The Online Safety Act, sold as child protection, now hides Gaza’s pain, silences dissent and spreads censorship.
  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1712·
    1 month ago

    I agree with the premise, but it’s more than a bit of irony that this is coming from Al Jazeera.

      • manualoverride@lemmy.world
        133·
        1 month ago

        A news channel created by the state of Qatar and initially staffed by ex BBC presenters who were paid massive amounts to attempt to astroturf over their human rights abuses and corruption.

        Edit: forgot to add, Qatar also imposes censorship on journalism and uses Al Jazeera to push their “truth”. Hence the irony.

        • PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml
          31·
          1 month ago

          Totally fair. I personally think Al Jazeera has been a positive force, spreading the word on the Gaza Genocide, the Sudanese massacres & conflict, and their unapologetic leftism. And the Qatar government hosted peace talks between Israel and Palestinian groups. I have never heard that BBC presenter thing though.

    • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      62·
      1 month ago

      Would you make this same comment if it were coming from literally any other major source seeing as censorship is widespread in major news networks? Or is it just veiled racism?

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        1 month ago

        What an absolute load of nonsense. I have spent a decent amount of time in Qatar. I watched what were effectively slaves working away to build stadiums and hotels. It is a fair statement to point out the irony of a place with very strong censorship criticise censorship.

        If the BBC lauded a foreign country for the equivalent of bloody Sunday I would point that out too so honestly just jog on.

        Edit: just to reiterate, I agreed with the premise up front. It’s not a bad article. That doesn’t take away from a censorship heavy regime criticising censorship through their mouthpiece and I fully acknowledge that AJ is generally decent so no, it’s not racism.

        • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
          31·
          1 month ago

          I agreed with the premise up front. It’s not a bad article. That doesn’t take away from a censorship heavy regime criticising censorship through their mouthpiece and I fully acknowledge that AJ is generally decent so no, it’s not racism.

          “I swear, I’m not talking about crime just because I passed a random person of color. Being anti crime is a total rational thought to bring up, and I just find the topic interesting and worth talking about at this particular moment is all. That person we passed was actually a really chill dude, and the fact that I said that makes me not a racist”