by This is a serious mistake.The Federalist de-platformed , too. (Update: Google says not. That may have been fake news.)While I don't agree with a lot of what appears on ZH and with almost nothing that appears in the Federalist, de-platforming is not the way to go. It's corporate censorship in place of government censorship. While government censorship is prohibited by the constitution (First Amendment rights), corporate censorship is not — yet, anyway.There is the benefit here though of waking a lot of people up to the fact that it is not only the government that is potential a problem with respect to rights and liberties. So are corporate behemoths.Zero HedgeGoogle Demonetizes Zero Hedge Tyler Durden
Topics:
Mike Norman considers the following as important:
This could be interesting, too:
New Economics Foundation writes Is the Labour government delivering on its promises?
John Quiggin writes Dispensing with the US-centric financial system
New Economics Foundation writes Whose growth is it anyway?
Matias Vernengo writes What is heterodox economics?
This is a serious mistake.
The Federalist de-platformed , too. (Update: Google says not. That may have been fake news.)
While I don't agree with a lot of what appears on ZH and with almost nothing that appears in the Federalist, de-platforming is not the way to go. It's corporate censorship in place of government censorship. While government censorship is prohibited by the constitution (First Amendment rights), corporate censorship is not — yet, anyway.
There is the benefit here though of waking a lot of people up to the fact that it is not only the government that is potential a problem with respect to rights and liberties. So are corporate behemoths.
Zero Hedge
Google Demonetizes Zero Hedge