{"id":50202,"date":"2019-12-18T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50202"},"modified":"2019-12-18T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T22:07:43","slug":"establishment-journalists-call-for-big-tech-to-censor-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50202","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Journalists Call For Big Tech to Censor Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ESTABLISHMENT JOURNALISTS CALL FOR BIG TECH TO CENSOR EVERYONE ELSE<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In a major threat to what\u2019s left of press freedom, establishment journalists are calling for Big Tech to censor those who won\u2019t parrot the government-approved official narrative. Journalist Sulome Anderson has publically called for censorship of a site because it\u2019s an independent news source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson publicly requested that Google de-rank the independent news site The Grayzone<\/em><\/a>. Anderson, who, according to her bio on her Twitter page<\/a>, has published with news outlets such as The Washington Post<\/em>, Newsweek<\/em>, New York Magazine<\/em>, and Foreign Policy<\/em>, labeled a recent article by Grayzone<\/em> contributor Rania Khalek<\/a> as \u201cdangerous\u201d. For her part, Khalek called Anderson\u2019s comments to Google a \u201cdangerous threat to press freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalek\u2019s article, which Anderson specifically took aim at, is part of a two-piece investigation<\/a> into alleged U.S. and Gulf states attempts to co-opt and influence the ongoing anti-corruption protests in Lebanon, according to Sputnik News.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khalek writes that<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy joining the roadblocks around Beirut, the protesters have inadvertently allowed themselves to be used by these US-allied parties. Whether they know it or not, the media-friendly artists and students at the ring road in downtown Beirut have given cover to the Lebanese Forces roadblocks in the north and the [Progressive Socialist Party] and Future Party roadblocks in the south.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who decides which protests are worthy\/unworthy? And why?

It\u2019s all about location!

Protest against a government the US hates and you’ll get the hero treatment in US media.

But protest against a US ally and you\u2019re a rioter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch my handy guide: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anderson lashed out against the article, calling The Grayzone<\/em> a \u201cconspiracy theorist website\u201d worth of Google\u2019s power-hungry censorship:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s Not a Conspiracy Theory\u2026 It Is Happening Right Now\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESTABLISHMENT JOURNALISTS CALL FOR BIG TECH TO CENSOR EVERYONE ELSE In a major threat to what\u2019s left of press freedom, establishment journalists are calling for Big Tech to censor those who won\u2019t parrot the government-approved official narrative. Journalist Sulome Anderson has publically called for censorship of a site because it\u2019s an independent news source. Anderson […]<\/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":[120,938,27421],"class_list":["post-50202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-press-freedom","tag-the-grayzone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202","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=50202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50203,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202\/revisions\/50203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}