On Wednesday, I wrote about how corporate journalists, realizing that the public’s increasing contempt for what they do is causing people to turn away in droves, are desperately inventing new tactics to maintain their stranglehold over the dissemination of information and generate captive audiences. That is why journalists have bizarrely transformed from their traditional role as leading free expression defenders into the the most vocal
censorship advocates, using their platforms to demand that tech monopolies ban and silence others.
(Article republished from Greenwald.Substack.com)
That same motive of self-preservation is driving them to equate any criticisms of their work with “harassment,” “abuse” and “violence” so that it is not just culturally stigmatized but a banning offense, perhaps even literally criminal, to
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Journalists, academics and even a Google executive have joined in to attack the independent publishing platform Substack, as the battle over ‘harassment’ of a New York Times reporter quickly escalated into a censorship war.