{"id":31596,"date":"2018-02-25T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31596"},"modified":"2018-02-25T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:25:33","slug":"mother-jones-senior-reporter-asks-medium-to-silence-antiwar-leftists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31596","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mother Jones\u2019 Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar\u00a0Leftists"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Mother Jones\u2019 Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar\u00a0Leftists<\/a><\/h3>\n
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When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts<\/a> of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following<\/a> in response:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only people cheering for this are leftists who haven\u2019t been paying attention and centrists who have. This ongoing trend of marginalizing online dissent is already impacting the far left, and will do so more and more. The #MAGA crowd are the canaries in the coal mine, lefties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours later, right on cue, prominent Mother Jones<\/em> Senior Reporter Shane Bauer was singing the praises<\/a> of Medium\u2019s recent account suspensions, and tagged Medium\u2019s Twitter account saying they need to take it further and include left-wing writers like myself due to my repeated criticisms of the pro-regime change Syria narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is good,\u201d Bauer tweeted, \u201cbut If @Medium is serious about cracking down on conspiracy theorists, it needs to go beyond the alt-right and reign in the garbage published on Syria by people like @caitoz.\u201d<\/p>\n

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See how quickly that happened? Bauer wasn\u2019t the first to call on Medium to silence leftist writers like me for our skepticism of an empire with an extensive history<\/a> of using lies, false flags and propaganda to manufacture support for regime change interventionism against noncompliant nations, and he will not be the last. They get you okay with silencing offensive right-wing voices (who contrary to Bauer\u2019s claim are in this case not even \u201calt-right\u201d by anyone\u2019s standards, including the Anti-Defamation League<\/a>), then they target the true left, who present the biggest threat to the US oligarchs.<\/p>\n

Empire loyalists like Bauer will continue demanding that Medium delete writers like me who unapologetically promote skepticism of establishment narratives involving longtime imperialist targets like Russia and Syria, and they may well succeed, which will set me back a bit since I\u2019ve spent nearly a year building up an audience there.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Mother Jones\u2019 Senior Reporter Asks Medium To Silence Antiwar\u00a0Leftists When news first broke that Medium, one of my primary blogging platforms, had closed the accounts of Trump-supporting pundits Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer, I tweeted the following in response: \u201cThe only people cheering for this are leftists who haven\u2019t been paying attention and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18942,18941,17039,259,14273,18940,694,776,3142],"class_list":["post-31596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alt-right","tag-antiwar-leftists","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-empire","tag-medium","tag-mother-jones","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31597,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31596\/revisions\/31597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}