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18.10.2024 - 20:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel reportedly cuts off communication networks in northern Gaza

Israeli forces have cut off communication and internet networks in northern Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

Israeli media has reported evidence that a plan to ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and kill any Palestinians who remain is underway.

29.08.2024 - 18:00 [ Middle East Eye ]

Electricity and water cut off for 48 hours in Jenin

„The situation is really, really bad. Food in out refrigerators has gone bad so we are forced to leave Jenin and take shelter with relatives outside the city.“

The resident said there was no internet or event the ability to charge phones. „It feels like Gaza‘s conditions,“ they added.

07.03.2024 - 19:59 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Taktik des Terrorkrieges: “Hate Speech” und Kontrolle

(27.01.2018)

Lüge, Betrug, Verrat, Vergewaltigung, Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung, Krieg, Genozid und deren strukturelle Manifestation durch Politik, Staat und Kapital zu hassen ist eine ganz normale menschliche Emotion. Sie kann allerdings genau dazu benutzt werden was sie bei Menschen normalerweise hervorruft.

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Des Weiteren gibt die Akzeptanz des politischen, letztlich unweigerlich repressiven Begriff “Hate Speech” (Hass-Sprache) repressiven Organen die Option einer maximal perfiden und zynischen Dialektik: mehr Lüge, mehr Betrug, mehr Verrat, mehr Vergewaltigung, mehr Mord, Folter, Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung und Krieg gegen Ausgelieferte und Hilflose anzuwenden, mit der ganz normalen menschlichen Reaktion der Betroffenen zu rechnen, diese einzukalkulieren, sogar gezielt zu provozieren und diese dann als “hateful” zu bezeichnen und noch mehr entsprechende Maßnahmen gegen diese anzuwenden, da diese ja “hateful” seien, abnormal und gefährlich.

10.02.2024 - 15:45 [ PalistanToday.com.pk ]

Delays spoil the party for PTI backed independents

Even after a lapse of more than seven hours, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has not given any reason for the delay leading to the expression of suspicions from contesting parties.

Prior to the elections, the electoral watchdog had introduced a new system called the Election Management System (EMS) to organize the results, but so far, the performance of the system has belied the ECP claims.

10.02.2024 - 15:31 [ Associated Press ]

Delays, deals, nepo babies, trends and vote rigging: Five takeaways from Pakistan’s elections

Candidates observing the count at polling stations said they saw significant leads suddenly disappear or results that were announced in their favor only to be reversed to declare an opponent the winner. They said they were marched off polling station grounds or barred from entering once voting ended and that polling agents were stopped from collecting results.

The majority of irregularities and impediments were reported by independent candidates backed by imprisoned ex-premier Imran Khan’s party.

10.02.2024 - 13:44 [ Amnesty International ]

Pakistan: Election-day internet shutdown is a reckless attack on people’s rights

(08.02.2024)

On 6 February, Amnesty International and other members of the #KeepItOn coalition — a global network of over 300 organisations from 105 countries working to end internet shutdowns — wrote to the caretaker Prime Minister Mr Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar and Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, to ensure unfettered access to the internet, social media platforms, and all other communication channels throughout Pakistan’s general election.

Pakistani authorities have already imposed multiple shutdowns that violated the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, including of opposition leaders and parties, during this election cycle.

14.12.2023 - 21:42 [ NewArab.com ]

Internet, phone services cut off as Israeli onslaught on Gaza continues

All telecommunications and internet services in the Gaza Strip have gone down as a result of „the ongoing aggression“, Gaza‘s main telecommunications companies Paltel and Jawwal said on Thursday.

More updates to come.

16.11.2023 - 22:48 [ UNRWA, @UN Agency for Palestine Refugees / Twitter ]

From our #Gaza team @TomWhite: There will NOT be a cross-border aid operation at the Rafah Crossing tomorrow.

The communications network in #Gaza is down because there is NO fuel.

This makes it impossible to manage or coordinate humanitarian aid convoys.

16.11.2023 - 21:44 [ United Nations ]

Gaza: Lack of fuel threatening to shut down ‘entire’ humanitarian operation

In a wide-ranging briefing to journalists in Geneva, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini reiterated calls for a ceasefire and addressed misinformation targeting the agency, including claims that aid is being diverted.

He said he has also received reports of UN schools being used “for military purposes”.

During the briefing, Mr. Lazzarini said he had received reports that Gaza was under a communications blackout due to the lack of fuel.

He repeated his earlier warning that UNRWA is running out of fuel, thus putting lifesaving support to 2.2 million in Gaza at risk. Everything from aid delivery, to water supply, to even accessing cash from ATM machines will be impacted. (…)

While the agency received a “tiny shipment” of fuel – half a truck – on Wednesday, he said “it was delivered with conditionalities”. The fuel can only be used for trucks collecting goods arriving at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, meaning that water desalination plants, sewage pumping systems or bakeries will go without.

