{"id":52958,"date":"2020-05-03T06:41:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52958"},"modified":"2020-05-03T06:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T11:41:14","slug":"why-you-should-oppose-the-censorship-of-david-icke-hint-its-got-nothing-to-do-with-icke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52958","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It\u2019s Got Nothing To Do With Icke)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It\u2019s Got Nothing To Do With\u00a0Icke)<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Within 48 hours both Facebook<\/a> and then Youtube<\/a> have deleted the accounts of David Icke for posting \u201ccontent that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS.\u201d Other platforms may soon fall in suit, as they did with Alex Jones<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is not about David Icke. I will say it again in italics for the especially dense: this article is not about David Icke<\/em>. This article is about why we shouldn\u2019t be okay with monopolistic billionaire-owned Silicon Valley tech giants with extensive ties to US government agencies controlling human communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know next to nothing about David Icke, and I have done exactly zero research into his views for this article; for all I know he\u2019s every bit the raving lunatic the narrative managers say he is. It doesn\u2019t matter. What matters is that we\u2019re seeing a consistent and accelerating pattern of powerful plutocratic institutions collaborating with the US-centralized empire to control what ideas people around the world are permitted to share with each other, and it\u2019s a\u00a0very<\/em>\u00a0unsafe trajectory. Making this conversation about Icke and his views distracts from the very important topic we need to actually focus on discussing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>Matt Taibbi\u2714<\/strong>@mtaibbi<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/temporary-coronavirus-censorship\u00a0\u2026<\/a>The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is HereAs the Covid-19 crisis progresses, censorship programs advance, amid calls for China-style control of the Internettaibbi.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Journalist Matt Taibbi recently wrote an excellent essay<\/a> about the dangers inherent in the increased demand we\u2019ve been seeing for more censorship and deplatforming during the coronavirus pandemic, correctly arguing that more authoritarian control over the ideas people are allowed to discuss is vastly more dangerous than the ideas themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Why You Should Oppose The Censorship Of David Icke (Hint: It\u2019s Got Nothing To Do With\u00a0Icke) Within 48 hours both Facebook and then Youtube have deleted the accounts of David Icke for posting \u201ccontent that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO and the NHS.\u201d Other platforms may soon fall in suit, as they did […]<\/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":[17039,120,28817,29589,3717,14545,655,855],"class_list":["post-52958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-coronavirus","tag-david-icke","tag-disinformation","tag-narrative-control","tag-propaganda","tag-viral-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52958","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=52958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52958\/revisions\/52959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}