Posted on 03/22/2023 4:32:27 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
The billionaire founder of Craigslist, Craig Newmark, is using his fortune to further shape journalism into partisan activism to help Democrats win elections. He is the nation’s leading financier of the “mis”- and “disinformation” industries and is now the largest private stakeholder in America’s legacy journalism schools.
The most recent Twitter Files released by Matt Taibbi add a deeply disturbing new layer to the story. They show Newmark is at the very heart of an incestuous web of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporate media institutions operating in concert to censor political opponents on social media. Newmark is financing the largest coordinated assault on American free speech in living memory.
On March 9, journalist Matt Taibbi outlined how pre-Elon Musk Twitter acted as “a partner to government,” working in concert with the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Health and Human Services, Treasury, the National Security Agency, and local police. An elaborate system for reporting hundreds of thousands of accounts was set up, and Twitter obliged by deleting thousands of accounts on demand.
According to Taibbi, the grounds for reporting and deleting many accounts were “shaky.” He pointed to examples of several legitimate journalists and even leftist news outlet TruthOut appearing on internal “disinformation” lists.
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These outside partnerships played an aggressive role in pushing Twitter censorship. Taibbi calls this group the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.” A 2020 internal email from Nick Pickles, then public policy director at Twitter, set up a working group with nine disinformation non-governmental organizations (NGOs): First Draft, Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD), International Republican Institute (IRI), Atlantic Council/DFRLab, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), Brookings, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI).
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Craigslist was where voter fraud began in 2000 election.
Postings on their site said CA voters wanted to swap ballots with those living in Las Vegas.
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I wonder if there is a list of how many people have been murdered using his list.
That Orwell passage IS the answer, isn’t it.
Power.
Bump
They made their wealth. Now they don’t want competition.
Why are all these billionaires far Left Democrats. The far Left is communism or a hybrid like socialism. No matter what it’s disguise of the day, the Left is never benign.
Fascism is a combination of corporate and government power.
Craigslist was where voter fraud began in 2000 election.
Postings on their site said CA voters wanted to swap ballots with those living in Las Vegas.
I’m still permanently banned by CL because of my zeal for arguing with the far leftists and communists there.
No really, there are many who use the Politics section to call for all sorts of awful actions like exterminating the top 10%. They are still there and I’m banned because I was successfully making them look like the fools that they are.
IMHO
are you sure that was 2000? I thought it was 2008 ... but I could be wrong ...
how do you argue on craigslist? It’s basically a place for classified ads. I’ve bought and sold many items on there.
You have to have an account to leave comments on the politics section and others can reply.
It’s commonly known Craig Newmark is a far leftist and also that in the CL community that he has his moderators police conservatives very strictly. I’ve also been told, and believe it, the Craig even as a rich man spends some considerable time arguing with conservatives and personally banning those whom he really dislikes.
I suspect he is even farther left than Zukerberg and definitely has been around much longer.
Here is a very typical post that is rabidly anti-Maga and conservative. These are the type of posts I would argue with. It is active:
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/pol/d/el-segundo-introspect/7595282226.html
wow ... never knew that. You must have a lot of free time ...
Craig really has an non-stereotyped view of ordinary Americans, doesn’t he?
For a jerk with a simplistic text based flea market he sure seems to have a high opinion of himself. Odd for a guy who really got popular with the old personals that pioneered online prostitution.
I’ve read he essentially had the largest Brothel (online) and is/was the most prolific pimp in history. Which is saying something for the worlds oldest profession.
Yet he was never even issued a ticket.
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