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The usual suspects are at it again.
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It's a crusade against hate speech that can be named speech Jews hate to hear.
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The latest round of this sanctified struggle has EU bloggers in its crosshairs.
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Bloomberg News was one of the first to cheer on tech giants to form a posse of online intermediaries to throw gags into offenders' mouths.
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Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft all made a pact with the EU to apparently do just that.
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Reuters reported that Jewish lobbyists, frequently the target of hate speech, welcomed the agreement.
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Of course! Moshe Cantor of the European Jewish Press, who calls criticism of Israel the new anti-Semitism.
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There is a new type of anti-Semitism which is called anti-Israelism.
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Hailed the agreement as an historic pact that could not arrive at a better time.
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Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt of the Conference of European Rabbis, who says Muslims and Jews are natural allies.
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We see ourselves fighting together with our Muslim brothers.
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They are our natural allies.
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Applauded the agreement as the first step in combating a culture of fear.
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And Robert Singer of the World Jewish Congress, who tells the line of Jews being a light to the Gentiles.
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This is our moment to be a light unto each other and to all other nations.
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Said tens of thousands of YouTube videos voicing racist hate speech must be stopped.
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Oh, the horror. Hate speech is decimating cities, leaving entire nations in rubble.
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But it's just text or a video that one may or may not click.
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It's not like it chases you down, puts a gun to your head, and says, click it or tick it.
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Censorship is always a slippery slope.
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What starts as a way to protect a victim turns the classic victim into a perpetrator.
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Jews are always the perfect victim, now of hate speech, which must be censored.
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Voltaire once said, to learn who rules over you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize.
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So who's applauding internet censorship?
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