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25 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
It is impossible to overstate how repressive Google has become in its censorship regime on YouTube. Almost no establishment orthodoxies can be challenged. @0rf was long a pro-Bernie videographer and this is what he's enduring. Thankfully, Rumble exists to allow free discourse:
The excitement over the internet in the 1990s was it would liberate us from centralized state and corporate control, allowing us to interact with one another freely. Instead, thanks largely to employees of media corporations demanding censorship, Big Tech platforms are tyrannical
Here's @0rf's video report on the Rittenhouse case that Google decreed outside the bounds of permissible discourse, and thus deleted it from YouTube. You can and, I hope, will, watch the banned video on Rumble, where you can also follow his great work:

rumble.com/vlownq-kyle-ri…
This -- hearing the facts and deciding for oneself -- is exactly what the union of corporate media, Big Tech and the Democratic Party opposes most. That's why the voices and the video reports that are designed to foster independent thought are the ones banned first:

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That this article -- which everyone knows is false -- not only remains on the Guardian site, but remains there without any retraction or even Editors' Note, tells you all you need to know about the Guardian under @KathViner. They are 100% willing to lie if the target is right:
Relatedly: that the most hated person in US corporate media circles is the one who has broken the most major stories -- Julian Assange -- tells you all you need to know about the US corporate media. It's bizarre, but what they hate most are journalists who break huge stories.
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The claim that Joe Rogan -- a supporter of Bernie Sanders, an anti-imperialist, a crusader against factory farms, etc. -- is of the "far right" is the kind of stupidity in which liberals specialize: "let's try to expel the most influential media figure and insist he's our enemy."
Watch this brilliant @krystalball segment on the unspeakable stupidity of this tactic. Rational political movements try to *expand* the range of those who identify with them. The liberal-left so often looks for ways to expel as many people as possible:

Rogan has an audience of millions. You can't change that. The only choices you have: 1) engage with that huge audience to build common ground or 2) create a climate where nobody on the liberal-left can go there, ceding it all to the right. Those who *want to lose* chose (2).
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22 Nov
Kyle Rittenhouse -- now free of all criminal liability -- did his first interview and said he believes systemic racism is a problem in the US and supports "BLM."

If you think this will cause anyone to reevaluate their decree that he's a "white supremacist," you'd be incorrect.
Rittenhouse has no reason to say any of this if he doesn't believe it. In fact, saying those things could undermine his self-interest, given that many on the right probably didn't want to hear them. There was never any evidence he was a "white supremacist" but that never matters.
There are very few accusations you can make about someone more serious than publicly branding them as "white supremacist" or "white nationalist." But in liberal discourse, especially media discourse, there is literally no evidentiary requirement that must be met in order to do it
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22 Nov
There's apparently a shortage of people who criticize Fox News -- contrary to my belief that billionaire-funded groups like Media Matters, CNN and MSNBC and digital liberal outlets do little else -- and Democrats have united with "leftists" in an urgent call for me to do it more.
For the union of Dems and AOC-leftists who have decided it's urgent that I use my platform to copy CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Media Matters, Daily Beast & basically every liberal digital outlet by spending my time discussing Fox, here's my 3-part answer to a critic who asked on @GetCallin.
Here's Part 2 (excuse the choppiness: I mistakenly spoke where the connection was weak). Basically, it’s about how I chose to use my journalistic platform. From the time I began writing, I focused on what was being under-covered, not echo what everyone was saying (Orange Trump!).
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22 Nov
Two of the most vocal and unhinged advocates of the first War on Terror - @JonahDispatch and @stephenfhayes - just quit Fox News (where nobody knew they worked) in protest over Tucker Carlson warning of the dangers of the new War on Terror and questioning FBI involvement in 1/6.
Goldberg was the classic chickenhawk: weak men who feel tough by sending other families' kids to war. Along with @JeffreyGoldberg, Hayes was the leading liar claiming Saddam had an alliance with Al Qaeda. Now they're viewed by liberals as the noble Men of Conscience quitting Fox.
Goldberg and Hayes are barely on Fox, yet the media is heralding this spectacle as some brave elevation of patriotism over party.

It does actually show a split on the right over militarism and worship of the security state. Like most neocons, Goldberg/Hayes are with CIA & Dems.
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On the same day as the Rittenhouse verdict, two other major criminal cases were decided. One was a conviction by a jury in Missouri of a white police detective who fatally shot a black man, Cameron Lamb, 26, after entering his property without cause:

nytimes.com/2021/11/20/us/…
The other was the acquittal on the major charges by a Central Florida jury of a black man, Andrew Coffee IV, who shot at SWAT police officers, resulting in them shooting his girlfriend to death. He claimed legitimate self-defense, and the jury agreed:

wptv.com/news/region-in…
No reasonable person can deny that there are still major inequities in the US criminal justice system based on class and race. But there's a reason Kyle Rittenhouse is a household name, while Eric J. DeValkenaere (the now-convicted police detective) and Andrew Coffee IV are not.
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