Thread by @ggreenwald

Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists

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This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.

They try to minimize and dismiss what they are doing as a "culture war" to mask how repressive it really is.

The journalist who stepped up to demand I and others be censored by Substack -- because our critiques of corporate journalists constitute "harassment" -- is a disgraced Buzzfeed writer fired for plagiarism.

But it was applauded by other journalists, professors & a Google exec.

This is the real political battle that has taken center stage:

Will a small cadre of corporate media outlets and their employees control the flow of information and the internet, or is free thought, a free press and meaningful dissent still possible?

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Permit me to add:

I always regarded the reporting I did with @Snowden about NSA not primarily about privacy rights but whether the innovation of a free and open internet could endure.

That is exactly the same question implicated by the attempt by corporate journalists to censor independent voices

Just to get a sense for how truly deranged is the moral panic driving journalist-led calls for online censorship -- now to include even other journalists -- read this amazingly deranged thread from a UCLA professor from last month. Really worth it:

https://twitter.com/ubiquity75/status/1366115953419804677