Once monopolistic institutions reach a particular critical mass, it’s safe to say, for all intents and purposes, they have become a part of the commons. But big tech is doing just that, and by their own admission, explained Greenwald. joined Freddie Sayers, Paul Embery and Giles Fraser to talk post-liberal idylls on UnHerds Lockdown TV. Censoring users to stifle political diversity is antidemocratic. Posts about Unherd written by Mary Harrington. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, are essential to journalism. 2 3 Freddie Sayers joined the magazine in 2019 as executive editor. 1 Journalist Sally Chatterton, who previously wrote for The Daily Telegraph and The Independent, took over as editor. Both Sayers and Greenwald point out that it shouldn’t have to be this way. UnHerd was founded in 2017 by conservative British political activist Tim Montgomerie, who also acted as editor. If you have a connection to the ruling class, somehow, you get a pass. But this amounts to a system of patronage, a corrupt political patronage, where the only thing that matters is connections. And as you’ll hear from this podcast, the brilliant academic has some insightful perspectives on how his former homeland is handling the Covid-19 crisis. But Glenn Greenwald has a big enough platform/following that he was able to get his fellow Twitter colleague’s account restored. Although he left the country as a 16 year old, Pretoria-born Nobel laureate, Stanford professor Michael Levitt, still describes himself as proudly South African.
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Evidently, Twitter decided he didn’t deserve free speech because they disagreed with his politics. In today’s UnHerdTV, he expanded on his thinking and explained why he didn’t think restrictions would be coming in before Christmas: Most of the modellers think that cases, hospitalisations and deaths will fall over the coming months because of the very high levels of population immunity thanks to a combination of vaccination and natural immunity. Similarly, Greenwald mentioned recently defending an African-American communist on Twitter with a following of about 30,000 people, who had his Twitter account arbitrarily suspended.
UnHerd was able to make enough noise due to having a large following of support to have their video put back up by YouTube. First two weeks of lockdown so you get rid of the contagion from the streets and the shops and everywhere, then another two weeks to make sure that spread within families comes down to as near zero as possible.I put it to him that what that practically means is on-off lockdowns all the way until the vaccine has been very widely distributed.
And Sayers mentioned how their viewers alerted UnHerd that some of their more controversial videos were being downgraded in the search results by the YouTube algorithm. Greenwald had to leave The Intercept, which he co-founded due to censorship issues. YouTube > UnHerd > Lockdown TV > Freddie Sayers > Glen Greenwald > Big Tech Censorshipīeyond COVID-19 debate censorship by big tech corporations in Silicon Valley, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, Sayers and Greenwald discussed their respective experiences with censorship in the recent past.
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