Independent journalist, author and founder of the website Substack.com shared his thoughts on free speech, censorship, and Elon Muskr:
In US culture, we’re inculcated from childhood that censorship is bad. So of course nobody — especially journalists — wants to say: “I favor censorship.”
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
That’s why they need euphemisms like “content moderation”: to pretend it’s about bots, abuse, etc. rather than ideology.
Yesterday was a flagship day in corporate media. It was the day they were forced to explicitly state what has long been clear: they not only favor censorship but desperately crave and depend on it.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
Even if Musk doesn’t buy Twitter, never forget what yesterday revealed.
There are many reasons to be skeptical of Musk’s motives and, even if pure, his ability to restore free speech to Twitter. Way too many powerful interests need this censorship. But the panic reveals so much. My @getcallin show yesterday covered all this:https://t.co/Tqyryl7S3R
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
Social media was heralded as an innovation that would liberate individuals from centralized control by the state and oligarchical power over their speech.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
It has become the exact opposite: the most powerful tool of information control and speech constraints ever devised.
Really can’t remember a more mask-dropping moment for how employees of large media corporations think.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 15, 2022
She’s really saying, earnestly, there would be global catastrophe if the peasants and serfs were “allowed to run wild” on Twitter: meaning, speak without political censorship: https://t.co/LZwlENDy8s
