Do you know if this is the good...non-propaganda stuff that RT puts out? If they (RT) are blocked for propaganda, they're blocked.
Arguing censorship on total BS is a bit like suggesting Twitter censored Trump because they didn't keep the 4 tweets where Trump told the truth.
For the record, for some reason, Mr. Hedges doesn't list his 6 years on RT in his bio...
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.
i appreciated hedges work as a war correspondent early in his career
How many Fully FDA approved drugs were subsequently withdrawn and taken off the market?
dozens / hundreds?
all previous pandemic drugs have been withdrawn
this is no different, eventually they will prohibit use of these vaccines that were designed (in 24 hours, remember!) For a specific 2019 Chinese coronavirus.
you gonna keep getting your tickets for an old touring concert that isn't even around anymore?
actually, this is an ongoing experiment, each batch is hand crafted for experimental goodness, each batch has widely different side effect outcomes. Several websites let you plug in your batch info and it gives you every reported adverse reaction that doctors and health workers documented, from VAERS and the European and UK adverse report databases, for your batch, usually it's just a few towns that get each batch.
Oh and these hand crafted batches are not even FDA approved, they came in via the EUA, and the submitted documents they don't want to release. But you'll be fine.
It's my understanding that YouTube has apparently blocked (or is in the process of blocking) all RT content, including Hedges' "On Contact" archive - which was distributed by RT. They did not just single him out and they have not blocked out his other "non-RT' videos. They already blocked RT, Sputnik, and other Russian state-owned-media content in Europe last week. I doubt much of his program was overt "Russian propaganda" but it was carried by RT, which seems to be the reason that content is blocked. It doesn't seem like a very logical idea to me, but there it is.
RT isn't showing anything that doesn't attack the US or attempt to make it look weak. Hedges may have had some incredibly valid points on his shows, but he is guilty of propaganda by his association with RT.
Hedges mentions RT upfront in his post, but the tweet conveniently ignores that and subtlely re-directs the censorship for the reader at Hedges and not RT. The tweet is meant to enrage and upset without clearly explaining the reason for the removal from YouTube. It works....which is why roughly half of one political party in the US still believes the election in 2020 was stolen.
The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America and RT International, has been disappeared from YouTube. Gone is the interview with Nathaniel Philbrick on his book about George Washington. Gone is the discussion with Kai Bird on his biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Gone is my exploration with Professor Sam Slote from Trinity College Dublin of James Joyceâs âUlysses.â Gone is the show with Benjamin Moser on his biography of Susan Sontag. Gone is the show with Stephen Kinzer on his book on John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. Gone are the interviews with the social critics Cornel West, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Horne, Wendy Brown, Paul Street, Gabriel Rockwell, Naomi Wolff and Slavoj Zizek. Gone are the interviews with the novelists Russell Banks and Salar Abdoh. Gone is the interview with Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, on the case of Leonard Peltier. Gone are the interviews with economists David Harvey and Richard Wolff. Gone are the interviews with the combat veterans and West Point graduates Danny Sjursen and Eric Edstrom about our wars in the Middle East. Gone are the discussions with the journalists Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi. Gone are the voices of those who are being persecuted and marginalized, including the human rights attorney Steven Donziger and the political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. None of the shows I did on mass incarceration, where I interviewed those released from our prisons, are any longer on YouTube. Gone are the shows with the cartoonists Joe Sacco and Dwayne Booth. Melted into thin air, leaving not a rack behind.
I received no inquiry or notice from YouTube. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist, then you donât. I suppose this was done in the name of censoring Russian propaganda, although I have a hard time seeing how a detailed discussion of âUlyssesâ or the biographies of Susan Sontag and J. Robert Oppenheimer had any connection in the eyes of the most obtuse censors in Silicon Valley with Vladimir Putin. Indeed, there is not one show that dealt with Russia. I was on RT because, as a vocal critic of US imperialism, militarism, the corporate control of the two ruling parties, and especially because I support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, I was blacklisted. I was on RT for the same reason the dissident Vaclav Havel, who I knew, was on Voice of America during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It was that or not be heard. Havel had no more love for the policies of Washington than I have for those of Moscow.
Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship? Is this a world we want to inhabit where those who know everything about us and about whom we know nothing can instantly erase us? If this happens to me, it can happen to you, to any critic anywhere who challenges the dominant narrative. And that is where we are headed as the ruling elites refuse to respond to the disenfranchisement and suffering of the working class, opting not for social and political change or the curbing of the rapacious power and obscene wealth of our oligarchic rulers, but instead imposing iron control over information, as if that will solve the mounting social unrest and vast political and social divides.
The most vocal cheerleaders for this censorship are the liberal class. Terrified of the enraged crowds of QAnon conspiracy theorists, Christian fascists, gun-toting militias, and cult-like Trump supporters that grew out of the distortions of neoliberalism, austerity, deindustrialization, and the collapse of social programs, they plead with the digital monopolies to make it all go away. They blame anyone but themselves. Democrats in Congress have held hearings with the CEOs of social media companies pressuring them to do more to censor content. Banish the troglodytes. Then we will have social cohesion. Then life will go back to normal. Fake news. Harm reduction model. Information pollution. Information disorder. They have all sorts of Orwellian phrases to justify censorship. Meanwhile, they peddle their own fantasy that Russia was responsible for the election of Donald Trump. It is a stunning inability to be remotely self-reflective or self-critical, and it is ominous as we move deeper and deeper into a state of political and social dysfunction.
