The article talks about the how the interior and justice minister of Israel held a meeting with officials from Facebook as they would believe that the social media websites should be a lot more responsible for the things people post on the social media. Their reasoning for this is that a lot of the violence that is caused against the government and the unrest between Israelis and Palestinians is due to incitement of violence on social media. Due to this they want to create legislation which holds social media companies accountable and possibly give them fines for not dealing with inciteful behaviour in the first place.
- Israel submitted 158 requests to Facebook to remove inciting content
- 13 requests to YouTube
- Facebook granted some 95% of the requests
- YouTube granted 80%
Personally, I think this is something that is a little absurd. I believe that social media companies already have enough rules in place which handle the inciteful behaviour adequately, and if they're aren't then I believe that the companies adequately come up with regulations and checks for their users and handle cases accordingly. However, by forcing legislation it starts to limit free speech and borderlines on the idea of censorship which I believe goes against the very concept of democracy.
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