Paul Jay and Joe Lauria break down the disturbing trends of big tech censorship of dissident journalism at the World Ethical Data Forum.
Volume 29, Number 356— Saturday, December 21, 2024
Paul Jay and Joe Lauria break down the disturbing trends of big tech censorship of dissident journalism at the World Ethical Data Forum.
Many Thanks for this commitment… Consortiumnews has always been a precious resource for excellent journalistic reporting. Keep up the battle.
People who consume independent media do so because the legacy media fails to inform them to their satisfaction. Jay’s call for reaching more of the working masses who are tired, stressed, and struggling daily just to survive until next pay day is somewhat nestled in his urban privilege. People in this situation don’t care about vaccines and masks or lockdowns, or Russigate conspiracy. They care about their economic situation, and have little time and pondering on anything else. Else they would do so in much greater numbers.
As Caitlin Johnstone incisively posits:
“The Mass Media Will Never Regain the Public’s Trust”
The response of the ‘sociopathetic’ oligarchic owners of everything, since time immemorial, has always been: “Who Cares”, unless of course a figure of conscious, critical mind, such as a Julian Assange pops up and actually begins to directly upset their applecart of intents and interests.
Especially when one of their own lowlife’s behaviors (Jeffrey Epstein) are brought to light – discovery of which may impinge upon their own self-delusional rectitude – perhaps because of the depth of one of their ‘betters’ own proclivities in such engagement (Prince Andrew), unlike a commons, more reputable, up front – transparent journalist, such as Julian Assange, the exposed cancer in the host body, is simply excised.
In Julian Assange’s case, the reactive defense strategy of the untouchable owning elite 1% was, more simply, to arbitrarily banish him from the living. And in this they have accomplished their goal; to prevent the information he was putting forth from getting out to the already debased ‘doings’.
No other truths have come even close to threatening the monopolistic power of this oligarchy, as has Julian Assange; that rarity of a righteous human – being human, in contemporary terms, serving the interests of the 99% of us who are daily being reduced; consciously unwittingly hook line and sinker; being blindly led to the inescapable prison wherein enhanced psychological methods for enforcing lifetime servitude are being applied.
“They won’t own anything but they will be happy” as we the elite define happiness for the have-nots. All will be well without, while we within, continue to lavish upon ourselves the fruits of our unique exceptionalism, behind our private walls.
An ‘others’ opinion from the underside of the tip of the hidden, foreboding iceberg of catastrophe!
I believe Paul Jay is right, when he says he needs to visit rural America. He seems to have a very deep rooted urban perspective in how he sees this land.