Thread by @ggreenwald

This is amazing, but not really. There is no more authoritarian species in the wild than US liberals. In every controversy, they side with institutions of authority: they love the large corporate press, the FBI, CIA, workplace managers, editors - they worship & revere authority:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1328541267073114112

Nobody — absolutely nobody — has done more to spread disinformation and deceive the public than large corporate media outlets. That’s their function. This never used to be controversial on the left.

Now they have liberal convinced they’re the warriors against disinformation.

They beg Facebook and Google and other tech giants to regulate our discourse. They think NBC News & CNN are devoted to combatting disinformation and keeping us safe from propaganda. They beg for “gatekeepers” and discourse regulators. They are institutionalists & authoritarians.

Just watch this clip of a Vox writer — on an MSNBC platform of all places — beg for “gatekeepers” and warn that citizens cannot be trusted to exchange information and ideas without corporate media overlords. This is the face of US liberalism right here:

washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…

What hope do we as a society have without corporate media “gatekeepers” controlling our discourse and ensuring that we are shielded from propaganda and disinformation? We should give thanks every day to NBC News, the NYT & CNN for decreeing what is true and what is not.

Here’s the clip I referenced above - the face of American liberalism. Watch:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1328541267073114112

What is actually “the single biggest threat to our democracy” is not, as Obama claims, the internet — that’s one of the key safeguards — but rather the attempt to *control* the internet by institutions of authority, including parties, the national security state and their allies:

https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1328435192084787206