{"id":36753,"date":"2018-08-16T19:50:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36753"},"modified":"2018-08-16T19:50:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T00:50:40","slug":"taibbi-censorship-does-not-end-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36753","title":{"rendered":"Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Censorship Does Not End Well<\/a><\/h3>\n

How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Infowars’ Alex Jones and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n

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Silicon Valley is changing its mind about censorship.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago, we learned about a new campaign against \u201cinauthentic\u201d content<\/a>, conducted by Facebook in consultation with Congress and the secretive think tank Atlantic Council \u2014 whose board includes an array of ex-CIA and Homeland Security officials \u2014 in the name of cracking down on alleged Russian disinformation efforts.\u00ad As part of the bizarre alliance of Internet news distributors and quasi-government censors, the social network zapped 32 accounts and pages, including an ad for a real \u201cNo Unite the Right 2\u201d<\/a> anti-racist counter-rally in D.C. this past weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a real protest in Washington, D.C. It is not George Soros. It is not Russia.\u00a0It is just us,\u201d said the event\u2019s organizers, a coalition of easily located Americans, in a statement.<\/p>\n

Last week, we saw another flurry of censorship news. Facebook apparently suspended VenezuelaAnalysis.com<\/a>, a site critical of U.S. policy toward Venezuela. (It was reinstated Thursday.) Twitter suspended a pair of libertarians, including @DanielLMcAdams<\/a> of the Ron Paul Institute and @ScottHortonShow<\/a> of Antiwar.com, for using the word \u201cbitch\u201d<\/a> (directed toward a man) in a silly political argument. They, too, were later re-instated.<\/p>\n

More significantly: Google\u2019s former head of free expression issues in Asia, Lokman Tsui, blasted the tech giant\u2019s plan to develop a search engine that would help the Chinese government censor content.<\/p>\n

First reported by The Intercept<\/a><\/em>, the plan was called \u201ca stupid, stupid move\u201d by Tsui, who added: \u201cI can\u2019t see a way to operate Google search in China without violating widely held international human rights standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Censorship Does Not End Well How America learned to stop worrying and put Mark Zuckerberg in charge of everything Infowars’ Alex Jones and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Brooks Kraft\/Getty Images, Alex Brandon\/AP\/REX Shutterstock Silicon Valley is changing its mind about censorship. Two weeks ago, we learned about a new campaign against \u201cinauthentic\u201d content, conducted by […]<\/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":[6586,18453,120,1493,15980,3733,21272,9252],"class_list":["post-36753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alex-jones","tag-atlantic-council","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-matt-taibbi","tag-rolling-stone-magazine","tag-silicon-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753","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=36753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36754,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36753\/revisions\/36754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}