The bill to prevent advertising on social networks has been approved: "Terrible danger to democracy"

According to the proposal, which passed a preliminary reading with a majority of 58 MKs, a judge who would be authorized could oblige a content publisher on the Internet to remove him if he decided that the publication contained a criminal offense or that content endangered a person's peace of mind. "Become censors"

Yaki Adamkar

08/12/2021

Wednesday, 08 December 2021, 13:31 Updated: 13:47

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In the video: The Facebook law was passed on first reading Netanyahu knocked on the table (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman)

The Knesset plenum approved in a preliminary reading the bill to prevent the commission of offenses by publishing on the Internet (removal of content), 2021 by Member of Knesset Meir Yitzhak-Halevi and a group of Knesset members.

The proposal includes that a judge empowered to do so may issue an order requiring a content publisher to remove content from his or her website if he or she is convicted of a criminal offense by publishing the content or if in the circumstances the publication is likely to endanger a person's mental well-being.

Likud and Netanyahu MKs raise their voices in the plenum today (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Noam Moskowitz)

It is also written that "some people use the Internet to commit offenses, such as: publishing incitement to violence, sexual offenses, publications that unjustifiably infringe on a person's privacy, publications that could harm a person's dignity and soul and shame, etc. We have recently been exposed to social networks themselves. "Consciously cooperating with injuries and damage done to their home field due to economic considerations and competition with other networks."

"Recently, there has been a global trend of increasing the use of the Internet for the purpose of publishing harmful content. This trend has led, among other things, to an increase in the level of violence in various countries around the world. "It has been dealing with this phenomenon lately, and therefore the expansion of the legal toolbox is needed to deal with it."

"This is the law for closing the mouths of the right"

During the plenary debate, before the vote, the spirits flared and representatives of the right-wing parties protested. Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said from his seat as he knocked on the table: "I want to tell you how absurd and dangerous this thing is, are you talking about democracy? Terrible danger. "

MK Bezalel Smutrich objected:" This is the law to block the mouths of the right, after that you took over most of the institutionalized media in the State of Israel. "You can express yourself in it and it has freedom of expression, you will also shut up. You will call everything incitement, you will call everything a call for violence. You are going in a dictatorial bill today to become censors of freedom of expression on social networks in the State of Israel."

MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi: "For the past three years, I have been dealing with the issue of violence on social networks as a public figure as an educator and even as a victim.

Unfortunately, social networks have become a convenient and dangerous easy platform for encouraging and creating violence, incitement, extortion, threats, sexual harassment and the creation of de-legitimization, which works against victims from an early age to adolescence.

" Information, for legitimate criticism, for exercising legitimate public pressure and there is no doubt that their role is very important.

But unfortunately the situation today is far from normal and shows in my eyes a loss of control and complete chaos.

I see this serious phenomenon as the most difficult social problem that Israeli society has been going through in recent years. "

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