Glenn Greenwald has written yet another blistering indictment of big tech censorship in response to Twitter’s permanent suspension of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
As American liberals (including their journalists) yet again celebrate and express gratitude to tech giants for silencing their political enemies — even elected officials — compare their mindset to how the rest of the democratic world thinks to see how authoritarian they are. pic.twitter.com/PrPFctMWhr
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 2, 2022
Even as their Party and leaders are overwhelmingly funded by large corporations, Wall Street and Silicon Valley, Democrats and liberals still like to posture as opponents of corporate power, yet they crave having unelected tech executives control and police political discourse.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 2, 2022
But the more important point is this: Parler took up this challenge from liberals. They started their own platform to offer greater free speech.
Soon as they became the nation’s most-downloaded app, Dems demanded its destruction & tech monopolies obeyed:https://t.co/qD9OdwlPbV
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 2, 2022
One last point: this censorship is not the sole decision of tech companies. Dems are using their majoritarian in DC power to threaten that they will pay unless they censor more. That’s a union of state and corporate power and implicates the 1st Amendment:https://t.co/KBMZpFiSzL
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 2, 2022
