{"id":39192,"date":"2018-10-15T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39192"},"modified":"2018-10-15T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:41:48","slug":"self-censorship-where-the-real-damage-is-being-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39192","title":{"rendered":"Self-Censorship: Where The Real Damage Is Being Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Self-Censorship: Where The Real Damage Is Being Done<\/a><\/h3>\n
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I was going to write another article today about a different topic, but I backed down because I didn\u2019t think I could deliver the kind of fiery, forceful, unmitigated argument it would need to be without risking getting banned from social media and blogging platforms.<\/p>\n

The article I was planning on writing, which you\u2019ll just have to imagine now, would have been titled \u201d \u2018Assange Can Leave Whenever He Wants!\u2019 No, Idiot, He Can\u2019t.\u201d The feature image was going to be a screen shot of a blue-checkmarked empire loyalist named Greg Olear\u00a0tweeting<\/a> the infuriatingly dopey argument that Assange is free to just waltz out the embassy doors whenever he wants, so therefore he isn\u2019t actually being imprisoned by an Orwellian power establishment for publishing authentic documents about powerful people. Never mind the fact that you can say exactly the same thing about literally anyone under political asylum; they are all free to leave the political asylum they\u2019ve been granted at any time, and pointing this out is just describing the thing that political asylum is. Never mind the fact that a UN panel ruled<\/a> that Assange is being arbitrarily detained by the threat of imprisonment. Never mind that the same US government which tortured Chelsea Manning<\/a> is currently openly pursuing Assange\u2019s arrest<\/a> because of his publications, making the assertion that he\u2019s \u201cfree to leave\u201d the same as saying he\u2019s \u201cfree\u201d to jump off a cliff. People don\u2019t want to believe that their government imprisons journalists, so whenever Assange is in the news you see this argument making the rounds.<\/p>\n

It would have been a firecracker of an article, but when it came time to write it, I backed down. I\u2019d generally rather scrap an article than write something tepid and boring that won\u2019t make any impact, so the risk of losing access to my platforms outweighed my desire to write what I\u2019d planned on writing.<\/p>\n

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Self-Censorship: Where The Real Damage Is Being Done I was going to write another article today about a different topic, but I backed down because I didn\u2019t think I could deliver the kind of fiery, forceful, unmitigated argument it would need to be without risking getting banned from social media and blogging platforms. The article […]<\/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":[17039,120,9847,379,22326,22327,2001,3323,827],"class_list":["post-39192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-chelsea-manning","tag-government","tag-greg-olear","tag-imprisonment","tag-julian-assange","tag-self-censorship","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192","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=39192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39193,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions\/39193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}