Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Put another way - better, actually: https://t.co/I1UxyuQ1E4 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

They aligned with the CIA, the FBI, neocons and corporate media in the name of stopping Trump. So, yes, they are more than happy to align with Saudi monarchs, Wall St. hedge funds and various Good Billionaires to prevent Twitter from falling into the wrong hands. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yes, that's correct. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Again, this is the main tactic of liberal media "watchdog" groups. They usually won't show people videos of the interviews and TV appearances they want to malign. They select screen shots, frame it with their own deceitful claims, and people too dumb or too busy assume it's true: — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @jackshafer: G.K. Chesterton on the press. (This one goes out to @ggreenwald) https://t.co/xzWknb3pDg — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @redsteeze: The White House Press Secretary has signed an MSNBC hosting deal while still at her job and is out doing a media tour and ze… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@profkeithdevlin Strange. You seem to be hallucinating. https://t.co/G3eHq4BqbZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

There are many reasons to be skeptical of Musk's motives and, even if pure, his ability to restore free speech to Twitter. Way too many powerful interests need this censorship. But the panic reveals so much. My @getcallin show yesterday covered all this: https://t.co/Tqyryl7S3R — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

How dumb do you have to be to believe that journalists - who work at Bloomberg and the Bezos-owned WPost or Comcast or CNN - are worried about billionaires controlling media (🤣). They're only petrified that the *wrong* billionaire, one who may not censor for them, might reign. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Social media was heralded as an innovation that would liberate individuals from centralized control by the state and oligarchical power over their speech. It has become the exact opposite: the most powerful tool of information control and speech constraints ever devised. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Censorship of conservatives gets most attention because it's so common, but censorship of anti-establishment leftists is also frequent: any dissident can be banned. Pretending this is about bots or spam is fraudulent. This censorship is about control of political information. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

You're allowed to spread any lies, propaganda and disinformation you want if it advances the Ukrainian cause (i.e., the US/NATO cause), but will be instantly banned if you say anything that challenges that on the ground of "Russia disinformation." This is all explicit. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Throughout the COVID pandemic, you weren't allowed to question the efficacy of cloth masks. You weren't allowed to interrogate the origins of the virus. You weren't allowed to debate vaccines or lockdowns. No dissent from Fauci/WHO was allowed. The censorship is 100% political. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Let's put it this way: On Google/YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, you are free to say the 2000 and 2016 elections were stolen and fraudulent. You can't say that about 2020. Before the 2020 election, you weren't allowed to post reporting on the Biden emails. It's all ideological. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Everyone knows they are lying. Nobody cares about Twitter censoring bots or spam. That's not what this is about. The social media censorship people care about is 100% ideological: banning dissent on COVID, the Biden emails, culture war debates, etc. That's what's at stake. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In US culture, we're inculcated from childhood that censorship is bad. So of course nobody -- especially journalists -- wants to say: "I favor censorship." That's why they need euphemisms like "content moderation": to pretend it's about bots, abuse, etc. rather than ideology. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it. Even if Musk doesn't buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @AymanM: You’re about to witness how quickly western governments can pivot from promoting the right of a people to self-defense and resi… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @AymanM: Israel raids Jerusalem’s holiest mosque attacking worshippers during prayers on a Friday in the middle of Ramadan… so of course… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

If you want to speak about workers' rights, the evils of Amazon or any other cause you care about, you are permitted to appear on the outlets of large liberal media corporations nobody watches, but you may not bring that message to the most-watched cable news show on television. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Also, note the tactic of Media Matters-type scumbags: they won't show video of interviews. It's easy to do and they do it when it suits them. But usually, they just snip selected screen shots to create false impressions of what was said. Watch here: https://t.co/UDNA8gcloq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Please remember, @Shut_downAmazon, that if you wish to speak to anyone in the future about your work, you first politely ask permission from @ndrew_lawrence. They will probably allow you to speak to nice pro-DNC outlets about workers rights if you want, but nobody else. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Last night, Tucker Carlson interviewed the primary organizer of the successful unionization drive at Amazon, @Shut_downAmazon, congratulated him and said he was rooting for him. But unfortunately for Christian Smalls, Media Matters did not give him permission to appear there. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @TulsiGabbard: Max Boot perfectly illustrates the thinking of those in power: in order to save our democracy, we must destroy it; in ord… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @bungarsargon: "In addition to overcoming the immense challenge of unionizing while facing corporate backlash, there’s another reason wo… — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Right now, labor collectives and associations of homeless advocates control the internet, so it would be a terrible development if that changed of all a sudden and the internet was instead subject to the control of oligarchs for the first time ever due to Elon Musk. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @DefiantLs: https://t.co/JZU09e6oEU — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@billcanzoneri Why do you write like you're 8 years old? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@ChefyLefty The left was led by Bernie and AOC into total captivity to the Democratic Party and the idea that there was any substantial left-wing opposition to the brute online censorship of the Biden emails is total bullshit. Who are the left-wing free speech advocates? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

The leading group of censorship advocates in the US are employees of media corporations. Here's one lamenting that Twitter's "progress" in censoring more might be undone. I point this out often because it's so bizarre: journalists as censorship leaders. https://t.co/w28Mo1a14x — PolitiTweet.org