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Al Jazeera's Israeli office has been shuttered on World Press Freedom Day.
All eyes on Rafah.
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On World Press Freedom Day, there is no better expression for this day than what was drawn by the martyr Naji Al-Ali.
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when everyone is talking about rafah, and israel passing a law allowing them to ban al jazeera, and then immediately enacting on it. here are some numbers, compiled nicely into 2 graphs
the first graph, is the SCORE reporters without borders(RSF) gave to Israel, USA, and Russia, in their world press freedom index. (higher is better)
as you can see. there is a pretty big drop between 2021 and 2022, lets talk about that
In May of 2021 Israel had a military operation in gaza. on top of that, in march of 2021 israel had the 4th election since 2019, where the Likud got 24.19% of the votes, and Naftali bennett managing to form a coalition, making him the prime minister, ending the strike of netanyahu, which was the prime minister since february pf 2009, the coalition survived until November of 2022, where israel had the 5th election since 2019, the election that formed today’s government of israel, with netanyahu back as prime minister, the coalition is also known as the most extreme right wing government israel saw in years, if not in the entire history of Israel.
the next graph shows the POSITION of each country in the RSF world press freedom index(lower is better)
as you can see, israel slowly started to go downwards to a freer place, with better freedom of press, until 2022 when the current government formed. and haven’t shown any signs of slowing down the suppression of the press.
in 2020: 51 journalists were killed worldwide
in 2021: 48 journalists were killed worldwide
in 2022: 57 journalists were killed worldwide
in 2023: 45 journalists were killed worldwide, the lowest since 2002!!
since October 7th over 105 journalists were killed in gaza alone. easily getting us to triple digits, something that we haven’t seen in over a decade.
currently, any website of Al jazeera except ajplus is banned and blocked in israel. (I have no idea why ajplus wasn’t blocked, but I also haven’t looked around the website, i only found out it was a thing thanks to wikipedia)
changing your DNS server to openDNS seems to bypass the ban,
using VPN seems to bypass the ban,
using the tor browser (obviously) seems to bypass the ban.
I haven’t checked google’s DNS servers but it will probably bypass the ban too.
this post is all over the place, but CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT DNS SERVER
it is very easy! i use OpenDNS, they have great tutorials explaining how to change your DNS. and it WILL bypass most of the blocked sites if your country ever try to block a site.
#israel#palestine#al jazeera#RSF#reporters without borders#world press freedom day#world press freedom index#israel ban of journalism#gaza#all eyes on rafah#rafah
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Happy World Press Freedom Day!!
World Press Freedom Day is celebrated to raise awareness of the freedom of speech the press and journalists have and ensure that this will be followed for the years to come. Like Nadja and Alya, journalists should seek to discover and share the truth about the current situations, no matter the circumstances.
Graphics by KiMOCherry
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Just in time for May 3 being World Press Freedom Day a story about the Australian government warning women for correctly sexing a man
An Australian woman was reported to police after making posts on social media about a male who identifies as transgender participating in the women’s football league. Kirralie Smith was visited by New South Wales Police after speaking to media about Riley Dennis, a trans activist who had been the subject of mass complaint last month after reportedly injuring female players.
Police visited Smith on March 30 and handed her an Apprehended Violence Order (AVO) requiring that she does not discuss or approach Dennis – despite the fact that Smith lives over 200 miles from Dennis. The AVO acts as an interim order that will stand until a hearing later this month, at which point the court will decide whether it is justified.
Smith, a spokeswoman with an organization established to combat gender ideology, has been a vocal critic regarding gender self-identification in sports. Earlier this year, Smith mobilized supporters to participate in an email campaign that resulted in a total of over 12,000 complaints being submitted to authorities at Football New South Wales (FNSW). The complaints were largely related to Dennis, who is alleged to have injured female players at a match in March.
Speaking with Reduxx, Smith explained that she believed the AVO was carried out in response to social media posts she had made specifically highlighting Dennis’ participation in women’s competitions.
Included among the stipulations of the AVO lodged against Smith by Dennis are prohibitions against electronic harassment. As a result, her statements on social media have come under legal scrutiny and, in some cases, have been censored by an arm of the Australian government dedicated to combatting “cyber abuse.”
