This is why we don’t like censorship culture.
Everyone who summons a demon to help their cause thinks they can put a leash on the demon and keep it in its lane.
This is why we don’t like censorship culture.
Everyone who summons a demon to help their cause thinks they can put a leash on the demon and keep it in its lane.
lawmakers have barred the U.S. State Department from citing death toll figures provided by the Gaza Ministry of Health
I wonder if the issue is the source? I don't know anything about the Gaza Ministry of Health to know how accurate their reporting might be.
yes, it's the source; but not in the way you might be thinking.
the assumption is that anything out of a gazan mouth must be propaganda, but they're the only ones on the ground counting and their numbers are in line with estimates from other groups and lower than some of them.
Lol, I don't think that's it.
On 10 November 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US intelligence community has growing confidence that death toll reports from the Gaza Health Ministry are roughly accurate. The article also reported that despite US officials had growing confidence, they did not have enough information to confirm for sure.
In January 2024, Israeli news magazine Mekomit reported that Israeli intelligence officials had concluded that Health Ministry casualty reports are generally reliable and are used in briefings to senior officials.
So yeah, that's probably not it. I just instinctively distrust orgs that have a clear motive to misreport figures (i.e. inflating numbers could get other countries to intervene on Gaza's behalf).