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Template:Icu The Jewish Internet Defense Force (JIDF) is an online organization that tries to remove material from the Internet which its members believe promotes or praises terror and racial hatred, including in particular sites they deem to be anti-Semitic and anti-Israel in nature. The group has focused its attention specifically on Facebook, YouTube, Google Earth, and Misplaced Pages.

Background

See also: Social networking, User-generated content, Web 2.0, and New media
File:Jidf fb sample.jpg
A screenshot from the JIDF's official Facebook group. The images shows links to other Facebook groups, which the JIDF finds objectionable. Under each link is a comment, containing the rhetorical question " legitimate political discourse?".

Social networking web sites allow users to create and share content online. Social networking sites often provide a mechanism to report content that may be contrary to a site's Acceptable Use Policy, however Moderation by site administrators may be slow or non existant due to the large volume of rapidly changing content. Social networking sites are sometimes used as a forum to promote hate and terrorism. In some cases delays in removing content have cause expressions of concern and threats from users to quit.

Activities

The JIDF (which has a name that is similar to the Israeli Defense Force) encourages e-mail campaigns to site administrators to inform them about content which they deem to be objectionable and contrary to that site's acceptable use policies. Its members also join Facebook groups (which are similar to forums) to "take over" that group by means which the JIDF does not specify on their site. They state that such methods do not violate a site's acceptable use policies.

The JIDF created a Facebook group entitled "FACEBOOK: Why do you aid and abet terrorist organizations?", where it organized its members to communicate with Facebook administrators about a number of Facebook groups which they accused of violating Facebook's terms of use, successfully leading to the closure of over 100 of these groups. The JIDF says they began taking control of a number of groups, most notably the Facebook group "Israel is not a country! Delist it from Facebook as a country" after Facebook administrators declined to shut the group down. According to the JIDF, Facebook's inaction came "despite thousands of user complaints over the course of eighteen months". The "Israel is not a country…" group had previously been explorer and described as anti-semitic in an report as well as in the press. Since the JIDF intervention the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism (CFCA) has highlighted the issue by including a Telegraph article on the topic in its archive. The Anti Defamation League (ADL) cite the group as an example of anti-Semitism on Facebook and describe it as "strongly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic". The press have also increased coverage.

See also

References

  1. ^ "JIDF Response to Misplaced Pages". Aug 5, 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. Military warns soldiers not to post info on Facebook, CBC News, February 25, 2008
  3. Simon Wiesenthal Center, iReport, Online Terror + Hate: The first decade, May 16, 2008
  4. Heather Havenstein, Hate 2.0: Hate groups, terrorists tap Web 2.0 to spread messages, Computerworld, May 28, 2008
  5. Catholic News Agency, Facebook members threaten to quit over anti-Islam group, Sep 11, 2007
  6. "Sample E-mail Activism Letter". May 20, 2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Jewish Activist Battles For Israel on Facebook". Arutz 7. April 3, 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. ^ "Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force". The Telegraph. July 31, 2008. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. Andre Oboler (2008-04-01). "Online Antisemitism 2.0. "Social Antisemitism" on the "Social Web"". Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Retrieved 2008-08-14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Andre Oboler (February 5, 2008). "Facing up to the 'Facebook' dilemma". The Jerusalem Post. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  11. Tamar Snyder (February 20, 2008). "Anti-Semitism 2.0 Going Largely Unchallenged". The Jewish Week. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. "Israel - Facebook: 'Anti-Semitic' group hijacked by Jewish force"". CFCA Archives. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. "Help ADL fight the next generation of online extremism "". ADL. Retrieved 2008-08-18. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. Stephanie Rubenstein (July 30, 2008). "Jewish Internet Defense Force 'seizes control' of anti-Israel Facebook group". The Jerusalem Post. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

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