{"id":61253,"date":"2022-01-03T07:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61253"},"modified":"2022-01-03T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:38:51","slug":"those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61253","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/01\/03\/those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity\/\">Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity<\/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-10941\" class=\"post-10941 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-censorship tag-internet tag-marjorie-taylor-greene tag-narrative tag-silicon-valley tag-twitter\">\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\/2022\/01\/medium-1200x657.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-1200x657.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/medium.jpg 1440w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"657\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/those-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity\">Listen to a reading of this article:<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1189167922&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1060\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2756<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZTPetrizzo\/status\/1477650116009943041\">permanently suspended<\/a>\u00a0the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls \u201crepeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,\u201d much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/silicon-valley-should-not-restrict\">Twitter ban of Dr Robert Malone<\/a>\u00a0on the same grounds a few days prior, which followed an unbroken pattern of continually escalating and expanding censorship protocols ever since the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<p>In reality nobody ever gets banned for \u201cCovid misinformation\u201d; that\u2019s just today\u2019s excuse. Before that it was the fallout from the Capitol riot, before that it was election security, before that it was Russian disinformation, foreign influence ops, fake news, etc. In reality the real agenda behind the normalization of internet censorship is the normalization of internet censorship itself. That\u2019s the real reason so many people get banned.<\/p>\n<p>I myself had already written\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/internet-censorship-just-took-an-unprecedented-leap-forward-and-hardly-anyone-noticed-e6ae2d8adaf2\">many<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/09\/12\/have-you-noticed-how-social-media-purges-always-align-with-the-us-empire\/\">many<\/a>\u00a0articles warning warning about the increasingly widespread use of internet censorship via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/silicon-valley-algorithm-manipulation\">algorithm manipulation<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/08\/10\/in-a-corporatist-system-of-government-corporate-censorship-is-state-censorship\/\">deplatforming<\/a>\u00a0long before\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/why-you-should-oppose-the-censorship-of-david-icke-hint-its-got-nothing-to-do-with-icke-4cb72d19481c\">the first \u201cCovid misinformation\u201d bans<\/a>\u00a0started happening.\u00a0Arguably the most significant political moment in the US since 9\/11 and its aftermath was when liberal institutions decided that Trump\u2019s 2016 election was not a failure of status quo politics but a failure of information control, which just so happened to align perfectly with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/society-is-made-of-narrative-realizing\">agendas of the ruling power structure<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/steemit.com\/msm\/@caitlinjohnstone\/whoever-controls-the-narrative-controls-the-world\">control the dominant narratives<\/a>\u00a0about what\u2019s going on in the world.<\/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=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1477650872339468294&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F01%2F03%2Fthose-who-support-internet-censorship-lack-psychological-maturity%2F&amp;sessionId=2a53060731fc129feaa476262e43cb50efe88f1c&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9fd78d5%3A1638479056965&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1477650872339468294\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>We saw this exemplified in 2017\u00a0when Google, Facebook and Twitter were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/11\/01\/goog-n01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called before the Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>\u00a0and instructed to come up with a strategy \u201cto prevent the fomenting of discord\u201d.<\/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>Those Who Support Internet Censorship Lack Psychological Maturity Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Twitter has\u00a0permanently suspended\u00a0the personal account of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what the platform calls \u201crepeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,\u201d much to the delight of liberals and pro-censorship leftists everywhere. This follows the\u00a0Twitter ban of Dr [&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":[17039,32381,5437,1339,9419,1169,819],"class_list":["post-61253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorhship","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-internet","tag-internet-censorship","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253","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=61253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61254,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61253\/revisions\/61254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}