O principal atributo de quem deseja censurar é a *arrogância*. Toda a história intelectual dos humanos é *erro*: o que uma geração acredita ser uma verdade provada é visto pela próxima geração como um erro grotesco.

Acreditar que tem a verdade absoluta é patológico.
Aqueles que querem censurar - ou, pior, dar às autoridades o poder de censurar - acreditam que estão imunes a este ciclo histórico: que descobriram a verdade tão absoluta que ninguém deveria poder questioná-la, nenhuma dissidência ouvida. Não consigo me imaginar acreditando nisso
Em 2013, no Guardian, escrevi um artigo sobre as 2 características que *todas as pessoas* que desejam censurar têm em comum são: 1) arrogância (acreditar que descobriu a verdade absoluta e 2) sede de poder (proibindo outros de questionar suas crenças).

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
(About the above thread: it's fascinating that the most popular podcast in Brazil is hosted by someone, @monark, very similar to @JoeRogan. He is constantly called stupid and ignorant by corporate media and parts of the left. He is the opposite of stupid: he thinks independently)
Monark co-hosts the podcast, @flowpdc. The format is similar to Rogan's: 2-3 hours of organic conversation. I was the guest last Monday and had never listened: kept hearing how *stupid* they were. It was one of the best interviews I've done in Portuguese:

People who drown in conventional wisdom, or who create a bubble where they never hear dissent from their views, always convince themselves that anyone who sees the world differently is stupid and/or ignorant. They particularly hate those uncontrolled by stable ideological prisms.
Anyway, @monark created a controversy last week because he warned of the dangers of giving power to Google and Facebook to censor the internet. He, and then me for disagreeing, were widely attacked by parts of the left and media. Amazing how identical it is to the Rogan dynamic.
I regard it as nothing short of tragic that free speech -- which began a core enlightenment value and was then built into a real ideology by the *US left* in the 20th Century -- is now demonized as a right-wing view, and begging Google to police our speech is left-wing orthodoxy.
Joe Rogan apoiou Bernie para presidente, mas este "jornalista" tem opiniões muito fortes sobre quem é Rogan, apesar de não saber absolutamente nada sobre ele. Vejo isso com frequência: opiniões fortes sobre a política dos EUA por pessoas que nada sabem:

Um dos defensores mais fervorosos da liberdade de expressão no século 20 foi Noam Chomsky. Até defendeu um professor francês acusado de negar o Holocausto. Foi quando a esquerda defendia a liberdade de expressão. Tenho orgulho de estar do lado de Chomsky.

Para os interessados, aqui está um vídeo mais longo de Noam Chomsky defendendo a teoria da liberdade de expressão que, no Brasil de hoje, de alguma forma faz com que as pessoas afirmem que você está no "direito." Bizarro. Vou postar legendas mais tarde.

Aqui está o vídeo com legendas de Noam Chomsky em 1980 defendendo a liberdade de expressão total, incluindo a oposição dele à demissão de um professor francês sob acusações de negação do Holocausto.

Chomsky foi enfático. Agora será chamado de apologista do fascismo da direita?
Tem sido a experiência mais bizarra da minha carreira esta semana: ser chamada de "direitista" por alguns da esquerda brasileira por defender uma ideologia criada pela esquerda, defendida por líderes intelectuais judeus e negros da esquerda -- e Chomsky.

Como o mundo invertido.

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26 Oct
Google has deleted one of the best and largest left-wing media outlets in the UK. No warning or explanation was provided. Just zapped it out of existence.

Congratulations to online censorship advocates: this is the system of repression and arbitrary silencing you created!
Maybe the unseen Google overlords who made this decision will reverse it. Maybe they won't. 🤷‍♂️

@novaramedia and its employees will now just wait around helplessly as they see if hidden authorities allow them to be heard, like desperate, hapless defendants in a Kafka novel.
In many ways, liberals and even the left are reaping what they've sown: not just by cheering a regime of censorship in the belief it wouldn't be used against them, but also serving tech monopolies by demonizing any free speech alternatives - like Rumble - as right-wing sites.
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25 Oct
The only point -- and I mean the only point -- of this entire billionaire-funded anti-Facebook campaign is to transfer the power over internet speech from social media companies to Democratic Party politicians. They have said this explicitly many times!
In March, I reported on the five-hour hearing House Dems held, where they had summoned Twitter, Facebook and Google for the 4th time in a year. One after the next, they delivered one point: if you don't censor more content we dislike, we will punish you with laws and regulations.
Here is the article I wrote after watching the entire hearing.

greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-in-…

One Dem Congresswoman, @RepFletcher, actually argued the Biden Admin give tech companies a list of "domestic terror groups" they should ban. See the video embedded. It shocked even the CEOs:
Read 6 tweets
25 Oct
In Google We Trust. Os bilionários americanos nos amam e protegem. Decidirão o que devemos ou não ouvir, pq nos amam e querem o que é melhor para nós. Deixe-nos ter um momento da gratidão aos bilionários americanos do Vale do Silício por manter nosso discurso seguro e limpo.🙏❤️
Você está dizendo que se criar um sistema onde o poder de controlar a internet e determinar "verdade" e "falsidade" reside nas mãos dos Vale do Silício, eles podem um dia usá-lo contra a esquerda? Oh, uau. Eu não consigo acreditar que isso aconteceria!

Esses são os elementos mais doentios e sujas da esquerda: usam seu marido, casamento e filhos contra você no minuto em que expressa uma opinião que não gostam. A única coisa que os irritava de Augusto Nunes fazer a mesma coisa era a ideologia: usam as mesmas táticas pq são iguais
Read 4 tweets
25 Oct
Pierre Omidyar's Financing of the Facebook "Whistleblower" Campaign Reveals a Great Deal

greenwald.substack.com/p/pierre-omidy…
The internet is the last remaining instrument for dissent to thrive outside state and oligarchical control. This campaign aims to put an end to that.

The slick and well-financed rollout of this Facebook "whistleblower" star is designed to advance multiple censorship schemes.
One of Omidyar's central goals -- as his own multi-national foundation trumpets -- is to impose *criminal penalties* on platforms that allow disinformation, hate speech or "harmful" content.

This will be defined by the same handful of multi-billionaires funding this campaign.
Read 7 tweets
24 Oct
It amazes me how many people don't get this:

The most anti-Chinese (and bigoted) theory of COVID's origin was never the lab leak.

The most anti-Chinese and bigoted theory was that COVID started because China's dietary conditions are primitive and unsanitary (stop eating bats!).
The other reason it was so irrational to claim the lab leak theory was designed to fuel anti-China animus was because US INVOLVEMENT in that research was always central to that theory: the research came from Fauci's agencies through EcoHealth Alliance. It was US & China together.
In any event, there's no way for the corporate media to ignore this story now. The NIH letter *admitting* EcoHealth's research, funded by Fauci, made bat coronaviruses more contagious *proves* Fauci's statements to Congress were false. Only question is if Fauci knew it was false.
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23 Oct
Facebook engaged in one of the most extraordinary pre-election censorship campaigns seen in modern US history: they sent out a life-long Dem operative, @andymstone, to announce they would algorithmically suppress the NY Post's reporting of authentic docs about the Bidens.
Even with Facebook - through a Democratic Party functionary - censoring a major story just two weeks before the election that raised serious questions about Biden, Dems & the corporate media (same thing) *still* think FB didn't censor enough to help Dems:

The most amazing part is this FB executive, in that tweet announcing the censorship of the Biden docs, said they'd block the story pending a third-party "fact-check."

FB never released that fact-check. Why? Because everything, including a new book, proves the docs were real.
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