{"id":62076,"date":"2022-03-03T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62076"},"modified":"2022-03-03T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T13:31:18","slug":"defending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62076","title":{"rendered":"Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2022\/03\/02\/defending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship\/\">Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-11160\" class=\"post-11160 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-censorship tag-media tag-rt tag-russia tag-ukraine tag-war\">\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\/03\/medium-2.jpg?485df6&amp;485df6\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2.jpg 970w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/medium-2-768x432.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"545\" \/><\/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\/defending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship\">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%2F1224810733&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>Kremlin-backed media outlets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ursula-von-der-leyen-announces-rt-sputnik-ban\/\">have been banned<\/a>\u00a0throughout the European Union, both on television and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/02\/28\/eu-rt-ban-extends-online\/\">on apps<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/03\/01\/youtube-tiktok-facebook-state-media-ban\/\">online platforms<\/a>. RT has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/mar\/01\/russian-backed-rt-channel-to-lose-sky-tv-slot-in-uk-within-24-hours\">lost its Sky TV slot<\/a>\u00a0in the UK, where the outlet is also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/rt-sputnik-youtube-banned-europe-1235101699\/\">blocked on YouTube<\/a>. Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tvtonight.com.au\/2022\/02\/foxtel-pulls-russia-today-channel-off-air.html\">have dropped RT<\/a>, and the federal government is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/technology\/government-pushes-social-media-giants-to-suspend-russian-state-news-sites-20220301-p5a0n2.html\">putting pressure on social media platforms<\/a>\u00a0to block Russian media in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tn.nova.cz\/zpravodajstvi\/clanek\/455893-za-podporu-rusku-hrozi-vezeni-policie-uz-vysetruje-desitky-podnetu\">Czech Republic<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spravy.rtvs.sk\/2022\/02\/za-podporu-vojnovej-propagandy-hrozi-az-dozivotie\/\">Slovakia<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pardrosibu.lv\/2022\/02\/24\/aicina-zinot-par-krievijas-agresijas-atbalstitajiem-latvija\/\">Latvia<\/a>, speaking in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine will get you years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, historically the last of the major online platforms to jump on any new internet censorship escalation, is now actively minimizing the number of people who see Russian media content,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSafety\/status\/1498344451751784448\">saying<\/a>\u00a0that it is \u201creducing the content\u2019s visibility\u201d and \u201ctaking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter\u201d. This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/censorship-by-algorithm-does-far\">censorship-by-algorithm<\/a>\u00a0tactic is exactly what I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/dorseys-twitter-resignation-sparks\">speculated might emerge<\/a>\u00a0after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned back in November, due to previous comments supportive of that practice by his successor\u00a0Parag Agrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter is also placing warnings labels on all Russia-backed media and delivering a pop-up message informing you that you are committing wrongthink if you try to share or even\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1498785059683598336\">\u2018like\u2019 a post<\/a>\u00a0linking to such outlets on the platform. It has also placed the label \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calebmaupin\/status\/1498329706889977866\">Russia state-affiliated media<\/a>\u201d on every tweet made by the personal accounts of employees of those platforms, baselessly giving the impression that the dissident opinions tweeted by those accounts are paid Kremlin content and not simply their own legitimate perspectives. Some are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RachBlevins\/status\/1498623573338071040\">complaining<\/a>\u00a0that this new label has led to online harassment amid the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/every-us-enemy-is-hitler-notes-from?s=w\">post-9\/11-like anti-Russia hysteria<\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s currently turning western brains into clam chowder.<\/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=1498623573338071040&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fdefending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship%2F&amp;sessionId=c2bcd4c7af2ef63196942cf4e0c6ad46ead21df4&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1498623573338071040\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1498329706889977866&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fdefending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship%2F&amp;sessionId=c2bcd4c7af2ef63196942cf4e0c6ad46ead21df4&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1498329706889977866\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1498785059683598336&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fdefending-freedom-and-democracy-sure-requires-an-awful-lot-of-censorship%2F&amp;sessionId=c2bcd4c7af2ef63196942cf4e0c6ad46ead21df4&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=2582c61%3A1645036219416&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1498785059683598336\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship Listen to a reading of this article: \u2756 Kremlin-backed media outlets\u00a0have been banned\u00a0throughout the European Union, both on television and\u00a0on apps\u00a0and\u00a0online platforms. RT has\u00a0lost its Sky TV slot\u00a0in the UK, where the outlet is also\u00a0blocked on YouTube. Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel\u00a0have dropped [&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":[9336,17039,120,204,338,14545,694,1169,819,821,32695],"class_list":["post-62076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-democracy","tag-freedom","tag-narrative-control","tag-russia","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-wrongthinkwar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62076","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=62076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62077,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62076\/revisions\/62077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}