The regime of censorship being imposed on the internet – by a consortium of DC Dems, billionaire-funded "disinformation experts," the US Security State, and liberal employees of media corporations – is dangerously intensifying in ways I believe are not adequately understood.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
During the failed attempt in January to force Spotify to remove Joe Rogan, the country's most popular podcaster – remember that? – I wrote that the current religion of Western liberals in politics and media is censorship: their prime weapon of activism.
https://t.co/SAMtK31UY8— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
There's now an entire new industry, aligned with Dems, to pressure Big Tech to censor. Think tanks and self-proclaimed "disinformation experts" funded by Omidyar, Soros and the US/UK Security State use benign-sounding names to glorify ideological censorship as neutral expertise. pic.twitter.com/5JxSYugUIf
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
It is astonishing to watch Dems and their allies in media corporations posture as opponents of "fascism" – while their main goal is to *unite state and corporate power* to censor their critics and degrade the internet into an increasingly repressive weapon of information control.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
But the worst is watching people whose job title in corporate HR Departments is "journalist" take the lead in agitating for censorship. They exploit the platforms of corporate giants to pioneer increasingly dangerous means of banning dissenters. *These* are the authoritarians. pic.twitter.com/Ru6oGtIrFb
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
So many new tactics of censorship repression have emerged in the West: Trudeau freezing bank accounts of tucker-protesters; Paypal partnering with ADL to ban dissidents from the financial system; Big Tech platforms openly colluding in unison to de-person people from the internet. pic.twitter.com/O9U2s89ca1
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
This is why I regard the Hunter Biden scandal as uniquely alarming. The media didn't just "bury" the archive.
CIA concocted a lie about it (it's "Russian disinformation"); media outlets spread that lie; Big Tech censured it — because lying and repression to them is justified! pic.twitter.com/2ywVxAj7rR
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
How come **not one media outlet** that spread this CIA lie – the Hunter Biden archive was "Russian disinformation" – retracted or apologized? This is why: they believe they are so benevolent, their cause so just, that lying and censorship are benevolent.
pic.twitter.com/oE2BKYgy4B— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
But as these free speech platforms grow and become a threat, the efforts to crush them also grow – exactly as @AOC, other Dems and their corporate media allies successfully demanded Google, Apple and Amazon destroy Parler when it became the single most-popular app in the country. pic.twitter.com/HFRVSVDZOJ
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
It's not melodrama or hyperbole to say: what we have is a war in the West, a war over whether the internet will be free, over whether dissent will be allowed, over whether we will live in the closed propaganda system our elites claim The Bad Countries™ impose. It's no different.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
The measure of societal freedom is not how servants of power are treated: they're always left alone or rewarded. The key metric is how dissidents are treated. Now, they are imprisoned (Assange), exiled (Snowden) and, above all, silenced by corporate/state power (dissidents). pic.twitter.com/5AojVGV9OB
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
As I've often said, the media outlets screaming most loudly about "disinformation" are the ones that spread it most frequently, casually and destructively (NBC/CNN/WPost, etc).
It's equally true of those now claiming to fight "fascism": real repression comes *from them.* pic.twitter.com/jhXWJ8AN3e
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
Above all, stay focused on who your real enemies are.
They're not your neighbors who have been deceived into supporting the wrong party or wrong ideology. They are victims of the repression, which is all about maintaining a closed system of propaganda that can't be challenged. pic.twitter.com/B4DfgVSROB
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
Heap scorn on the corporate outlets and their deceitful, pro-censorship employees abusing the "journalist" label. Read them with full skepticism, or just ignore them.
Support outlets and platforms that want to protect free inquiry and the right of dissent, not rob you of it.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 6, 2022
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Censorship is one sure sign of a failed civilization. When debate over issues is curtailed due to censorship, all you have left is a feudal dictatorship where even your thoughts are owned by your owners.
there won’t be statistics available, but twatter goes full dick mode near elections – I just got a 7 day suspension for a mild wuflu joke
reminds me of 2020, or pretty much any day for conservatives – but still, it’s informative in enclaves
mesmerized by the abyss, and all that
ps any other beagle fans? he knows