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"It can't happen here.""Hate-speech" is different.Note that this is a voluntary action taken by the private sector. So there is no violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits government censorship.ReutersFacebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content Rich McKayAlso at ReutersThis is kind of a big deal. Chinese state media is usually pretty moderate. This is an attack on POTUS and it represents ratcheting up.Chinese state media slams Trump for 'extortion' in trade...

The real reason behind the push for censorship of social media. I’m not a great fan of Marxist philosophy, but one thing it has got right is the need to be sceptical when faced by what academics like to call ‘normative’ claims, and to be aware that such claims often hide a bid for power. When faced by such a claim, one should always ask ‘Cui bono?’ – who benefits?... Not just Marxist philosophy. Anyone with a working crap detector knows this intuitively. It's just being...

"Voluntary" censorship at Facebook and Twitter.Craig Murray BlogBlocked By Facebook and the Vulnerability of New MediaCraig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of DundeeSee alsoThe DuranCENSORSHIP CAUGHT: Facebook tries to shut the door on The Duran Seraphim Hanisch

Bringing down the curtain of censorship in US media. Moon of AlabamaThe Media War On Truthful Reporting And Legitimate Opinions - A Documentary b Related Tony Blair redux? It worked the first time around. Consortium NewsAnother Dodgy British Dossier: the Skripal CaseGareth Porter

So a tiny independent radio station in Ireland managed to interview Robert Fisk on the ground in Douma, but none of the British mainstream broadcast media today has him on, despite the political fallout from our Syria bombing attacks being the main news story everywhere? Meantime MSM propagandists including Richard Hall (BBC), Dan Hodges (Mail) and Brian Whitaker (Guardian) and many more queue up to denounce Fisk on twitter from their cosy armchairs. It bears repeating that the information...

Zuckerberg’s auto-da-fé before the Congressional inquisition is designed to send a message to his tech industry colleagues, as well as provide official cover for the future enforcement of draconian rules against deviants from the official script. “Misuse of social media!” cry the new Inquisitors. But who decides what constitutes “misuse”? Isn’t that what the First Amendment is all about?…. The suppression of free speech in the US and the rest of the “capitalist democracies” (a glorious...

Corporate media initiates "self-censorship" since government censorship is illegal.  The result is the same and few believe that the move is self-initiated.Disobedient MediaFacebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’Elizabeth Vos

Not just the US. Jacques Sapir could be compared with Noam Chomsky in the US. In an open letter to Macos, Sapir claims that this act again him, seemingly anodyne, is extraordinary. It is representative of the intolerance towards anti-establishment opinion and of the repression that grows inexorably whether in France (the anti-terrorist law very worrying in this regard)(1) or in other countries, like Spain. Liberalism in the West is under threat as elites feel the heat. This is not a...

The censorship saga continues In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there’s no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn’t make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system. If they’re going to get us locked down and propagandized into their vapid brain boxes, this will be how they’ll do it. Not by government censorship, but...

Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. It's folly to think that the Internet is responsible for fake news as a new phenomenon as a social influence. It's been around for a long time in various forms. The Platonic dialogue, The...