Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@bestqueenliz Many. How many would you like to see? The very first reporting I ever did on Big Tech censorship was on how FB was censoring Palestinian activists and journalists at Israel's behest, reporting I've mentioned many times since. https://t.co/vE0XpFlk78 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Indeed. 🫢 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Yes, many are pointing out @RoKhanna used his voice as Silicon Valley's representative in Congress to warn Twitter that this censorship -- especially the pre-election censoring of the Biden reporting - raised serious 1Am concerns because of the role of Dems. Not surprised. https://t.co/pMNEnCTXWj — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@FPNLive @yoyoel @TheBabylonBee @karaswisher @TaylorLorenz If you're that interested - and clearly that's near the forefront of your mind - go be enterprising and try to find out. 🌈 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Ultimately, all you need to know is not a single national Democrat - not one - ever objected to Big Tech censorship (except to demand more). Not one raised concerns about the US Security State's role. That's because Dems perceive - correctly - that these are their allies. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

And here is @yoyoel insisting it was the right thing to do to ban the conservative satire site @TheBabylonBee, which even loyal Dem/NYT partisan @karaswisher opposed. Just listen to these neurotic cartoons! He's @TaylorLorenz. It answers all questions about how Big Tech functions https://t.co/9nN9kK618E — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Again: if you doubt that the top run of Twitter's censorship regime was dominated by the most caricatured type of left-liberals whose worldview requires ideological censorship, let me show you 2 clips of @yoyoel: first talking about how "terrifying" it is for him to be criticized https://t.co/FDg85y6aTw — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JenD1974 Is it really that much to ask to just read to the end of a (short) thread before commenting on it? https://t.co/L2TgjEIIB9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@awelasmotherium The "real left" -- meaning the left not slavishly attached to the Democratic Party -- is a trivial force in US politics. They have no representation at all - not one person -- in Congress or corporate media. The hegemonic force are left-liberals subservient to the Dem Party. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@Playerinthgame I made that exact point in this very thread. https://t.co/L2TgjEIIB9 — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@awelasmotherium So you're wishing I pointed out something like this? https://t.co/L2TgjEIIB9 I've constantly reported on Big Tech censorship of the left. The first story I ever reported was FB's systemic censorship of Palestinian activists and journalists at the behest of Israel. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@f_f8008f_f The fact that a story isn't on the same level as one of the most important sustained Pulitzer-and-Polk-winning investigative stories of this generation doesn't mean that it's not still a worthwhile story. There's more to journalism than "Snowden blockbuster" or "nothing burger." — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JoeShmo32152716 Yes, the left always thinks that "the right" is a like-minded monolith and doesn't see the significant factional disputes among them, but many on the right see "the left" (which, to them, means anyone from, say, Chuck Schumer to Jill Stein) with the same distorted lens. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

One point I'll note: the difference between Dems/liberals and the anti-establishment left. The anti-establishment left is viewed as the enemy, like the populist right, because they don't vote Dem. They're censored, too. Big Tech loves Amy Klobuchar, Chris Hayes, those types. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Everyone knows Big Tech censorship helps Dems and silences conservatives. That's why Dems love Big Tech censorship, and conservatives hate it. Not hard. It doesn't matter what docs you show media employees. They'll dismiss it as "nothing burgers" because they're hive-mind Dems. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Anyone denying that Twitter censored to protect Dems and suppress conservatives is a lying fraud. Just go listen to @yoyoel or Vijaya Gadde, etc. They're #Resistance cartoons, sound like they stepped out of a Yale gender ideology seminar. Of course they censored to help Dems. https://t.co/t4NbH7RWAZ — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Spend all year debating what "shadow banning" means if you want. Ultimately, it's an imprecise term The reality is clear: Twitter employees are almost 100% liberal, so they used their censorship power to silence conservatives, but never Dems. That's the story. Now we have proof. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Not comparing the stories but I watched Obama supporters do the same with the NSA story: 2009-13, me/others: NSA is mass spying on Americans. Dems: That's an insane conspiracy theory. Snowden docs: Here's the proof. Dems: Duh, everyone knew this. It's a nothing burger. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Conservatives: The reach of our tweets is being limited by a progressive Twitter workforce. Dems: That's an insane conspiracy theory. Bari Weiss: Here are the docs proving this. Dems: Everyone knew this already. It's an -- all together now -- nothing burger. https://t.co/VewGdK4CoP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@JeffFromNH @yoyoel Are there specific words you need help with? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Everything about @yoyoel -- the elite institutions and culture in which he's been ensconced his whole life, how he speaks, how he thinks, how he views people he regards as ordinary and inferior to him - is exactly what is spawning left-liberal repression: https://t.co/ErNcjwXPbr — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

People should really take the full works of @yoyoel and put it and him on a museum wall: he's the perfect embodiment -- a caricature -- of a snide, arrogant left-liberal elitist who believes the world is better when its subject to his petty-tyrant censorship and authoritarianism. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@noneur_d There are always authoritarians in the society happy to see the government force the society to submit to censorship and to be grateful when political leaders leaders limit the information people can get. That's why authoritarian persists: many citizens like you crave it. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

@jonjskin That's up to the platforms, not Democratic Party officials and other Executive Branch functionaries to dictate to them how they must censor. When government officials coerce private actors to censor, the 1st Am is violated. — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This is the most over-looked part of the debate over Big Tech censorship. For more than 2 years, Dems have been abusing their majoritarian power in DC to coerce social media companies to censor for them, with legal and regulatory punishment if they don't. https://t.co/KBMZpFjqpj — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Aside from these made-up numbers: do you see how -- to Democratic Party politicians -- dictating to social media companies what they can and can't platform, how they must censor, the role Democratic politicians play in all this, is just assumed as normal? — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

I have -- let's call it -- a strong feeling the next set of Twitter Files disclosures will be epic, even more incriminating of these powerful people than the last. That's why it's vital to see the twisted mentality of these corporate journalists:👇👇 https://t.co/ML6LvdLmPP — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This episode yet again shows the brazen caste system employees of media corporations are imposing. They are free to hurl vicious invective at anyone they want, to dox and destroy the lives of private citizens for wrong views. But nobody can criticize them: that's "harassment"! https://t.co/4YWFgQwMxj — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

This shows how completely rotted and fucked-up is the culture of liberal media corporations. They really do believe it's immoral to report on their powerful, rich friends in the US Security State or in corporate power. Reporting is only for ordinary citizens with bad politics: https://t.co/IDpNA9Ozdm — PolitiTweet.org

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

For days, liberal employees of media corporations have been whining that it's morally wrong -- even dangerous! -- for journalists to report on the behavior of people like Baker, or top Twitter lawyer Vijaya Gadde, who received $60 million from Twitter in the last 3 months alone. https://t.co/Dk5GEaF0pp — PolitiTweet.org