The faceless/nameless writer did not say where this meeting took place and when, didnt give direct links so readers could verify for themselves. The way that its written initially gave me the impression that was just another baseless rumor put out by a Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Israel rag.
With that said, a meeting did take place and what the writer failed to disclose is that the meeting was about videos that incite people to violence, there was no mention of "censorship" or removing videos. The press release did mention that the DFM was briefed on systems that identify videos that incite violence.
DFM Hotovely meets with YouTube CEO and Google Director of Public Policy
"Deputy FM Hotovely: We are engaged daily in confronting incitement to violence, a task which can benefit greatly from the cooperation of those companies that are involved in social media."
As part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' campaign against online incitement, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely met with Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki and with Jennifer Downes, Director of Public Policy at Google at the company's Silicon Valley offices.
Deputy Minister Hotovely was briefed on the companies' system for identifying video clips which incite to violence.
In the meetings, Hotovely raised the problem of incitement which goads small children to go out and stab innocents:
"The daily stabbings in Israel are a result of young boys and girls who are indoctrinated from an early age in the Palestinian education system and through social media. We are engaged daily in confronting incitement to violence, a task which can benefit greatly from the cooperation of those companies that are involved in social media."
DFM Hotovely: We are engaged daily in confronting incitement to violence, a task which can benefit greatly from the cooperation of those companies that are involved in social media.
Source:
http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2015/Pages/DFM-Hotovely-meets-with-YouTube-CEO-and-Google-Director-of-Public-Policy-24-November-2015.aspx
Should any government whether it be Saudi Arabia, Israel, The UK, Russia, Turkey or the US be involved in making backroom deals to potentially censor videos, absolutely not but this is just the natural progression of things and lets be honest here, these governments already have operatives in key positions at various tech companies to take down content among other things.
At least Israel is being open and honest in this case but whats really scary is the fact that many youtube accounts that upload Police brutality videos end up being terminated at an alarming rate.
The Erik Garner video:
Video of a male NYPD cop grabbing a woman and slamming her face first into the ground
Video of a female Indian reservation cop tasering an unresponsive man
Racine WI SWAT shooting small dog in the back
Ervin Leon Edwards being beaten and tasered in jail all over wearing saggy pants in public
Francis Jared Pusok beating by multiple deputies
I know this because I've linked to these videos before like in this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5429436
and I'm shocked at how many videos have been purged from youtube and the accounts terminated.
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