Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SaeenDiddyCombs Tell me all the things you admire about Google and Facebook and Amazon and Apple that aren't true of Twitter under Musk. You believe those companies have meaningful transparency and accountability? LOL. They're infinitely larger, richer and more powerful than Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@andrewghelms LOL. Don't assume everyone else is plagued by your mid-wit denseness. Even if Katie's satire weren't incredibly obvious on its own -- and it was -- she's a friend of mine for a good while and I know her humor and worldview extremely well. Her point is my point. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If Musk's takeover Twitter restores even a mild amount of free speech (i.e., subverts the state/corporate online censorship regime in which the West is drowning), it will be monumental. But even if he doesn't, the media meltdown reveals vital insights: https://t.co/HhC0rw6cUO — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For the idiots thinking I didn't realize the tweet I quoted was satirical: I know Katie very well and it's obvious she's *mocking* yesterday's discourse. That's my point: the inanity of acting as though Musk's takeover of Twitter poses dangers FB/Google/etc. don't pose in spades. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@CaioAlmendra Sim. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If I had to choose a single tweet that captures the irrationality and incoherence of the panic over Elon's Twitter takeover, it'd be this one. Every argument deployed to depict this as some dangerous moment applies exponentially to these other, much larger platforms: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @ggreenwald: @I_gave_you_powr I have no idea if Musk will follow through on his free speech commitments. Lots of reasons to be skeptical… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JeffBezos What's rare about it is the journalist took a controversial set of ideas and people he clearly does not agree with, but instead of using the article to denounce and hurl insults, he tried to fairly understand and explain those ideas and people, and thus his article enlightened. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@I_gave_you_powr I have no idea if Musk will follow through on his free speech commitments. Lots of reasons to be skeptical, obviously. But he's the only one vowing this, so it's worth hoping. If he doesn't, then nothing will have changed. The status quo is billionaires censoring the internet. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is the core dishonestly of today's discourse: Yes, having billionaires control news and the flow of information is a bad model. Very bad. But that's the model we have *now*. Today's relevant question: do you prefer ones who censor, or ones who allow free speech to thrive? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Reuters, 2017: "Amazon partnered with China propaganda arm" Specifically: Amazon removed negative reviews about a book by President Xi Jinping, then disabled comments, as "part of a deeper, decade-long effort by the company to win favor in Beijing." https://t.co/NReUEX3LAy — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

😢 - He's leaving to spend more time with his pharmaceutical and other industry clients on whose behalf he effectively lobbies. It's hard to profiteer off your political influence and powerful-friendships in DC when free speech prevails. https://t.co/fPKpfeLqMJ https://t.co/k6qKyV3loG — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Does this include when Facebook and Twitter — 2 weeks before the 2020 election — outright *censored* reporting on Biden’s activities in China and Ukraine based on the CIA lie that it was “Russian disinformation”? Was Biden concerned about *that* conduct by large tech platforms? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini Prefiro um mundo onde bilionários norte-americanos não controlam e censuram os debates políticos do todos os países. Sou contra imperialismo. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini Google, Facebook e Apple estão *muito* maior, mais ricos e mais poderosos do que Twitter — não tem comparação: mais poderosos do que a maioria dos governos se não todos. E funcionam sem limites. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If one were an alien visiting earth for the first time today, one would think that Big Tech monopolies and media corporations had always been benevolently run by labor collectives and communes - until Elon Musk came along and put it under billionaire control for the first time. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

“Elon Musk is an ACLU card-carrying member and one of our most significant supporters” — Anthony Romero, executive director at the @ACLU. Still warns sole control of Twitter by the “free speech absolutist” is dangerous. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini Você tem uma visão muito doce e idealista de como Google, Apple e Facebook – 3 das corporações mais ricas e poderosas de toda a história humana – funcionam. A realidade é que eles controlam os debates políticos em muitos países, inclusive no Brasil, sem *sem* limites. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Viniaquinof Você está defendendo alguém que trabalha para a NBC News, uma das corporações de mídia mais ricas e poderosas do mundo, e afirmando que ele é um lutador contra a desinformação e o extremismo. Você disse isso explicitamente. Acho isso hilário. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini Nada garante isso. Ele pode muito bem não cumprir sua promessa. Mas se ele não cumprir, nada terá mudado: ainda teremos bilionários norte-americanos policiando e censurando debates em todos os países, inclusive no Brasil: como agora. É por isso que espero que cumpra a promessa. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KFILE How many more do you wnat? Like I said, I could literally provide examples all day. https://t.co/UOrioDsWmm — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Billionaires control the internet now -- and have long before Musk and Twitter. They control social media. And they control most large media corporations that have "news" divisions. Are there really people who are unaware of this? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Raphael_Picerni Você sabe o que significa "vamos ver"? Se ele não cumprir a promessa dele e usar seu poder para censurar e controlar os debates políticos, nada terá mudado, pois é isso que acontece agora. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@LuizPersechini Assim são as pessoas que controlam essas plataformas agora: bilionários norte-americanos. A diferença é que eles usam sua propriedade para controlar, policiar e censurar os debates políticos do Brasil (e de todos os outros países). Musk diz que não quer fazer isso e não fará. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Neste momento, os debates políticos do Brasil pela internet são controlados, ditados e censurados por bilionários norte-americanos. Isso é imperialismo extremo. Musk promete abrir mão desse controle. De novo: veremos. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Os bilionários americanos controlam as redes sociais - inclusive o Twitter - *agora*. O perigo é quando esses bilionários usam seu poder de controlar e censurar os debates políticos não só nos EUA, mas em todos os países, incluindo o Brasil. Musk diz que não quer fazer. Veremos. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@KFILE https://t.co/zrFwjgeFbB — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@DionRabouin In the extreme. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@BuckerCarlson I'm the worst. My kids already mocked me for that for a good 10 minutes. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Also, I love raccoons https://t.co/rJOXmH9kdY — PolitiTweet.org