Thread by @ggreenwald

The 3 journalistic units most devoted to demanding online censorship are CNN's media reporters, NBC's "disinformation team," and NYT's tech reporters.

Here's the latter laying the groundwork for making encrypted apps Signal & Telegram the next targets:

nytimes.com/2021/01/13/tec…

When the internet and encryption proliferated in the 1990s, the Clinton Admin seized on the Oklahoma City bombing to demand back-door access to all encryption. Bush & Obama used 9/11 to radically expand internet surveillance.

Now it's CNN/NBC/NYT journalists who take the lead.

Three events in the last 3 months have been major attacks on a free internet: FB & Twitter uniting to censor NY Post pre-election reporting on the Bidens (a shocking breach); the removal of POTUS from the internet; the monopolistic destruction of Parler. A huge escalation.

The newest episode of BEN AND GLENN'S AFTER HOURS, my podcast with @ben_awareness, is now up. It covers all this: the Capitol riot, the orgy of censorship in response, demands for a new War on Terror and new "domestic terror" laws (for subscribers only):

benandglennafterhours.substack.com/p/war-on-terro…

Here's an excerpt from our latest AFTER HOURS episode, where my podcast partner, former Sanders campaign organizer @ben_awareness, warns of the dangers of the liberal attempt to expand the term "terrorism" and introduce new anti-Terror laws domestically:

benandglennafterhours.substack.com/p/war-on-terro…

Every venue for communication and information dissemination that is independent - meaning outside ruling class & corporate media control - will be targeted for censorship.

Early today, NYT targeted Telegram and Signal. Now this: AP warns about podcasts.

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1350243701595926528

"Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories...and expanded their efforts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But Apple and Google have left open a major loophole for this material: Podcasts."

apnews.com/article/donald…