Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

RT @redsteeze: Ha ha ha — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

They united to censor accurate reporting and authentic documents about Joe Biden right before the 2020 election, and in its place put the CIA lie that it was "Russian disinformation." Of course censorship is crucial to the liberal-left: it's one of their most effective weapons. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LuizPersechini It's a stupid fucking question, because it's based on false premises. Billionaires already control social media and they censor to serve the interests of western government. I'm against thus, and thus in favor of changing that. A billionaire who won't do that would be better. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ConceptualBIG I addressed this multiple times, in numerous tweets today as well as the 90 minute discussion I did on this topic today on Callin, which you're free to review and listen to, even though that won't attract as many likes for you. I use those venues to avoid simple-minded questions. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LuizPersechini Who do you think runs social media now? Labor collectives and homeless associations? — PolitiTweet.org

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I love that Elon Musk's potential influence in Twitter caused so much hysteria in the West while this Saudi billionaire's massive role never created any concern. That's because one says he believes in free speech and one clearly does not, and it's free speech that spurs panic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Starting now! Come and there will be a substantial q-and-a and discussion with the audience: — PolitiTweet.org

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The biggest misconception about online censorship is it comes from Big Tech: "just private companies making choices for themselves." Total bullshit: Democrats have explicitly and repeatedly threatened Big Tech with punishments if they don't censor more: https://t.co/aPJwt8a5Ff — PolitiTweet.org

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The best essay I've read on this dynamic -- and I don't care what you think of him -- was by Curtis Yarvin. It's entitled "Big Tech Has No Power at All." It perfectly describes how the US Govt and Western states have commandeered their censorship power: https://t.co/cMiJsOp7I0 — PolitiTweet.org

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People have forgotten how much censorship was imposed in the name of COVID. No questioning of Facui/WHO was allowed on mask efficacy, on lockdowns, especially on the lab leak theory. It's years of conditioning people to accept state/corporate restrictions on speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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Yesterday, in reporting on the unprecedented censorship regime imposed in the West to ensure one-sided information flows about Ukraine, I noted how Big Tech censorship aligns always with US/NATO foreign policy. More from @samfbiddle on this: https://t.co/5yMwRQm6xb — PolitiTweet.org

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The censorship power of Big Tech monopolies isn't wielded as much by executives as it is by Western governments. FB, Google/YT and Twitter are crucial instruments to control the flow of information available to their populations. If Musk is serious, it will provoke a battle: — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe you're happy about it and maybe you're not, but there is simply no more reasonable debate or dispute possible about the fact that the US is engaged in a full-on, classic proxy war against Russia, using Ukraine as the staging ground. And it's likely to drag on a long time. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DavidSacks: https://t.co/YLD9ZMEh0j — PolitiTweet.org

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WARNING: Reading this thread carries a very high risk of schadenfreude overload: https://t.co/zNr3EM1R5a — PolitiTweet.org

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This is an actual sentence published last week by the Washington Post, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos: https://t.co/gSpFLwGymw https://t.co/JgKsoT8i1a — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AGHamilton29: “For democracy to survive, we need to better control of what people can say” Do these people even hear themselves? — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the most central, warped and dangerous fact about the Western fixation on internet censorship: It's led by "journalists" -- more accurately, by employees of large media corporations -- who use their platform to shame Big Tech execs who won't censor as they demand. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is how so much of Big Tech censorship happens. Hall monitor journalists search social media for posts they regard as inappropriate or express views they want silenced. They notify Big Tech, threatening to write about it, and the offenders get banned: https://t.co/B5m4lkXijv — PolitiTweet.org

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This is also not hyperbole but a literal description of the prevailing view of Western liberals, a faction that has become utterly authoritarian: https://t.co/7MFHGhJrV0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@nspblah https://t.co/G5L7Q29R0Q — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EvanPlatinum: tfw intelligentsia too dumb to use the block button https://t.co/QXouNXkucV — PolitiTweet.org

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That's why US liberals have not been this distraught, panicked or unhinged since Election Night, 2016. There is literally nothing more threatening to them than the possible loss of their power to silence, censor and deplatform their adversaries from the most influential platforms — PolitiTweet.org

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This is, without hyperbole, the overarching belief of Western liberal elites and many if not most of their followers. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @The_Kyle_Mann: It has now been 3 weeks since we at @TheBabylonBee were suspended from Twitter. We're still not backing down. Here are s… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @pmarca: Elon must not be allowed to impose his refusal to censor us on us. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BenSpielberg @gosuprime21 Some leftists cared only because of the perception (the accurate perception) that the WPost was hostile to Bernie, so decided to pretend it was because of Bezos (when, in reality, the ideology of the WP has always been corporatist and militarist and opposed to Bernie's views). — PolitiTweet.org

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The short history of censorship on Silicon Valley social media platforms: https://t.co/isTCXLLxLk — PolitiTweet.org

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I do regard this an an interesting question -- just as I regard it as interesting that so many seem grateful that Laurene Powell Jobs bought @TheAtlantic and now it's become more of a neocon hive than @weeklystandard was in 2002 -- complete with @JeffreyGoldberg at the helm. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MourvinMad Correct. That's why every day brings leftist celebration and gratitude when Google and Facebook censor and ban adversaries of the left. Not all leftists have this authoritarian censoring impulse but many do, which is why there's so little left objections to corporate censorship. — PolitiTweet.org