Reports Hedges this week in ScheerPost:
"The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America and RT International, has been disappeared from YouTube. Gone is the interview with Nathaniel Philbrick on his book about George Washington. Gone is the discussion with Kai Bird on his biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Gone is my exploration with Professor Sam Slote from Trinity College Dublin of James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Gone is the show with Benjamin Moser on his biography of Susan Sontag. Gone is the show with Stephen Kinzer on his book on John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. Gone are the interviews with the social critics Cornel West, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Horne, Wendy Brown, Paul Street, Gabriel Rockwell, Naomi Wolff and Slavoj Zizek. Gone are the interviews with the novelists Russell Banks and Salar Abdoh. Gone is the interview with Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, on the case of Leonard Peltier. Gone are the interviews with economists David Harvey and Richard Wolff. Gone are the interviews with the combat veterans and West Point graduates Danny Sjursen and Eric Edstrom about our wars in the Middle East. Gone are the discussions with the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Gone are the voices of those who are being persecuted and marginalized, including the human rights attorney Steven Donziger and the political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. None of the shows I did on mass incarceration, where I interviewed those released from our prisons, are any longer on YouTube. Gone are the shows with the cartoonists Joe Sacco and Dwayne Booth. Melted into thin air, leaving not a rack behind."
The increasing censorship by Big Tech shows the extent to which Democratic Party-supporting Big Tech has become an adjunct the authoritarian Democrat Party.
Writes Glenn
Greenwald: "I really believe history will record that the people who
destroyed the full potential of the internet to free us of centralized
state and corporate control are the liberal journalists, Dem politicians
and activists who spent years demanding a new censorship regime from
Big Tech."
Matt Taibbi wrote about Big Tech's censorship of Hedges.
So, I quoted Greenwald in a Facebook post, and added a link to Taibbi's piece.
This morning, Facebook alerted me it was censoring my Chris Hedges piece as a "violation of community standards," effectively demonstrating again what Hedges, Greenwald and Taibbi have been warning about for years.
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