31.05.2017 - 07:36 [ Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man / +972 Magazine ]

How Israel is trying to enforce gag orders beyond its borders

(9.8.2016) Because I am writing this from Israel, I am legally forbidden from telling you what Silverstein’s original tweet said. I can’t even tell you the specific legal reason why I can’t tell you what I can’t tell you.

What I can say is that as the use of military censorship in Israel has become less common and less sweeping over the years, authorities are increasingly using court gag orders to control the flow of information in the country. Often times those gag orders cover the very existence of the gag order itself.