, supports jihad and islamists. That’s why FB promots some stories over others, to match their agenda.

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