Thread by @Tim_Hayward_

Having been astonished lately to find a seemingly anti-censorship organisation - @IndexCensorship - publishing defamatory nonsense *advocating* censorship, it is an intellectual relief, if a serious ethical & political concern, to learn it's spook-fed.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/weeken…

It's part of a wider problem: 'The infiltration & manipulation of press freedom & human rights groups by the intelligence services is merely an extension of the cold war efforts to ensure that they remain largely ineffective & steer any campaign into safe, apolitical liberalism.'

Edward Said reflected on the wider problem of 'the insidious intellectual abuses of American power' in this book review from 1999:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/…

Already in 1999 Said was clear: "The task is to provide as much material as can be assembled from alternative sources (today’s mainstream media being nearly useless for that purpose) and to apply universal norms of justice to overweening power and unchecked market economics."