{"id":58640,"date":"2021-07-17T08:07:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58640"},"modified":"2021-07-17T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:07:53","slug":"biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58640","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Completely Kills The \u201cIt\u2019s A Private Company So It\u2019s Not Censorship\u201d Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/07\/16\/biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument\/\">Biden Administration Completely Kills The \u201cIt\u2019s A Private Company So It\u2019s Not Censorship\u201d Argument<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"eltd-blog-single-share\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-holder eltd-dropdown\">\n<div class=\"eltd-social-share-dropdown\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article id=\"post-10200\" class=\"post-10200 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-biden tag-censorship tag-covid tag-facebook tag-internet tag-psaki tag-vaccine\">\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:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8-1200x800.jpeg?ea9430&amp;ea9430\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/medium-8-128x86.jpeg 128w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/biden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument\"><em>Listen to a reading of this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1088400388&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>In what\u2019s surely the biggest \u201cImagine the outrage if Trump had done that\u201d moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for spreading \u201cdisinformation\u201d about the Covid-19 response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve increased disinformation research and tracking,\u201d Press Secretary Jen Psaki\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1415727354463281159\">told the press<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. \u201cWithin the Surgeon General\u2019s Office, we\u2019re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation. We\u2019re working with doctors and medical professionals to connect medical experts with people, who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content. So, we\u2019re helping get trusted content out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3RlYW1faG9sZGJhY2tfMTE5MjkiOnsiYnVja2V0IjoicHJvZHVjdGlvbiIsInZlcnNpb24iOjd9fQ%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1415727354463281159&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F07%2F16%2Fbiden-administration-completely-kills-the-its-a-private-company-so-its-not-censorship-argument%2F&amp;sessionId=836f601f04558b79789ce578a5817e03cf6fcf1e&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1415727354463281159\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Psaki\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W7VOA\/status\/1415724494690336774\">told the White House press corps<\/a>\u00a0that the administration has a list of accounts who produce most of the anti-vaccine information on Facebook, which civil libertarians are decrying as an obviously authoritarian government overreach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as \u2018problematic\u2019 so that Facebook can remove them,\u201d Glenn Greenwald\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1415725320381079569\">said on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0in response to the news. \u201cThis is the union of corporate and state power \u2014 one of the classic hallmarks of fascism \u2014 that the people who spent five years babbling about fascism support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t find it deeply disturbing that the White House is \u2018flagging\u2019 internet content that they deem \u2018problematic\u2019 to their Facebook allies for removal, then you are definitionally an authoritarian,\u201d Greenwald said. \u201cNo other information is needed about you to know that. There is no circumstance \u2014 none \u2014 in which it\u2019s acceptable for the White House or any other agency of the government to be providing lists to Facebook of \u2018problematic\u2019 content it wants removed, yet that\u2019s exactly what Psaki says they\u2019re doing&#8230;<\/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>Biden Administration Completely Kills The \u201cIt\u2019s A Private Company So It\u2019s Not Censorship\u201d Argument Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 In what\u2019s surely the biggest \u201cImagine the outrage if Trump had done that\u201d moment to date, the Biden administration has admitted that it is giving Facebook a list of accounts to censor for [&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":[43,31457,17039,120,1491,5437,379,14545,31456,827,843],"class_list":["post-58640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-authoritarianism","tag-biden-administration","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-fascism","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-government","tag-narrative-control","tag-private-company","tag-united-states","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58640","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=58640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58641,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58640\/revisions\/58641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}