by Summary:
Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and lists as its team Western-born journalists and filmmakers, as well as endorsements from dozens of Western intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone. Can't challenge the narrative. Heaven forbid.Shit storm in the forecast. RT First they came for Alex Jones… Now Facebook bans
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: censorship, US corporate media, US social media
This could be interesting, too:
Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela. Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and lists as its team Western-born journalists and filmmakers, as well as endorsements from dozens of Western intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone. Can't challenge the narrative. Heaven forbid.Shit storm in the forecast. RT First they came for Alex Jones… Now Facebook bans
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important: censorship, US corporate media, US social media
This could be interesting, too:
Mike Norman writes Funny old world — Paul Robinson
Mike Norman writes Paul Robinson — The Inability To See
Mike Norman writes RT — New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster
Mike Norman writes On the Censorship of Michael Hoffman’s Books by Amazon — The Saker interviews Michale Hoffman
Days after the purge of Alex Jones from social media, Big Tech seems to have found another suitable target for apparent censorship. Facebook suspended the page of a prominent leftist news site writing about Venezuela.
Venezuelanalysis.com, a left-leaning news site that writes from a pro-Bolivarian revolution stance, has been around since 2003. Critics, including the US government, brand it as a propaganda outlet of the government in Caracas. The site says it is funded by donations and lists as its team Western-born journalists and filmmakers, as well as endorsements from dozens of Western intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone.Can't challenge the narrative. Heaven forbid.
Shit storm in the forecast.
RT
First they came for Alex Jones… Now Facebook bans Venezuela news site
How to delete everything Facebook knows about you
See also
Trending.
- Facebook lets you deactivate or delete your account, only the latter of which is permanent.
- This deletes all of your Facebook data from Facebook's servers, save for anonymous log files.
- Here's how to fully delete Facebook.
How to delete everything Facebook knows about you
Todd Haselton
Alex Jones and the Rise of Corporate Censorship
See also
This is censorship. There will of course be apologists for the corporate control of speech, on both the left and right, who will say, ‘It’s only censorship when the government does it!’. They are so wrong. When enormous companies that have arguably become the facilitators of public debate expel someone and his ideas because they find them morally repugnant, that is censorship. Powerful people have deprived an individual and his network of a key space in which they might propagate their beliefs. Aka censorship.Spiked
Alex Jones and the Rise of Corporate Censorship
Brendan O'Neill | Editor
See also
Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told. “America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”...
In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship. Because legalized bribery in the form of corporate lobbying and campaign donations has given wealthy Americans the ability to control the US government’s policy and behavior while ordinary Americans have no effective influence whatsoever, the US unquestionably has a corporatist system of government. Large, influential corporations are inseparable from the state, so their use of censorship is inseparable from state censorship.Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship
Caitlin Johnstone
See also
An all-out battle is raging against alternative views in the country that has positioned itself as the champion of the freedom of speech despite the fact that 90% of its media are controlled by just 6 companies. For comparison, in 1983, 90% of US media were controlled by 50 companies. Naturally, the trend negatively affects press freedom. According to the 2018 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders or RSF, the US dropped two positions compared to 2017, sliding to No. 45 overall. The role of competition has diminished while bias has become a norm. According to the 2017 Gallup/Knight Foundation Survey on Trust, Media and Democracy report, only 44 percent Americans say they can identify a news source that they believe reports the news objectively.
Strategic Culture Foundation
Alex Jones Purge: US Tech Giants Meddle into 2018 Midterm Elections
Peter Korzun
Amazingly, the American ruling elite think that they can control the narrative by controlling the corporate media. Even the Soviet Union could not do this. See samizdat.
This assumption is moronic when over half the country is onto you.
Related
While the following article is highly relevant concerning the blowback from sanctioning Russia, and he doesn't even mention the obvious distrust of hold USD and US denominated assets involves, or the hit to soft power, the take away that is most relevant to this thread is the final sentence about the Atlantic Council, which is supervising Facebook censorship.
"Congress should focus on updating and enforcing these sanctions while incorporating new ideas from the Atlantic Council and others […]," the expert wrote.Now "they" don't even bother about burying their tracks.
TASS
US expert warns new anti-Russian sanctions will damage American corporationsAlso
The Duran
Facebook teams up with NATO to censor news (Video)
Alex Christoforou
See also this by Alex
Twitter suspends Ron Paul Institute and Antiwar Directors’ accounts (Video)
This is going dump more fuel on the incipient civil war in America, which has been "soft" so far, excepting a few incidents.