Tag: Media Restriction

Israel has Haaretz newspaper in its sights as it tightens screws on media freedom – Pearls and Irritations

News reporter interviewing censored eyewitness person Image: iStock / :chameleonseye

The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza.

Source: Israel has Haaretz newspaper in its sights as it tightens screws on media freedom – Pearls and Irritations

What we’re doing to protect your privacy: +972 and HTTPS | +972 Magazine

As part of our commitment to promoting freedom of information and fighting censorship, we recently added an important layer of encryption to our website. Here’s why we did it, and what it means for you. Over the past year we at +972 Magazine have dedicated significant resources into expanding our journalistic focus on censorship, freedom of information, and online free speech issues in Israel and Palestine. [tmwinpost] We have covered attempts to impose military censorship on Israeli bloggers and social media users, the expanding use of gag orders, we’ve exposed the previously uknown scope of censorship in Israel, the arbitrary…

Source: What we’re doing to protect your privacy: +972 and HTTPS | +972 Magazine