Technology

Israel's social media propaganda campaign has been super well-funded and is geared to really make people think that Hamas are the only bad guys here.

Just last night I was watching youtube with my kids and there was a commercial that showed horrible stuff in support of Israel.

tbf, getting it off the major mainstream platforms would make it less likely for the really young'uns to stumble on it.

So you're saying there's no way to stop it?

There are ways to teach and prevent the atrocities of war, without subjecting someone to those atrocities first or second hand.

The world needs fewer folks with PTSD, thanks. Not more.

This divorces it from context. There is no point showing children context-free images of atrocities except to terrify them. Even within context, it's really not the best thing to show children under a certain age. My family is Jewish and my father lived through WWII in Britain waiting to be invaded and thrown into a concentration camp, so he made sure I saw Holocaust images when I was pretty young and I can't look at images of atrocities anymore because they disturb me too much and give me vivid nightmares. I even have trouble with horror movies. I basically avoid them. That's not how you let a child know what war is or what genocide is.

It'd be a damn shame if your kids saw what the world you brought them into is like.

Well, has that historically worked?

Not sure any of us should, tbh

Yea. Good luck on that. Just like everything else some parents let kids do it and then the whole peer pressure things happen. Plus how the hell are they going to learn to be responsible when they are old enough unless they have some sort of exposure?

Abstinence is a novel concept but it is not at all practical. Kids are part of society and will be part of the adults within a decade. I think it's far better to teach them how to navigate what is going on rather than throwing blinders on them.

I thought parents from my generation would be better equipped to ensure their kids have safe use of technology but somehow they are even more clueless than my parents were. Yet my grandpa has dementia but can use his Linux computer to bet on horse races online. Most people are just not fit for internet exposure or computers and phones in general and will get more fucked up by it and there isn't any realistic solution.

Some people are better at avoiding ads than others

I haven't seen graphic images in... basically forever. It's been at least half a year

its mostly on telegram, reddit enacted a sitewide ban on images from that conflict {even though there is plenty of ukraine footage) 5 days ago

They have to go about this route ~~to reach the kids~~ so kids won't see stuff, but nevertheless hear about them to have an opinion:

Israeli Government: 'Genocidal rage face under the reasonable face mask' We have a right to defend ourselves by bombing civilians because of x reasons

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U.S. President: Our allies have a right to defend themselves against terrorist attacks

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Mainstream media: Holocaust survivors facing the same horrors at the hands of Palestinian terrorists must take every measure to defend themselves

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Parents watching mainstream media only: Look how these barbarian Arabs without blue eyes and blonde hair are causing never before seen atrocities

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Kids

What about footage from every war in the last decade or so?..

They (those who wrote the article and those making such warnings) are just trying to stay in trend.

My tiktok feed is incredibly unkind to Israel with the footage of children either dead or weeping at the hospital beds of their parents. That is why this is happening. That is why they shut off the Internet and electricity in Gaza and that is why they want you to shut off your Internet as well. If you see what is happening in Gaza there's a real possibility that global public opinion turns incredibly hard on the Israeli government.

I've seen about 5 reporters break down crying on tiktok. I watched a doctor treating a patient learn about his children dying in an airstrike. This isn't even graphic content. It is the raw human emotion and fear. Palestinians are putting out their goodbyes on social media and it's heartbreaking.

The Israeli government is a far right fascist government and it knows it can't survive without Western support. This time it's already well out what they're doing. Even their defense of saying they have to fight against Hamas is ringing hollow. You can't decry the death of Israeli civilians and then the world watches you bomb ambulances on Facebook.