We Have Come To A Point Where I Think We Need To Acknowledge That Social Media Moderation As A Concept

we have come to a point where i think we need to acknowledge that social media moderation as a concept is completely broken - rules are created by well meaning people for good reasons, but because of the infeasibility of human moderators actually giving each of these cases due diligence and making a decision that is widely agreed with, it’s largely just automated. it comes down to whoever hits the report button more and when. with social media as a whole being fractured into all of these individual corporate entities with no cohesive unifying operating procedures, there is probably no good solution to this other than moving away from social media platforms and focusing on smaller self-contained / community run online groups.

we’re probably already seeing this happening with the massive popularity of discord communities while social media companies flounder and shrivel up around us. as a matter of fact we have already seen this happen for most of the internet’s existence - they were called “Forums”. it’s pretty obvious that social media was only really good at facilitating the creation of these pockets of community anyways, but the nature of social media as a “platform” that must be as profitable as possible only ever forced these social clusters together in a way that drove engagement via arguments.

as hard as it is to imagine for people who grew up in a world where the default state of being online was competing for massive attention in full view of the entire public on these massive platforms, it’s probably going to be looked back on as a short-lived and failed experiment.

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Live coverage of the 29th of February 2024 has now begun.

UNRWA chief laments ‘another day from hell’ in Gaza
UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says Gaza has experienced “another day from hell” as the death toll in the Israeli war on Hamas has surpassed 30,000 and as Israeli forces opened fire on hungry Palestinians waiting for food aid.

For weeks, aid groups have warned that severe Israeli restrictions on humanitarian assistance in northern Gaza were contributing to extreme hunger and a collapse of civil order.

“Another day from hell. Gaza reaches an unprecedented reported death toll of 30,000 Palestinians killed, while an additional 100 people are reportedly killed and 700 injured when they were desperately trying to get lifesaving humanitarian aid from a convoy,” Lazzarini said in a social media post.

“Neither UNRWA nor any other UN agency were involved in this distribution. When will this madness end?”

Israeli protesters continue to block Gaza aid, demand settlement of the strip
As Palestinians count the dead after a reported Israeli attack on a crowd of people waiting for humanitarian assistance in northern Gaza, Israeli protesters are again trying to block aid from entering the strip, where humanitarian groups say the threat of famine continues to spread amid widespread Israeli restrictions on vital humanitarian assistance.

“Israeli protesters again blocked aid trucks en route to Gaza via [the Karem Abu Salem] Kerem Shalom crossing,” the Israeli rights group Gisha said in a social media post. Israeli soldiers have done little to dissuade the protesters, who have blocked the crossing during similar demonstrations over the past several weeks.

Israeli journalist Oren Ziv also reported that right-wing Israeli settlers entered the Erez crossing with Gaza, calling on the government to allow them to settle the strip. In a video shared by Ziv, soldiers stand by or talk with the crowd as settlers work to build a structure in the background.

Hezbollah claims rocket attack on Israeli town
The group says it fired two rockets at Goren in northern Israel in response to the killing of two Lebanese civilians yesterday and in support of Palestinians in Gaza.

An Israeli air raid on the south Lebanon village of Kafra had killed an elderly couple in their home on Wednesday night.

Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza
The kingdom’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it strongly denounces the killings by Israeli forces of dozens of civilians awaiting aid convoys in northern Gaza.

The ministry called for an “immediate ceasefire” to mitigate the humanitarian crisis and urged the international community to “take a strong position to compel Israel to respect international humanitarian law”.

Two Israelis killed in shooting at occupied West Bank settlement
Several Israeli media outlets have cited the Israeli military as saying that two people have been killed in the attack at the illegal settlement of Eli.

The Israeli army said the attackers were “eliminated”.

We will bring you more information on this incident when it becomes available.

