{"id":54714,"date":"2020-08-16T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54714"},"modified":"2020-08-16T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T12:37:50","slug":"how-we-could-wind-up-banned-from-discussing-an-october-surprise-on-social-media-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54714","title":{"rendered":"How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/08\/15\/how-we-could-wind-up-banned-from-discussing-an-october-surprise-on-social-media-this-election\/\">How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-8738\" class=\"post-8738 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-censorship tag-election tag-google tag-hack tag-social-media tag-speech tag-youtube\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-4.png?fit=1080%2C600&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-4.png?w=1080&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-4.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-4.png?resize=768%2C427&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-4.png?resize=1024%2C569&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>In what it calls an effort to make itself \u201ca more reliable source for election-related news and information,\u201d YouTube\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.youtube\/news-and-events\/an-update-on-how-youtube-supports-elections\/\">has announced<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0that it will be removing \u201ccontent that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes, such as elections and censuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, videos that contain hacked information about a political candidate shared with the intent to interfere in an election,\u201d adds the Google-owned video sharing platform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1294025341015601153&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F08%2F15%2Fhow-we-could-wind-up-banned-from-discussing-an-october-surprise-on-social-media-this-election%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1294025341015601153\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This by itself is an alarming assault on human communication and press freedom. If there is authentic information out there about either of the candidates who are up for the most powerful elected position on the planet, the world is entitled to know about it, regardless of how that information was acquired. Monopolistic tech oligarchs have no business barring us from learning about and discussing that information.<\/p>\n<p>Immensely powerful people should not be permitted to have secrets from the public anyway. The amount of power one has should be directly inverse to the amount of secrecy they are permitted to have. If you\u2019re anywhere near the presidency of the United States of America, the secrecy you are entitled to should be zero.<\/p>\n<p>If a hacker is able to get ahold of accurate information about Donald Trump or Joe Biden, that information is ours. We\u2019re entitled to it. Anyone who tries to obstruct our access to that information is stealing from us. It\u2019s absolutely ridiculous that we have a society where people are permitted to both rule over us and keep secrets from us as it is without\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/12\/technology\/google-facebook-coalition-us-election.html\">government-aligned<\/a>\u00a0tech plutocrats silencing our attempts to learn what those secrets might be.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How We Could Wind Up Banned From Discussing An October Surprise On Social Media This Election In what it calls an effort to make itself \u201ca more reliable source for election-related news and information,\u201d YouTube\u00a0has announced\u00a0\u00a0that it will be removing \u201ccontent that contains hacked information, the disclosure of which may interfere with democratic processes, such [&hellip;]<\/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":[27079,9336,17039,120,1493,378,9746,14545,1169,819,880,3931],"class_list":["post-54714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-2020-us-presidential-election","tag-big-tech","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-instagram","tag-narrative-control","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-wikileaks","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54714","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=54714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54714\/revisions\/54715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}