Free speech criticism has unlikely source: the press

[Ptarmigan]

Free speech criticism has unlikely source: the press
https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/free-speech-criticism-has-unlikely-source-press

When the far-right website Infowars was banned by all the major tech platforms in 2018, mainstream media outlets didn't come to the defense of founder Alex Jones, whom they described as a conspiracy theorist.

Two years later, the same outlets had a similar non-response when Big Tech imposed another media ban — this one on the New York Post, one of America's oldest and most well-established newspapers.

Indeed, in October 2020, Facebook suppressed an accurate Post story on the laptop and business dealings of President Biden's son, Hunter Biden. Twitter then blocked users from posting or reading the story and even locked the Post's primary Twitter account. Both tech giants said they acted to prevent the spread of misinformation.

Prominent media outlets, such as the New York Times, either ignored the Hunter Biden story or cast doubt on its authenticity, although they readily reported on the now-debunked public letter by 51 former intelligence officials portrayed as dismissing the Post's reporting as Russian disinformation.

Long read, but worth reading.

The legacy news media is for censorship.

[DefiantSix]

Long read, but worth reading.

The legacy news media is for censorship.

Of course they are. Censorship of "alternate" information sources goes hand in hand with reinforcing their own line of bullshit propaganda. Wouldn't wantbthe rubes you're gaslighting to have a source of information outside of the abuser's control, now would we???