Yours is the voice I've been awaiting on this subject. You are spot on and bring a historical perspective few others can. Possibly your most i8mportant post ever.
It is really difficult to follow but the more I read of the internal documents as released the more I think this is a water-shed point in free speech. Unfortunately, librarians who are generally pro-intellectual freedom seem to be ignoring. It is never easy to really be for free speech given our own biases, but this is the real test, isn't it?
Yes, it is. I've found many supporters of the current left-wing authoritarianism unable to comprehend what they are doing, and equally incapable of conceiving that they might at some time lose authority.
And progressive people keep sending out the same justifications for the Twitter censorship. Never a good thing to take that side going all the way back to Milton. I guess it wasn't much of an issue when most thbigs were in Latin and everyday people were illiterate.
Thanks, Lisa. I was thinking maybe I'd been too vague about the connection but yes--the fact that the Third Section headed them off at the past was what seemed the same to me.
Elon Musk should receive a Nobel Peace Prize -- he just might have saved us from US bipartisan fascist War party.
It will be interesting if censorship research at Twitter will extend into “unprovoked” Ukraine catastrophe or into 70 years of terror on Palestinians.
Not at all sure about Bari Weiss who supports apartheid, i.e., racism, publishes her interview with “Bibi” Netanjahu in her newsletter while promoting Twitter files, adores super-racist Nathan Sharansky ("Kill all Arabs") and permanently eliminates/censors her paying readers if they mention human rights of Palestinians.
Kathleen - you know how much I admire your work. On Bari Weiss we disagree, however. She is outright racist about terror on Palestinians.
Even the "Never Again" motto loses its meaning if/when aligning with Nazi-dominated government of Ukraine -- a puppet government of Biden fascist administration that considers domestic white nationalism as the highest threat to US.
We live in endless lies -- an "Empire of Lies" as Putin calls it...
This is an important story. I'm glad you are keeping us informed about it.
Yours is the voice I've been awaiting on this subject. You are spot on and bring a historical perspective few others can. Possibly your most i8mportant post ever.
It is really difficult to follow but the more I read of the internal documents as released the more I think this is a water-shed point in free speech. Unfortunately, librarians who are generally pro-intellectual freedom seem to be ignoring. It is never easy to really be for free speech given our own biases, but this is the real test, isn't it?
Yes, it is. I've found many supporters of the current left-wing authoritarianism unable to comprehend what they are doing, and equally incapable of conceiving that they might at some time lose authority.
And progressive people keep sending out the same justifications for the Twitter censorship. Never a good thing to take that side going all the way back to Milton. I guess it wasn't much of an issue when most thbigs were in Latin and everyday people were illiterate.
As opposed to today, when most things are in English, but the people are still illiterate.
Interesting parallel between what Yoel Roth and his team at Twitter were doing and the Third Section’s process.
Thanks, Lisa. I was thinking maybe I'd been too vague about the connection but yes--the fact that the Third Section headed them off at the past was what seemed the same to me.
Elon Musk should receive a Nobel Peace Prize -- he just might have saved us from US bipartisan fascist War party.
It will be interesting if censorship research at Twitter will extend into “unprovoked” Ukraine catastrophe or into 70 years of terror on Palestinians.
Not at all sure about Bari Weiss who supports apartheid, i.e., racism, publishes her interview with “Bibi” Netanjahu in her newsletter while promoting Twitter files, adores super-racist Nathan Sharansky ("Kill all Arabs") and permanently eliminates/censors her paying readers if they mention human rights of Palestinians.
Weiss has launched a new media platform. Her work on the Twitter Blacklist--can't believe Twitter used that term--was very through.
Kathleen - you know how much I admire your work. On Bari Weiss we disagree, however. She is outright racist about terror on Palestinians.
Even the "Never Again" motto loses its meaning if/when aligning with Nazi-dominated government of Ukraine -- a puppet government of Biden fascist administration that considers domestic white nationalism as the highest threat to US.
We live in endless lies -- an "Empire of Lies" as Putin calls it...
O I am not a supporter of all the work of all these people who have analyzed the Twitter Files, but I think they have initiated a solid review.
Yes, we are awash in being provided with information or lack of information we cannot trust.
Old but goody -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS-sxJFn6O0&t=4s
NYTimes' Bari Weiss Melts Down On Joe Rogan's Show! – three years ago (dumb as a doorknob)
I guess it's time for me to go back to Areopagitica :)
Just in - GG:
Dec 12 – Live Debut on Rumble https://rumble.com/v20aq4w-system-update-live-debut-on-rumble.html
Q & A -- https://greenwald.locals.com/upost/3199535/after-show-q-a
Is that a separate sub from his Substack?
GG's Substack subscribers are automatically included into this daily competition to YouTube
o good.
Great news.
It was Borges who said paradise was a library.