“As from yesterday 70 per cent of the population just in the south has no access anymore to clean water, and as of today, we have raw sewage starting to flow in the streets,” he said.

15.11.2023 - 07:24 [ Stewart Clark (Blue Tick Goes Here) / Twitter ]

UK Internet Censorship bill was passed a few weeks ago, you will see sweeping changes in censorship coming soon, all for your safety and protection of course

01.11.2023 - 11:54 [ Al Jazeera ]

Gaza suffers another communications blackout amid Israeli bombardment

Telecom provider Paltel reported a “complete disruption” of communications and internet services in Gaza on Wednesday morning.

The disruption comes after Israel imposed a near-complete communications blackout on Gaza from Friday to Sunday that lasted close to 36 hours.

01.11.2023 - 11:42 [ ABPlive.com ]

Israel-Hamas War: Foreigners Leave Gaza As Rafah Border Opens For First Time

Scores of people holding foreign passports left the war-torn Gaza for Egypt after the Rafah border crossing opened for the first time since the beginning of the war on October 7, reported AFP. Scores of people and cars moved through the gates as Gaza suffered „complete interruption of all communications and internet services” for a second time, reported Al Jazeera.

30.10.2023 - 03:10 [ @UNarabic / Twitter ]

„الناس خائفون ومحبطون ويائسون. وتتفاقم التوترات والخوف بسبب انقطاع خطوط الهواتف والاتصالات عبر الإنترنت. إنهم يشعرون بأنهم بمفردهم، معزولون عن عائلاتهم داخل غزة وبقية العالم“.

11.10.2023 - 14:09 [ Times of Israel ]

COGAT chief addresses Gazans: ‘You wanted hell, you will get hell’

In a video statement, Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian, head of COGAT, says: “Kidnapping, abusing and murdering children, women and elderly people is not human. There is no justification for that. Hamas has turned into ISIS, and the residents of Gaza, instead of being appalled, are celebrating.

“Human animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water [in Gaza], there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell.”

26.09.2023 - 10:15 [ Glenn Greenwald / threadreaderapp.com ]

Not only is corporate media like @AP predictably running hit pieces on Rumble for its crime of not obeying censorship orders of the neoliberal establishment, but British media outlets are explicitly threatening that Rumble will be banned from the UK under its repressive new law:

18.09.2023 - 19:17 [ Wired.co.uk ]

The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up

(15.05.2023)

WIRED contacted nine of the UK’s internet service providers and telecom companies asking about their abilities to create and store people’s internet connection records. Eight did not respond to the request for comment. TalkTalk, the only one that did, said it will “meet its obligations” under UK law but couldn’t “confirm or deny” whether ICRs existed.

18.09.2023 - 18:41 [ NewStatesman.com ]

Cameron’s internet filter goes far beyond porn – and that was always the plan

(23 December 2013)

Through secretive negotiations with ISPs, the coalition has divided the internet into ‚acceptable‘ and ‚unacceptable‘ categories and cut people off from huge swathes of it at the stroke of a key.

18.09.2023 - 18:32 [ Techcrunch.com ]

UK Advisor Involved In Britain’s Internet Filter Arrested For Child Porn

(Mar 4, 2014)

Britain has come under fire for its Internet filtering program, which can inadvertently block sensitive culture topics that overlap with common porn terms. The program accidentally “led to the creation of filters that not only cover hardcore pornography, but hate speech, self-harm, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, dating, nudity, violence, gambling, social networking, file-sharing, games and more,” explained Wired UK.

Despite the embarrassing arrest, there is no announced plan to revise the Internet filtering program.

21.08.2023 - 13:53 [ Zentralkomitee der Kommunistischen Partei Kubas ]

US-Blockade bleibt Haupthindernis für bessere Konnektivität

Unter dem Vorwand, Havanna stelle eine Bedrohung für die Sicherheit der Vereinigten Staaten dar, wurde das Unterwasserkabelsystem ARCOS-1 USA Inc., das 24 Punkte in 15 Ländern des Kontinents miteinander verbindet, daran gehindert, Kuba in dieses Netz einzubeziehen.
Dies verhinderte, dass Kuba Verbindungen mit Betreibern direkt auf nordamerikanischem Territorium herstellen konnte, wo sich die wichtigsten Verbindungsknoten befinden. Daher ist die kubanische Telekommunikationsgesellschaft gezwungen, das Netz mit Punkten im Vereinigten Königreich, Jamaika und Venezuela zu erweitern, was Millionen von Dollar an Kosten verursacht.