Biden Administration Completely Kills The "It's A Private Company So It's Not Censorship" Argument
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com
Listen to a reading of this article: In what's surely the biggest "Imagine the outrage if Trump had done that" moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading "disinformation" about the Covid-19 response.
When I confronted my NYTs-reading, Trump-hating, Colbert-watching Blue-check family member about the democratic party's censorship fetish, even he had the decency to be uncomfortable with it, unless he was just doing it for my sake.
When a former mouthpiece for an Israeli firm is chosen to be the font of information for the American government, expect nothing but bad things and BS to spring forth. It could not be otherwise.
I have never in my lifetime seen my government so brazenly divorced from the needs of the governed.
Capitalists can't stand a healthy functional government that invests in public services.
"That is why oligarchs will always systematically enslave it - to remove your only real guardian. Once a govt is crippled, all of your protections are laid bare, ready to be destroyed." ~ JG
Funny how no mention of CrowdTangle...The data company owned by Facebook which provided the data to the admin...there is no spying but that wouldn't get the clicks and outrage...SAD
When I confronted my NYTs-reading, Trump-hating, Colbert-watching Blue-check family member about the democratic party's censorship fetish, even he had the decency to be uncomfortable with it, unless he was just doing it for my sake.
When a former mouthpiece for an Israeli firm is chosen to be the font of information for the American government, expect nothing but bad things and BS to spring forth. It could not be otherwise.
I have never in my lifetime seen my government so brazenly divorced from the needs of the governed.
Capitalists can't stand a healthy functional government that invests in public services.
"That is why oligarchs will always systematically enslave it - to remove your only real guardian. Once a govt is crippled, all of your protections are laid bare, ready to be destroyed." ~ JG
Brilliant.
Can you defend your word salad about Ayn Rand with receipts?
Funny how no mention of CrowdTangle...The data company owned by Facebook which provided the data to the admin...there is no spying but that wouldn't get the clicks and outrage...SAD