What were my sins? I did not, like my former employer, The New York Times, sell you the lie of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, peddle conspiracy theories about Donald Trump being a Russian asset, put out a 10-part podcast called the Caliphate that was a hoax, or tell you that the information on Hunter Bidenâs laptop was âdisinformation.â I did not prophesize that Joe Biden was the next FDR or that Hillary Clinton was going to win the election.
This censorship is about supporting what, as I.F Stone reminded us, governments always do â lie. Challenge the official lie, as I often did, and you will soon become a nonperson on digital media. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed the truth about the criminal inner workings of power. Look where they are now. This censorship is one step removed from Joseph Stalinâs airbrushing of nonpersons such as Leon Trotsky out of official photographs. It is a destruction of our collective memory. It removes those moments in the media when we attempted to examine our reality in ways the ruling class did not appreciate. The goal is to foster historical amnesia. If we donât know what happened in the past, we cannot make sense of the present.
Do you know if this is the good...non-propaganda stuff that RT puts out? If they (RT) are blocked for propaganda, they're blocked. ...
It's my understanding that YouTube has apparently blocked (or is in the process of blocking) all RT content, including Hedges' "On Contact" archive - which was distributed by RT. They did not just single him out and they have not blocked out his other "non-RT' videos. They already blocked RT, Sputnik, and other Russian state-owned-media content in Europe last week. I doubt much of his program was overt "Russian propaganda" but it was carried by RT, which seems to be the reason that content is blocked. It doesn't seem like a very logical idea to me, but there it is.
Do you know if this is the good...non-propaganda stuff that RT puts out? If they (RT) are blocked for propaganda, they're blocked.
Arguing censorship on total BS is a bit like suggesting Twitter censored Trump because they didn't keep the 4 tweets where Trump told the truth.
For the record, for some reason, Mr. Hedges doesn't list his 6 years on RT in his bio...
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.
"Cancel Culture" is a made-up thing by those who complain about changes they don't like. Else the MAGAnons would be bitching about Colin Kaeppernick being "canceled" from football.
It's called "social evolution". Things change, society as whole continues to evolve & advance, old bullshit falls away, despite those who would cling to the past in desperation because they can't keep up. The Grand Old Poo-Poo Heads politicize it in their panic over being evolved out of existence. "Dr. Seuss was cancelled by the Dems!" No, the publishing company decided to put a few titles out of print because they don't reflect modern understandings of race and other things. Good on them. Plenty of Seuss books still out there, numbnuts.
You can't stop evolution. All this crap will pass, albeit slower than it has to be.
Al Franken would like a staunch anti-Cancel Culture voice like Tucker Carlson to go back in time and make the same arguments.
Is It Time to Cancel Cancel Culture? One of the loudest crusaders against cancel culture squares off against a person said to be one of its victims.
"Cancel Culture" is a made-up thing by those who complain about changes they don't like. Else the MAGAnons would be bitching about Colin Kaeppernick being "canceled" from football.
It's called "social evolution". Things change, society as whole continues to evolve & advance, old bullshit falls away, despite those who would cling to the past in desperation because they can't keep up. The Grand Old Poo-Poo Heads politicize it in their panic over being evolved out of existence. "Dr. Seuss was cancelled by the Dems!" No, the publishing company decided to put a few titles out of print because they don't reflect modern understandings of race and other things. Good on them. Plenty of Seuss books still out there, numbnuts.
You can't stop evolution. All this crap will pass, albeit slower than it has to be.
i grazed the article and i think that they discuss a few valid issues
one being something captured digitally when a person was young (think teens with cell phones and social media) and dragging that out of the past and using it to wreck their career today
there are others
is there an understanding of history and context, and what is the path to common sense and forgiveness?
i'm not sure that any of us know someone that hasn't said or written something silly or something they regret
even comedy and film are obviously loaded with "original sin"
'Freedom of speech' is fast becoming a contradiction in terms that would fit perfectly in Orwell's 1984. It now seems to be 'Freedom of saying only what I agree with'.
Whilst the trend of shouting people down, cancelling them, smearing them rather than debating the issues, outrageously partisan double standards and the rest of the Ministry of Love tactics started in the US, like so many things the UK here is quickly following suit.
Anyone who thinks the tech companies are working in our interests rather than the interests of their billionaire owners needs to wake up.
I think people in the Western democracies have gone mad, either vanishing up their own backsides to avoid facing up to the harsh realities of life outside their little bubbles or cowed into acquiescence. The unintended consequences will damage us for a long time, if we ever recover from them at all. Meanwhile the likes of China laugh and carry on their quest to replace our namby-pamby democracies with hard-edged paternalistic communism.
