Posted on 08/11/2021 10:25:48 AM PDT by RandFan
@ggreenwald
What has happened is what some tried to warn would happen but it's worse than most of us realized:
When people like Alex Jones and Milo started getting de-personed from the internet, most cheered. In 4 short years, we're now at the point where almost no dissent is allowed.
Just look at the number of liberals cheering and justifying YouTube's suspension of Rand Paul for his comments on masks -- ones echoed by Biden's own former COVID adviser -- and you'll see why this faction is completely authoritarian.
They crave corporate speech policing.
There was always an authoritarian strain in US liberalism. But it become the dominant strain -- the defining strain -- when they got convinced during the Trump years that they were on the front lines fighting a fascist takeover, and now believe their adversaries are criminals.
There's one key point overlooked in discussions of Big Tech censorship.
Even if you want to reject the view adopted by the House Antitrust Committee that these are monopolies, their censorship is *not* purely "private company" decisions. They're coerced by Dems to censor.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Thank heavens for FR where we’re still able to enjoy free speech with regards to politics and current affairs.
This has motivated me to send in another donation later..
Thanks Jim!
Glenn is one of the few intellectually honest journalists on the left (use ‘left’ loosely in this case because he’s not much into authoritarianism as you can read). I have read his stuff from his work at the Guardian UK and whenever I come across it since. Read his website regularly up until he the speech police essentially forced him to resign from his own company. Now he self publishes on substack.
I never thought they would remove speeches of a sitting US Senator even from the Senate floor.
That is crazy... but there you go.
Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are my two favorite liberal contrarians. I follow them both on Twitter and read their sub stack articles. They're not afraid to call out BS no matter which side it comes from, often earning the wrath from liberals who believe their work would be better spent if they only attacked conservatives.
A survivor of the holocaust put it as intolerance leads to censorship, which leads to ignorance of your opponents reasoning, which leads to more intolerance. It is a vicious circle.
Doing nothing
We watched the movie, “Snowden”, last week and I think it was Greenwald who helped get the story out about CIA, NSA, etc., spying on Americans.
I’ve seen him on Fox back when I watched Fox, and he seemed pretty honest.
Alex said that at the time. He was the canary in the coal mine, and they would eventually silence everyone.
He saw it coming and built his own platform long before anyone else.
He made some mistakes, but he was/is the tip of the spear.
Too bad more people didn’t listen to him before everything he was predicting came to pass.
Vox Day just disappeared from blogspot this morning (”violated TOS”).
One of the disturbing aspects of this is that dissent is not being allowed on matters which are still in doubt: the 2020 election, the effectiveness of masks in fighting Covid, the long-term safety and efficacy of the Covid vaccinations, the origin of Covid, the prevalence of “systemic racism” in contemporary American society, the truth-claims of the LGBTQ movement, and the advisability of teaching CRT in the schools.
Dan Bongino said on his podcast recently that youtube will probably cancel him, after he called them communists.
Yup, EVERYBODY is a ‘nutjob’ now if you disagree with evil, which was AJ’s crime.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DquhivzeRQFR/
Yep. I knew it at the time too..
They’re now censoring speeches from the floor of the U.S Senate.
That is a new level in my book.
Rand points out that this is constitutionally protected speech and a U.S. Senator should be able to be heard from the floor in the public interest.
I have an ex-friend who I picture drooling every Sunday morning while Chuck Todd ladles out complete fabrications that he and his wife lap up like brain-dead puppies.
Rans Paul banned yet...
WATCH: Joe Biden’s top covid advisor on CNN admitting the masks people are wearing don’t work against covid
https://rumble.com/vkp9x9-joe-bidens-top-covid-advisor-on-cnn-admitting-the-masks-people-are-wearing-.html
” CIA, NSA, etc., spying on Americans.”
They don’t work for us.
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