Israeli media: settlers breached Erez crossing, entered Gaza
Israeli journalists for the outlets Haaretz and Times of Israel have reported that Israeli protestors broke through the Erez crossing and entered Gaza, where some have demanded a restoration of Israeli settlements.

Haaretz reported that a crowd of protestors “broke through” a military checkpoint and entered Gaza, with the Israeli military stating that it is working with the Israeli police to arrest them. Crowds of right-wing Israelis have gathered at crossings to block aid into Gaza for weeks. Israeli soldiers have mostly taken few steps to disperse them.

“Some of the activists managed to reach some 500 meters deep into Gaza, according to a military source,” Emanuel Fabian, a reporter with TOI, said in a social media post.

Rights group says 17-year-old Palestinian boy killed near Nablus was shot in the back
The Palestine branch of the rights group Defense for Children International has said that a 17-year-old was killed by Israeli forces near the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank this morning, noting that he was shot in the back.

“Bashar Nihad Abdulatif Hanani, 17, was shot in the back by Israeli forces around 1am this morning during a military incursion into the Palestinian town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank,” the group said in a report on the incident.

“Bashar was standing on a wall near the Friendship Medical Center, allegedly throwing stones towards Israeli soldiers located about 25 to 35 meters [82 to 115 feet] away. Israeli forces fired live ammunition toward Bashar, causing him to fall from the wall, which was about 1.5 meters [5 feet] tall. Palestinian paramedics carried Bashar into the medical center, then transferred him in an ambulance to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus. Doctors pronounced Bashar dead around 1:30am.”

UN Security Council to meet on Gaza aid shooting
The United Nations’ top body will meet today at 21:15 GMT to discuss the 112 people killed and 760 wounded in an Israeli attack in north Gaza. This meeting will be held at the request of Algeria, and will be a closed session.

Lebanese PM says Gaza ceasefire would trigger Israel border talks
A halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip, which could come as early as next week, would trigger indirect talks to end hostilities along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has told Reuters.

Mikati said he was confident that the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah would cease fire if Israel did the same, ending nearly five months of cross-border shelling and air raids.

He added that US special envoy Amos Hochstein was “preparing for visits to Lebanon soon”.

Israel has crossed ‘all lines’
Commenting on the deadly Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza earlier today, Tamer Qarmout of the Doha Institute says Israel has been using starvation and aid as a “weapon” from day one against civilians in the besieged territory.

“Israel has crossed all the lines when it comes to abiding by any moral conduct in any war,” he told Al Jazeera.

“It can do what it wants because there it has impunity. So there’s no accountability … and the international community is totally paralysed. There’s nothing they can do.”

Moreover, Qarmout said its “outrageous” for Israeli forces to claim they feel threatened by aid-seekers.

“They are the occupiers, they are the ones who invaded Gaza. They are the ones who have done all this killing and destruction,” he asserted.

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1 year ago

Ramadan is coming up and I can’t stress enough how much Palestinians have never got the chance to experience one normal Ramadan for 75years

You may not have been subjected to this, but as a person from an Arabic country, every Ramadan from every year there’s always headlines of Israeli iof soldiers or Israeli extremist settlers attacking Palestinians during Ramadan, especially Palestinian worshipers trying to pray in the al aqsa mosque

It’s happens almost every single year

Ramadan is suppoused to be Muslim people’s month of worship, of Baraka and it is very important to Muslim people

But Palestinians never ever experienced a normal Ramadan because Israel attacks them Viciously

Almost

Every

Single

Fucking

Year

And I will dare and say that Israel does it on purpose, it does it every Ramadan on purpose

And now, this year, with Ramadan being only a few weeks away, I doubt that they’ll have a normal Ramadan, not in the West Bank, and not in Gaza

All what I have to say here is that Israel will still follow this trend, something bad is gonna happen this Ramadan, keep an eye on Palestine during Ramadan

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1 year ago

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11 months ago

alright, sleep time for me I'm gonna put on my bedtime music

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