Elon’s Banning Spree & The Media’s Sudden Conversion to Free Speech Absolutists
Elon’s Banning Spree & The Media’s Sudden Conversion to Free Speech AbsolutistsVIDEO TRANSCRIPT: Plus, an interview with Michael Tracey on Twitter censorship
Watch System Update Episode #5 here on Rumble. Note From Glenn Greenwald: The following is the full show transcript, for subscribers only, of a recent episode of our System Update program, broadcast live on Rumble on Friday, December 16, 2022. As I indicated last week, we now have a service in place that will produce full transcripts of all the live shows we do – Monday through Friday, live on Rumble, at 7:00 pm ET – for our subscribers here. We have a backlog of the first ten episodes from the first two weeks of shows that we'll post here over the next five days. We will be off from Wednesday, December 28 until Sunday, January 1. We'll be back live on Monday, January 2, 2023, and will start publishing full transcripts of every show here within the next 24 hours for those we prefer to read the program rather than watch. In this episode, we take a look at the new horde of free speech champions: the very same people in the corporate media, the Democratic Party, the US and EU governments who spent years building the censorship regime used by big tech and have been endlessly demanding its expansion, are today waving the banner of free speech because for the first time the targets of censorship are not their political enemies, but themselves, their friends and their political allies. We'll examine all the implications of this spate of banning from Twitter aimed at various journalists. And then we'll speak to independent journalist Michael Tracey to explore several related issues. Monologue: Gather around, everyone, I want to share a story with you -- a nice story for the holiday season. It's about a woman named Jane Harman. Some of you may remember her from the sixteen years she spent as a Democratic member of Congress representing California's 36th congressional district. First elected in 1993, she served continuously, except for a two-year hiatus when she unsuccessfully sought her party's nomination to be governor, losing to Gray Davis. In 2011, she finally resigned her seat, in part due to anger that Nancy Pelosi refused to appoint her as chair of the House Intelligence Committee. Harman and her political directory bear remarkable resemblance to her fellow California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, who also unsuccessfully ran for governor of that state. They're almost identical. Like Feinstein, Harman was one of the wealthiest people in Congress by virtue of having married a mogul. She was basically an establishment liberal economic and cultural debates. But like Feinstein, she was one of the most steadfast, loyal and aggressive defenders of the U.S. security state, defending every secret program and secret power of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and Homeland Security. Despite being a Democrat, Harman, like Feinstein, was one of the most important allies of the Bush-Cheney administration in its so-called war on terror, including all sorts of programs that clearly ran roughshod over the civil liberties and privacy rights of American citizens, using her position as the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, and thus one of the so-called Gang of Eight, which received the most sensitive classified briefings. Jane Harman was one of the most reliable and steadfast defenders of everything the CIA, FBI, and NSA did. In late 2005, just weeks after I began writing about politics, which I did in order to shine a light on what I regarded as the civil liberties assault being carried out in the name of the War on Terror, The New York Times published a blockbuster story…... Subscribe to Glenn Greenwald to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Glenn Greenwald to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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