First off, I like Glenn Greenwald very much as a journalist. Remember that he and Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden disclose to the world what he did, in 201

First off, I like Glenn Greenwald very much as a journalist. Remember that he and Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden disclose to the world what he did, in 2013. In other words, as a journalist, he does, or should command a huge amount of respect from the HN community. He has my respect. Now, with that as a background, let's talk about this article. It's an important article, and yes, broadly speaking, the claims that are made are true. But the problem I have with this article (and not with Glenn Greenwald personally, who again, is a great journalist!) is that it's a little bit too broad... To give you an understanding of this, let's say that in the future, I ran an online service with an App Store, like Apple or Google. OK, so now, for whatever reason, the Parler App is removed from the App Store that I run. But, to tell me (and the newsreader) that it was an act of Tech Tyranny, of Monopolistic Force -- is not good enough. You see, I believe in several things: 1) Strong Logging 2) Chain Of Command 3) Chain Of Custody But most importantly, the "5 Whys": 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys In other words, I'd like (as a member of the public) an "organizational backtrace", starting with the engineer who physically removed the App from the app store, moving from there to his manager that ordered it, and moving from there up levels of management. In other words, WHO ordered WHAT, WHEN, and WHY. In other words, don't start with the highest level effect, the silencing of free speech, start with the lowest level effect -- the physical removal of the App from the App Store by the engineer that did it. From that point, use the 5 WHYS to work backward, something like, "OK, this engineer did this because he was ordered to by his manager", so WHY did the manager do it?, "Because he was ordered to by his manager", etc. But now the question arises -- Who was at the highest level of management at that company that gave that order? And now we ask WHY again... so we need to talk to him, and find out exactly WHY (what socio-political-moral-ethic-legal-or-whatever pressure was applied to him, and how?) See, answer all of those questions, and THEN you have the true story! But all this being said, I do love Glenn Greenwald!