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@ggreenwald: 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 ...…

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.

  • MtF_DOOM [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    So they’ll play up the threat of rightoid online forums and use a kind of condescending righteousness in the name of censorship

    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.

    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

    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.

    • Ziege_Bock [any]
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      2 years ago

      Kiwifarms deserved to be scrubbed from the internet,

      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.