Check off the keywords one by one because he hits them all. Hunter Biden, Russian disinformation, hallmark of tyranny, Russiagate, the list goes on. You can't just play bingo, you play blackout instead.
Check off the keywords one by one because he hits them all. Hunter Biden, Russian disinformation, hallmark of tyranny, Russiagate, the list goes on. You can't just play bingo, you play blackout instead.
Reading his thread, he's not entirely wrong. Many MSM journos are informal agents of the liberal regime and democratic party apparatus. In a sense, they can't afford not to be. The Murdoch press and a number of reactionary outlets like breitbart and Infowars have reduced the state of discourse to mere propaganda, and when you can't raise the bar you need to sink to meet it. So they'll play up the threat of rightoid online forums and use a kind of condescending righteousness in the name of censorship.
Kiwifarms deserved to be scrubbed from the internet, but any mechanism that can accomplish this deserves scrutiny and accountability. I hate to get all slippery slope and all, but the same liberal media that will advocate for Kiwifarms censorship will advocate for the censorship of any non-MSM avenue. I am writing this on a forum that exists because a subreddit got obliterated for leftist speech! Would any of the talking heads care that the Internet be purged of this site and any other that gave a feeling of assembly to those it would consider dangerous for being left wing, "tankie", or controversial? Glenn might be lost in the sauce, but I do think he's got a point here: there is a prerogative within corporate media to blinker the bandwidth of discourse and to to accomplish it they are willing to destroy and sanitize the internet, and furthermore this censorship will be done under the cover of sanctimonious pretenses.
Kiwifarms was a huge threat and it’s good they’ve been deplatformed.
Greenwald frequently only raises concerns like this when it affects a right-winger.
sure, but that doesn’t relate to what happened here. kiwifarms wasn’t some kind of alternative media or political discourse, it was an online platform for fascists to organize acts of stochastic terrorism.
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I'll say it again, Kiwifarms deserved to be scrubbed from the internet. I don't regard it as a free speech issue at all to shutter a forum used as a venue for SWATing people or targeting them with violent harassment. That being said, who determines what gets to be online is not currently a democratic or non-ideological process, and so we should examine how and what gets erased, what gets to be on the internet.
Is Glenn being a crank about this? Absolutely.