Supporters of Israel Seek to Ban Hamas from Social Mediaselfnews Post Much toIsraels dismay, overwhelming military force cannot win a social media war.The sympathy for Palestinians in Gaza far outnumbered the support for Israel on Twitter and elsewhere. Seeking a solution to thisdisproportionatecyber support, Israel sympathizers are lobbying to censor and ban their opposition from using social media weapons. They blockade Palestinians from having most physical goods, why not block them from Twitter as well? The Hill reports: In addition to these elected officials, a group called Christians United for Israel has encouraged their followers to engage in a letter-writing campaign to demand that Twitter censor Hamas. The fact that a terrorist organization like Hamas, with so much Israeli and American blood on its hands, can use a service like Twitter is outrageous, the group wrote in a campaigntitled Ban Hamas From Twitter. The complaint reads uses similar language as the letter by lawmakers to the FBI: This is not the first time lawmakers have lobbied private companies to censor opposition groups from the Internet.Google recentlyreportedthat in general take-down requests and requests for personal data from governments have risen dramatically, with the US making the most demands. Senator Joe Lieberman has repeatedly lobbied Google to ban anti-governmentandviolent rhetoricfrom their platforms, but only from stated enemies of the West. Of course, Lieberman still wants to be able to advertise bombing Iran through these platforms. As for the Gaza situation, apparently the Tweets that sparked outrage were those that glorified rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and promulgated pictures of dead children alleged to have been killed by Israeli strikes,Tweets like#Israels military kills #Palestinian children in cold blood in #Gaza. To date, there have been no calls for Israel to be banned for the IDFs incendiary tweets such as we recommend that no Hamas operatives, whether low level or senior leaders, show their faces aboveground in the days ahead. Read other articles by selfnews Post Here 