Bret speaks with Matt Taibbi on the subject of the censorship industrial complex. They discuss their views on the recent lack of reaction by traditional liberals to violations of America’s First Amendment. Join Matt Taibbi and Bret in Washington DC for Rescue the Republic on September 29th #^https://jointheresistance.org.
the internet is awash in claims that “califonia just banned political memes” with new bill AB 2655.it’s all online and easy to read. the truth of the matter is somewhat more nuanced and so, in the interest of furthering understanding, let’s see what it actually says because, honestly, in many ways it’s worse than what some are fretting about but it also seems to have a fair few exemptions and loopholes, but that, oddly enough, may make it even worse and what many are calling the “safe bits” seem designed to clothe wolves as sheep and set them in the pen.
Calling flat-out lies "free speech" is bologna.
But this new law addresses a new issue: let's say Stalone posted fake videos generated by AI that show Gere shooting gerbils out his anus. Is this "Sentiment" and/or "opinion" and "protected speech"
I think it's ok to be able to publish what you want as long as you are held responsible.
Glenn Greenwald discusses Brazil's ban of X, the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the global crackdown on speech.Why is the Brazilian government afraid of X?Judge Alexandre de Moraes has blocked the site formerly known as Twitter in Brazil, where an estimated 40 million people access the site each month. Circumventing the ban on X with a VPN could get you fined about $9,000 a day, around the average per capita income in Brazil. It happened after Musk reinstated accounts that the Brazilian state had accused of being part of "digital militias" undermining Brazil's democracy.X's owner Elon Musk has accused the judge of "repeatedly and brazenly" betraying Brazil's constitution, called for his impeachment, and described him as "Brazil's Darth Vader."The judge has accused Musk of "criminal instrumentalization" of the X platform and frozen the assets of Musk's satellite internet company Starlink in the country.Joining us today from Brazil to talk about all this, and the intensifying global crackdown on online speech, is Glenn Greenwald. His show System Update airs every weeknight at 7 p.m. ET on Rumble. An archive of all his latest work is available on his Substack.
ubiquitous and mandatory digital ID is the dream of authoritarian states and the nightmare of anyone seeking privacy or liberty.governments love it.but populations hate it.so how does a budding dictator get a recalcitrant citizenry onboard?with the same shabby trick they always use:they call it safety and the drag in the kids.
in no small irony, the pavel durov russian founder of the widely used text messaging system telegram, who fled russia to avoid interference in his business and the privacy of his users has been arrested. in france. because make no mistake, the EU has become the point of the spear on intrusive mandate that all media, social media, and communications must be subject to the state and to the supra-national groups that organize it. the EU has done nothing but push mandates for surveillance and censorship, for hate speech and “misinformation” which increasingly has come to mean “and facts we don’t like.”he made the (extremely unwise) choice to allow his private jet to land in france for reasons unknown. i suspect there’s a story there as he’s not a fool and must have known what would happen.the french cops swooped, he’s now jailed, and facing 20 years for the heinous crime of “allowing people to speak privately to one another in a manner the EU cannot readily surveil.”governments have been pressuring him to allow their police and intelligence groups access for years.the west has become what we used to vilify china and the soviets for.
the spectacle of the very press whose freedoms the first amendment was explicitly written to defend advocating against free speech is about as clear a sign of an ideology in decline as one could ever ask to see.
so hold this truth to be self-evident: that the role of the state is not to decide upon truth but to defend the right of we the people to debate, discourse, and to make up our own minds free from the tentacles of leviathan.anyone who says different is selling something that you very much do NOT want to buy.
On July 4, 2021, Facebook censored the hashtag #Revolution
Reason’s Emma Camp breaks down what is and is not free speech.
We were not defending their speech. We were resisting giving the government the power to decide that their speech could be banned, because once you gave the government the power to decide that their speech could be banned, you also gave the government the power to decide that your speech could be banned.