On February 20, Smith’s public Facebook page was removed at the request of Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant. Smith had set up the page in 2016 and used the platform to advocate for the rights of women and girls being harmed by gender identity policies. At the time of its deletion, Smith’s page had over 47,000 followers.
Smith expressed her shock and incredulity at the situation. If the court decides that the AVO is justified and that she has taken actions which breach the order, Smith could potentially have criminal charges leveled against her. However, she emphasized that she has received an outpouring of support.
“One good thing to come out of these difficulties is the way it draws women together. It isn’t about left or right, ethnicity or anything else. We are women and I now get to call some friends that I otherwise wouldn’t. Beauty from ashes,” Smith says.
The actions taken against Smith by eSafety Commissioner Grant are not the first instances of a government-endorsed push to digitally protect Dennis.
Last week, Reduxx was contacted by the eSafety Commissioner and advised to censor or delete an article naming Dennis as having been the subject of complaint after he was alleged to have injured female players during a match in March.
In the article targeted by the eSafety Commissioner, Reduxx had revealed that Dennis was one of as many as five trans-identified male players currently competing against women in Football New South Wales competitions. An initial report from The Daily Mail Australia had chosen not to identify him when reporting on the injuries he was alleged to have caused, censoring images of him and declining to provide his name. However, Reduxx confirmed the player’s identity using the censored images from The Daily Mail Australia report and cross-referencing them to Dennis’ social media.
Dennis was a popular trans activist YouTuber who amassed 113,000 subscribers on the platform. He has since stopped creating content but, during the height of his internet career, he received backlash for a controversial video in which he called “genital preferences” transphobic.
The video, titled Your Dating ‘Preferences’ Might Be Discriminatory and released in 2017, prompted outrage from lesbians who felt Dennis was attempting to guilt them into having sexual relationships with males.
In the video, Dennis, who identifies as a “transgender lesbian,” implied that sexual orientation is caused by societal prejudices and that it is discriminatory to exclude members of the opposite sex from your dating preferences if you are homosexual. Dennis deleted the video following widespread criticism.
In addition to Smith and Reduxx, pro-woman Reddit alternative Ovarit also received a censorship notice from the eSafety Commissioner.
Ovarit posted the full contents of the email they had received to their platform. Amongst the grievances the eSafety Commissioner listed, Ovarit was warned because its users had “referred to Riley Dennis’ first name as ‘Rapey’ instead of “Riley” and have referred to her surname as ‘Penis’ instead of ‘Dennis.'”
The eSafety Commissioner targeted individual Ovarit users in its email to the platform, and appears to be demanding the users either have their comments deleted or be suspended. The email ends: “Notwithstanding this request for removal, eSafety reserves the option of exercising our regulatory options under the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth).”
In addition to the censorship experienced by Smith, Reduxx, and Ovarit, concerned citizens and parents who have been participating in online discussions of Football New South Wales’ (FNSW) gender self-identification policy have been sent threatening “notices” urging them to remove social media posts.
A community that opposes the admission of males into female sports categories has congregated at the Facebook-based NSW NPL Banter Page.
A representative for the page spoke anonymously with Reduxx to confirm that there had been multiple reports from concerned individuals that the sporting authority had been warning critics that they may be “sanctioned” for their comments and posts on social media.
The NSW NPL Banter administrator was also sent an email notification of an “investigation” that FNSW claims to have opened into posts and comments made on the page. It stated that, according to 2023 FNSW’s Social Media Policy, a member of the organization “must not make public or media comment (including via social media) which is detrimental to Football New South Wales, Football Australia, their commercial partners or to the interests of the game.”
The message specified two posts which depicted “a participant with a phallus photoshopped onto their body” alongside the word “unacceptable” as evidence to support the investigation. It was further stated that comments considered subject to removal include those which “criticize” Football NSW, members or participants, or its policies.
The page’s creator also told Reduxx that, despite several attempts to share the article naming Dennis as a man playing on a women’s team, such posts were repeatedly deleted.
“We had put the article up on our Facebook page and it was deleted three times – after we had successfully challenged its removal two times previously,” the administrator said.
In the past few months, the page has published several posts critical of FNSW’s policy allowing men to compete against women. Though some have remained, many have been removed.
“Biological adult males and it’s not just one, it is several, are playing in NSW women’s state league competitions, which contain teenage girls and young women. Shame on those clubs, who have discarded any morals they might have had, just to sign these things, so as to be able to win, where’s the dignity? You put winning above respect for the competition,” the NSW NPL Banter Page wrote in a now-deleted post last month.
