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Matt Taibbi
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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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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Matt Taibbi
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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.”
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