Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@EiverMecktun Agreed. Lisbon is an amazing city. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's always so weird when he talks about transportation since it happens so rarely and then you remember: "oh yeah, he's Secretary of Transportation." It's like when you have to find a place to stick a big donor who wants to be an Ambassador so you say: "eh, why not Portugal?" — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@fitzysfitz @consent_factory One of the most pathetic thing liberals like you do is see gay men and reduce us to our sexual orientation, and tell us our political preferences must be based solely or primarily on gay issues. I'm many things besides "gay man" and have many, many interests and issues beyond 🌈. — PolitiTweet.org

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@consent_factory I'm not exactly sure what all of your views are so I'm not claiming I espoused all of them. But if you watch those interviews I did in April, 2020 with Snowden and (then) Andray Domise, you'll see the key point was: the pandemic is being weaponized to destroy liberties. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@SenhorRomanelas Venho defendendo a liberdade de expressão - tanto como advogado quanto como jornalista - há décadas. Meu desprezo pelo estabelecimento sempre impulsionou meu trabalho. O campo bolsonarista confundiu minha reportagem sobre os graves problemas com Moro e a LJ com lealdade a Lula. — PolitiTweet.org

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Key questions directly affecting the public health -- are cloth masks effective? do the harms of lockdowns outweigh the benefits? should schools be closed? is it moral to mandate vaccines? do vaccines stop transmission? -- were suppressed, acceptance of official decrees required. — PolitiTweet.org

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A vital historical question - what was the genesis of COVID - was barred from being debated due to that conflict-laden @TheLancet letter: one of science's greatest disgraces. Big Tech allowed debate only once the Biden WH admitted the answer was unknown: https://t.co/qIM27gGSXl — PolitiTweet.org

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Why do people think they can so brazenly distort events in order to minimize them? This isn't what happened at all. For a full year, people - including scientists - were banned from the internet's key platforms for questioning establishment decrees on this novel COVID pandemic: — PolitiTweet.org

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@ninakrauser Todos os déspotas - tanto na história quanto hoje - justificam a censura de seus inimigos alegando que o discurso deles é "perigoso" demais para permitir. O que nunca entendi sobre a esquerda brasileira é por que vcs assumem que, um dia, esse sistema não será usado contra vcs. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

In 2018, I met with a writer who told me of a NYC event he did: He read stories from Auschwitz and the US border, then asked the audience to guess which was which. "They couldn't," he solemnly said. Nothing changed, but they lost interest on 1/20/21: https://t.co/aZRQ6twGLt — PolitiTweet.org

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2 pontos-chave sobre censura da internet (inclusive por monopólios dos EUA): 1) Não é esquerda x direita, mas pró-establishment x anti. Os silenciados são aqueles que se opõem ao establishment. 2) A censura é *sempre* para proteger os poderosos e silenciar os marginalizados. https://t.co/D206TzzASt — PolitiTweet.org

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@consent_factory I very obviously mean - and clearly stated - that these are questions that *should have been* devoid of politics. I then expressly stated what you claim I'm not allowed to recognize: that, instead, all of this was weaponized for political ends. And I spoke of this from the start. https://t.co/nOTiA2zqWN — PolitiTweet.org

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@NeilBoydSFU You didn't review the broadcast we produced nor the empirical evidence we assembled to demonstrate the point. You instead just assumed a posture of superior sophistication, decreeing who is and isn't serious, all while spouting Twitter clichés, having no idea what you denounced. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think about it, it's really amazing: Corporate journalists united from the start to pronounce the revelations of the Twitter Files worthless and trivial, and the journalists reporting them illegitimate, and trained millions to ignore everything they show. This is why: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @lwoodhouse: On my substack: Establishment journalists' response to the Twitter Files is that of a profession committed to protecting th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jstnorv10 @BrlanQ @joshtpm How do you not see how you sound like Joseph McCarthy? You think I'm going to jump through hoops you set up and denounce people on command to prove loyalty? Nothing is easier, cheaper or more worthless than Americans denouncing foreign leaders their government tells them to hate. https://t.co/WcvwmyJZm6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jstnorv10 @BrlanQ @joshtpm Yes, that's Bill Kristol's website and that's what neocons do. They accuse anyone who opposes their war policies of being traitors and supporters of the other side. They've been doing it for decades. I'd be ashamed if Bill Kristol's site weren't accusing me of treason. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrlanQ @Jstnorv10 @joshtpm No, he's angry that there are a few places on the internet which refuse to obey establishment orders about who should be censored. Rumble sticks its middle finger up at anyone who tells them to censor, thus allowing RT and US outlets alike to be heard. That angers authoritarians. — PolitiTweet.org

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@junertcb Of course. Many people were censored from Big Tech platforms over the last year due to dissenting from the NATO narrative on the war in Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It's false to say, as @joshtpm does, that I believe liberals are "more evil than authoritarians." That's because liberals *are* authoritarians. Every poll shows this - they want corporate and state censorship, love FBI and CIA, etc. All data is here: https://t.co/YihjSNPgJn — PolitiTweet.org

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@Partfortynineg1 You believe that the CIA and FBI are deeply concerned with right-wing extremism, and are censoring the internet to protect you and others for your own good from these dangers? That's sweet.🥰 — PolitiTweet.org

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Part of this is that the majority of media employees are too dumb and insulated to understand anyone who isn't plagued by their disease of only seeing the world through the "Dem v. GOP" prism (most Americans don't). But part is they now just use labels as punishment for dissent. — PolitiTweet.org

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To see how labels are now wielded as vapid enforcement insults: WPost has called me leftist journalist, heterodox reporter, right-wing pundit, conservative influencer. @thenation today used "libertarian pundit" after years of "left-wing journalist": often from the same writer. https://t.co/9dIerRWQZl — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Sueno_songs https://t.co/2Z3gW15uZq — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I hate label debates. As WPost just proved ("conservative journalist" Matt Taibbi), they're designed to manipulate. But I make this point because the key difference now - for Big Tech censorship and otherwise - is not "left v. right" so much as "pro v. anti-establishment":👇 https://t.co/3lPim3oIoh — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

It really his bizarre how every question about the COVID devoid of politics -- efficacy of cloth masks, wisdom of shutting schools, even whether the origins of the pandemic were known -- polarized along Dem/GOP lines. Listen to @ComicDaveSmith explain why that happened: https://t.co/QBs4ZmdZ88 — PolitiTweet.org

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Tim Robbins isn't a "liberal." He's a life-long leftist. It's a vital distinction, especially in the US context. Outside the US, leftists dissented from COVID orthodoxy. @jeremycorbyn opposed vaccine mandates and passports. Jean-Luc Mélenchon hated lockdowns. Listen to Robbins: — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidmweissman @elonmusk @mtaibbi That was the point of my article, which cites not just Supreme Court precedent but also one of the best ACLU lawyers explaining that: when government pressure on private actors to censor for them becomes sufficiently coercive, it violates the 1st Am. Should and will be tested. — PolitiTweet.org

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@elonmusk @mtaibbi When Dems controlled both houses of Congress and the WH (and Exec Branch), they repeatedly summoned Big Tech CEOs and openly and explicitly threatened them: if you don't *censor more*, you will be punished. And DHS/FBI/CIA applied immense pressure: https://t.co/KBMZpFiSzL — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@bamage02 @OnLocals @SystemUpdate_ You're guilty of small-dog erasure, a benign and common form of bigotry. https://t.co/UVvGst1nZt — PolitiTweet.org