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Glenn Greenwald: "For US liberalism, censorship is a virtual religion now"
twitter ^ | Jan 29 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 01/29/2022 6:08:10 AM PST by RandFan

@ggreenwald

Remember that NBC lured @MegynKelly away from Fox with a $69 million contract but chose to fire her after 6 months and pay her rather than withstand liberal anger. At some point, Spotify will face the same choice with Joe Rogan: how much are they willing to lose to keep him?

Obviously, Spotify is not going to get rid of Rogan over Neil Young or Joni Mitchell. But for US liberalism, censorship is a virtual religion now, so they will start pressuring bigger names to do this. They try to make any platform toxic which allows dissent from liberal pieties.

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1 posted on 01/29/2022 6:08:10 AM PST by RandFan
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To: Jim Robinson; All

How does Jim keep FR online against the many enemies?

Actually, best not to ask but I sure appreciate it and this has reminded me to donate again!


2 posted on 01/29/2022 6:08:52 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Can you say Big Brother? Lololol


3 posted on 01/29/2022 6:14:45 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: RandFan

The LEFT is why we cant have nice things


4 posted on 01/29/2022 6:18:48 AM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: MrRelevant

Had any leftists truly read the constitution, they would have understood the first amendment. It says no laws prohibiting free speech. Funny how the lefties can spread lies and slander and they never get canceled or deplatformed.


5 posted on 01/29/2022 6:27:47 AM PST by No name given
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To: RandFan

“Remember that NBC lured @MegynKelly away from Fox with a $69 million contract but chose to fire her after 6 months and pay her rather than withstand liberal anger.”

I thought Fox fired her because her hysterical feud with President Trump was killing ratings.

Then, NBC was dumb enough to think her hysterical feud with President Trump would be good for their ratings - but the liberals couldn’t stand her either.


6 posted on 01/29/2022 6:28:34 AM PST by enumerated
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To: RandFan

Remember those liberal bumperstickers from the 70’s, “Question Authority!. Apparently there was some fine print at the bottom... “Until we’re the authority”.


7 posted on 01/29/2022 6:28:53 AM PST by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer.)
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To: No name given
It says no laws prohibiting free speech

Facebook, Apple, Google, and Spotify do not pass laws.

8 posted on 01/29/2022 6:30:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: RandFan

Friends and acquaintances on the left share one character trait: They are in general unable to justify and defend their beliefs. Confront them with facts... “These injections don’t seem to be working.” And they have nothing other than a talking head’s snark to draw from. You have information they don’t - and therefore it must be wrong. Because they know everything.

My guess is they watch the talking heads, absorb the hate towards whoever their enemies are for that day, and then attempt to duplicate the rage in their own minds. But there’s no script or teleprompter, so it’s better to just scream SHUT UP at us, however they can.


9 posted on 01/29/2022 6:35:54 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: RandFan
--- "...for US liberalism, censorship is a virtual religion now...." In this moment in time, it is crucial for the Left to try to censor. The pandemic narrative is falling apart from its own hysteria-loaded "official" data.

As of 29 January 2022, according to worldometers' "official" data,

( 5,669,541 global Covid deaths "officially" / 7,923,543,454 global population ) x 100 = 0.072 %

Less than one tenth of one percent "officially" Covid dead over two years worldwide, says worldometers' data. "Divided by two for a "per year" tally. The pandemic has been a media-enflamed hoax.

But additionally, the J6 and other "insurrection" hoaxes are slowly coming undone. The lockdowns are being seen as fascistic and WEF-encouraged. The "migration" is being seen as funded by the UN and certain political parties.

There is much to censor, that will not be censored. When a once quite liberal journalist like Greewald is smeared as "right wing" and "untrustworthy," this is a model for what is happening throughout the world.

Truth is eroding the Left elite's dream of conquest.

10 posted on 01/29/2022 6:37:18 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: RandFan

I don’t think it is a religion are all. People get carried away with metaphors.

What is going on is that the liberals consider themselves as victorious and are in the business of implementation of their objectives.

For example, there is the transgender female swimmer who has not bothered to cut off his male genitalia, and the girls in the dressing room say it is obvious he likes girls. And what is particularly more vile than he is the immediate supervisors who let him get away with it, and reward him for his “victories.” Not much outcry from society in general. The liberals have indeed won. Liberals, smirking, use absolute insanity and buffoonery such as this as entertainment to gauge the extent of their victory. Men in this country are evidently “whupped” into complete irrelevancy.


11 posted on 01/29/2022 6:38:51 AM PST by odawg
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To: RandFan

IIRC, Greenwald was let go by the Intercept because he went off the liberal plantation.

I have to give him props, even though I am quite certain he and I do not agree on very much.

Recently, he’s been a truthteller.


12 posted on 01/29/2022 6:39:23 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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To: No name given
They are claiming that it is "capitalism" - they aren't making a law prohibiting free speech, of course, but they are nevertheless engaging in censorship. And of course, the spineless GOP is mostly mute on this, so there is nothing stopping the Leftists from doing this.
13 posted on 01/29/2022 6:45:01 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (It's becoming more difficult to tell the difference between a RINO and a Marxist.)
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To: Jim Noble

“problematic posts”

The exact words Jen Psaki used when referring to how the White House works with tech companies to remove unfavorable content. That is a violation of the First Amendment.


14 posted on 01/29/2022 6:48:56 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy
That is a violation of the First Amendment

No it is not.

It is tyranny, and the SPIRIT of the Constitution, as well as the actual WORDS of the Declaration could justify an intervention - but the First Amendment regulates Congress, not the President or his minions.

15 posted on 01/29/2022 6:53:20 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: odawg

There are many Ashley Wilkes out there any more. Beaten down and too paralyzed to fight.


16 posted on 01/29/2022 6:55:36 AM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: RandFan
Censorship is but one characteristic of that religion. And it's not "liberalism" it's every ruling class institution public or private (except for some Republican elected officials).

But the underlying religion itself is Death Worship.

17 posted on 01/29/2022 6:57:13 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: sauropod

The Intercept, which Greenwald co-founded went full woketard and simply could not let anything the varied from the offical DNC narrative be published in it’s pages. So, they forced/bought him out.


18 posted on 01/29/2022 7:04:08 AM PST by Ouderkirk (The democRATS are not looking to govern, they intend to RULE. CT)
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To: RandFan
Liberalism is dead. It is only Socialism and Communism now. Liberals likely Dad, are mostly in there 70’s.
19 posted on 01/29/2022 7:07:12 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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To: RandFan

Like my Dad.


20 posted on 01/29/2022 7:07:55 AM PST by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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