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The elites (and the corporate journalists of billionaires) often control what is “allowable” as speech with reach. Free speech is allowable so long as it doesn’
by notlukesky 4y ago
The elites (and the corporate journalists of billionaires) often control what is “allowable” as speech with reach. Free speech is allowable so long as it doesn’t have reach. Once you pass that line you become a target for elimination like Assange. Look for allowable discourse from weathervanes like billionaire owned and controlled media like the NY Times, Washington Post, The Economist etc…
Remember when the FBI would target black authors:
https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/fbi-monitored-african-american-writers-j-edgar-hoover https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/09/fbi-monitored-...
The Overton window:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
- thenerdhead 4y agoAnd when they would police writers in general: https://web.archive.org/web/20220821062432/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1987/10/05/policing-americas-writers https://web.archive.org/web/20220821062432/https://www.newyo...
- notlukesky 4y agoSoft power is enforced by hard power. Now the bidding for enforcement is outsourced to hall monitors on social media accusing even academics of being foreign agents or treasonous or some -ism.