Responses to posts made on the page are overwhelmingly sympathetic to women and girls being forced to compete against men.
“I feel sorry for our young women who are at increased risk of injury and losing opportunities,” read one comment.
Referring specifically to Dennis, another concerned respondent said: “He put two girls in hospital and has scored 9 goals. What a joke.”
“The women who play this sport deserve better than playing with full grown adult men who have transitioned into women… This is cheating at the highest level and it angers me to my core,” said another commenter.
The issue of locker rooms was also brought up, as one woman replied, “What happens to a minor age female who is in the change room with a biologically born male in a senior team? Who is responsible for the duty of care toward those girls both on and off the field?”
On March 31, in response to demands from parents to ban trans-identified males from women’s matches for FNSW, Football Australia doubled down by announcing it would be developing a “transgender and gender-diverse high performance inclusion policy.”
The policy states that Football Australia intends to “deliver LGBTQI+ training and support resources to the football community” by way of a partnership with activist group Pride in Sport. “The aim of this training will be to provide the Australian Football community with a greater understanding of the lived experience of LGBTQI+ communities and their participation in sport,” the statement read.
On April 6, an individual who identifies himself as a referee stated in a forum dedicated to discussing Youth Football matches in the region that members of Football NSW were sent an email announcing an LGBTQ+ Online Training Session to be held the following week.
By Genevieve Gluck
Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.
#May 3#World Press Freedom Day#australia#New South Wales#Kirralie Smith Spoke the truth#Football New South Wales (FNSW)#Apprehended Violence Order (AVO)#Calling a man a man is now cyber abuse#ESafety Commissioner#Facebook#Reduxx#It’s the Your Dating ‘Preferences’ Might Be Discriminatory guy#Ovarit#The Australian government may not be able to tell a man from a woman but they know who to censor
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The 2023 World Press Freedom Index
180 countries and territories were analyzed. The top 3 highest-ranked countries are Norway, Ireland, and Denmark. 52 countries in the ranking have either a “satisfactory” or “good” situation of the press.
The lowest level of press freedom is observed in North Korea, China, and Vietnam. In 31 countries, there is a “very serious” situation of the press, while 42 fall under the “difficult” category.
(via The state of press freedom across the world in 2023 (map))
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World Press Freedom Day Event - Livestream and in-person from Bird & Beckett, San Francisco, CA.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 – 7pm Pacific
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY
“Don’t Hate the Media, Become the Media! How Your Local Story Can Inform The World”
A live streamed and in-person event with Lisa Loving, author of Street Journalist: Understand & Report the News in Your Community.
Journalist Lisa Loving wants you to know how you—with a cell phone, and a full understanding of the techniques, tools and ethics of journalism—can report on the stories around you and inform the world.
The intensity of individual, mob and institutional attacks on working journalists and their media outlets is unmistakable in our current age. World Press Freedom Day pushes back. So, too, does the work of many thousands of individuals locally and worldwide who take the tools of journalism in hand to accurately report the news they encounter in their day-to-day lives in order to responsibly and effectively inform their communities on issues of immense immediate importance.
After the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in 2020, the city of Portland, Oregon – one of the whitest towns in America – erupted in 200 days and nights of protest in support of the Black Lives Matter movement against racism and police violence. In the same moment, activists and observers – including everyday people who started out simply pointing their phones at the rapidly escalating police violence – launched a new movement in grassroots media. Their work landed in MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times and news outlets around the world.
What can we learn about the future of news from these grassroots pioneers of breaking news reporting? Can we build on their experience – and their work that continues today – in creating a smart, informative news media now?
And what about you?
What if you or someone you know had the tools to bring real information to the table and actually inform people – in your local community and beyond?
Join Lisa Loving, author of “Street Journalist: Understand and Report the News in Your Community,” for an intimate chat on tools YOU can use to create a media platform and bring your local story to the world.
