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Glenn Greenwald. The most consequential - yet overlooked - Trump era change is many debates are no longer shaped by old left/right divisions, but instead by who loves, respects, and is loyal to institutions of authority (Dems) and who believes they're fundamentally corrupted (Trump supporters). Today's NYT column by @ezraklein notes obvious ...
Greenwald is by no means a free speech absolutist, he abandoned that in 2019 when he showed up on Tucker Carlson's show criticizing Section 230. He also is now taking Peter Thiel money to join Rumble, Peter Thiel being the same person who attacked Wikileaks via Team Themis, and also destroyed Gawker through Hulk Hogan.
Glenn Greenwald on Twitter: "It's really amazing that the political faction obsessed with deploying a union of state and corporate power to silence their political opponents has somehow convinced itself that they're the ones fighting -- rather than constructing -- a fascist order."
Glenn Greenwald posted an excerpt from Norm Finklestein's book on twitter, where he describes being banned from Amy Goodman's show for telling a female staffer that she looked young enough to be one of Michael Jackson's playmates.
Very telling Greenwald tweet where he highlights countries banning 'fake news' and leaves out Russia. There are now countries with laws banning and punishing "fake news": Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Qatar (where those guilty of "fake news" can be jailed for 5 years). The results are exactly what you'd expect: dissent is deemed "false" or dangerous.
For the Glenn Greenwald Debate. Suggestion. u/NeoDestiny. I suggest for the D-Man to take a look at the linked page, about the more funny Greenwaldisms (sockpuppet accounts, his law degree and grades, winning a Pulitzer, how litigious he is, his funding etc.), in case Glenn wants to go low again, ala wikipedia-andy or "just a gamer".
Glenn continually sneering at the line about how everyone already knew that Twitter was shadow banning etc. suggests to me that he is coming at this from a very partisan angle. It's about drumming up the idea that this is something new and outrageous, without challenging the systems that enabled this to happen in the first place.
The fact is without this interpretation the "Twitter files" don't seem that much of a bombshell at all. Most of that stuff people knew was happening or expected it. A lot of it's understandable and you get where the Twitter employees are coming from. The commentary is what makes it a "scandal" by embellishing what was actually found.
This twitter thread links to many sources showing Greenwald's history defending alt-right types, including literal neo-nazis, in court. He supported right-wing, John Birch, libertarian Ron Paul, and contributed to right wing think tanks like Cato.
Before this Adam made an actual argument and instead of even pretending to address it all Greenwald has is lazy insults. Do any of these supposed "last real journalists left" like Mate, Glenn, or Blumenthal do anything but bitch incessantly now. It’s quite a shame to see the deterioration of Greenwald’s positions.