- cross-posted to:
- world@lemmy.world
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- world@lemmy.world
Under UAE cybercrime laws, the person who originally posts content can be charged, but so can anyone who reshapes, reposts or comments on it.
Under UAE cybercrime laws, the person who originally posts content can be charged, but so can anyone who reshapes, reposts or comments on it.
Why can’t they have videos of what happened?!!
I don’t know the specific situation there, but traditionally if you have a military conflict going on, battle damage assessment is part of a military’s job.
With long-range weapons — which is what Iran is using against UAE targets — it can be hard to know whether-or-not you’re actually hitting something. You need some sort of reconnaissance platform or a physical person to go out and take a look. So in general, a defending military would rather not permit an attacking military to know what has actually been hit. If the attack missed, then they don’t want the attacking military to know, so that they can fire another at the target, for example. And if there are accuracy issues or jamming or other things going on, they don’t want the attacking military to know about that. If the attacking military is defeating jamming efforts or has resolved accuracy issues or similar, they also don’t want the attacking military to know about that. They’re going to want their attacker to be as blind as they can keep them, to deny them a useful battle damage assessment.
In one extreme case of this, the UK, in World War II, had Nazi Germany fire V-2 rockets, early ballistic missiles, at them. Guidance systems at the time were primitive, limiting accuracy, and the British conducted an extensive disinformation effort, mis-reporting where rockets were hitting and seeking to prevent Germany from obtaining access to accurate information. This led to Germany consistently shooting V-2s at the wrong place, because they were trusting that bad information for their battle damage assessment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Direct_attack_and_disinformation
EDIT: Another WW2 example that comes to mind: for some time, Japanese warships had been trying to depth-charge American submarines, but using an incorrect depth. A congressman released information to the public about this fact. That information then made its way to Japan, at which point the Japanese military corrected their weapon use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._May
Anything critical of the regime is illegal and violates the terms of their visa. By showing missiles hit, they’re showing the regime failing to protect its territory.
Sounds like a pretty weak-ass regime tbh
It seems as if showing that the air defense systems are not working 100% is being seen as a threat to the government.