Lisa Loving wrote the book on citizen journalism from lived experience in creating community media in Portland a decade ago. With the 2019 publication of Street Journalist, she made it her mission to make you realize that “the power of journalism is in your hands.” She writes “While many people believe there is some sort of special degree or license that makes a journalist ‘legitimate,’ the truth is that anyone with the interest, brains and organization can make a crucial difference with their voice.” She’s trained hundreds of ordinary people in the tools of independent journalism, making it clear, as has been demonstrated on far too many tragic occasions in recent years, that anyone with a smartphone has the basic equipment to report what’s going on in their neighborhood. This evening she’ll make those points tangible, and engage in dialog to clarify the issues.
DON’T HATE THE MEDIA, BECOME THE MEDIA
–Jello Biafra
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On May 3rd, We will observe the World Press Freedom Day 2023.
Spotlight the link between press freedom, freedom of expression and other rights.
This year’s Special 30th anniversary celebration of World Press Freedom Day is therefore a call to recentre press freedom, as well as independent, pluralistic and diverse media, as necessary key to the
enjoyment of all other human rights. This anniversary coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Conference and its Declaration and Programme of Action on Human Rights, which established
important institutions safeguarding human rights, and with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On this occasion, the global community will debate and set the agenda for both the development of human rights and how to protect them in an everchanging world, and World Press Freedom Day will serve as an opportunity to put a strong focus on freedom of expression within the overall human rights agenda.
World Press Freedom Day 2023 is thus an occasion to organize events that spotlight the link between press freedom, freedom of expression and other rights.
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On World Press Freedom day America still acts as if they are a beacon of democracy and cares about press freedom while they try to extradite and prosecute a journalist by the name of Julian Assange.
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05/03/2023 is International Leopard Day 🐆🌏, National Chocolate Custard Day 🍫🇺🇲, National Garden Meditation Day 🧘♀️🧘♂️🇺🇲, National Lumpy Rug Day 🇺🇲, National Paranormal Day 👻🇺🇲, National Raspberry Popover Day 🇺🇲, National Specially-Able Pets Day 🐰🐹🐱🐶🦜🇺🇲, National Two Different Colored Shoes Day 👞👠👟🇺🇲, National Bike to School Day 🚲🏫🇺🇲, World Press Freedom Day 📰🇺🇳
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No to the sound and video silencer
On World Press Freedom Day and every day, we must not forget that “Israel” and its tools have assassinated more than 250 male and female journalists since July 8, 1972 (the date of the assassination of the martyr Ghassan Kanafani).
More than half of them were assassinated during the current aggression on Gaza.
*These are some pictures of the martyrs of the Palestinian press..
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Vladimir Khakhanov 2 May 2023 - Russia
3 мая Всемирный день свободы печати
May 3 World Press Freedom Day
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30 Aniversario del Día Mundial de la Libertad de Prensa
https://www.unesco.org/es/days/press-freedom
https://bit.ly/DMLP2023
#DíaMundialDeLaLibertadDePrensa #DíaMundialDeLaLibertadDePrensa2023 #LibertadDePrensa #ProtegerALosPeriodistas #TodoVaBien
World Press Freedom Day 30th Anniversary
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
https://bit.ly/2023WPFD
#WorldPressFreedomDay #WorldPressFreedomDay2023 #WPFD #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists #EverythingIsAlright
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30 Aniversario del Día Mundial de la Libertad de Prensa
https://www.unesco.org/es/days/press-freedom
https://bit.ly/DMLP2023
#DíaMundialDeLaLibertadDePrensa #DíaMundialDeLaLibertadDePrensa2023 #LibertadDePrensa #ProtegerALosPeriodistas #TodoVaBien
World Press Freedom Day 30th Anniversary
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom
https://bit.ly/2023WPFD
#WorldPressFreedomDay #WorldPressFreedomDay2023 #WPFD #PressFreedom #ProtectJournalists #EverythingIsAlright
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World Press Freedom Day
World Press Freedom Day commemorates the active freedom of speech, where every individual, especially journalists, are not repressed and unafraid of their right to vocalise prominent societal issues. In the year 2024, where the digital era actively is heavily utilized to share information, mis-, dis-, and mal- information are rampant. Journalists are heavily scrutinised for their active role in advocating for climate reformation and effective policies due to such media and information disorders. Hence, this year commemorates the efforts of those journalists who combat misleading and false information with regards to environmental issues.
For more information:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day#:~:text=In%202024%2C%20World%20Press%20Freedom,the%20current%20global%20environmental%20crisis
https://mediacouncil.or.ke/services/signature-events/world-press-freedom-day
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