Matt Taibbi

Rank 28 of 47

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Score -9

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18h

Listen to This Article: Orwell Watch: On Bill Gates and Climate "Denialism"

Global warming is so powerful, it reversed the meaning of “conspiracy theory”

https://www.racket.news/p/listen…

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21h

That would be hilarious. But we’re not putting Jerry Jones in the White House, are we?

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21h

Yes, that’s fine, but what does Trump have to do with it? It’s like a sensible corporate criticism with a giant lemon twist of crazy on it

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21h

Okay, then, help me out. How is the President responsible for delivering Monday Night Football? In 2015 the games weren’t on YouTube either

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21h

I know for a fact the companies went from being less pressured by governments on speech to more pressured on speech. We saw and published correspondence about these moments (particularly in late 2017) in the Twitter Files

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21h

I think governments forcing companies into censorship schemes is currently the more ominous problem than companies manipulating audience for money.

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22h

Just to be clear, Senator - you want Donald Trump to step in and force ABC and ESPN to make their content available on YouTube?

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1d

He didn’t. He did select the beginning and end dates of the project, though. Which was a bummer.

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1d

I did, in fact, spend years attacking tech billionaires for their Orwellian vision. The only time I did not do that was when they became forced subjects of even wider Orwellian schemes by governments and intel agencies (eg Europe and its “trusted flaggers” system).

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1d

This clip by Obama hits at the most dangerous theme in new censorship movements, the idea that “facts” are singular things that can be identified by committees of experts. Experts are frequently wrong, which is why Obama is wrong - we do need to allow “alternative facts.”