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The Unbearable Levity of Digital Monopolies

February 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Cuba

by Rosa Miriam Elizalde, published on Resumen English, February 17, 2021 The closure of Trump’s accounts comes too late and does not have the smell of carnations, but of another discretionary practice of private Internet monopolies, which act according to the winds blowing in Washington. Trump’s expulsion from the paradise of social media platforms, as a result of the assault[…]

Under US Pressure, Social Media Companies Censor Critical Content and Suspend Venezuelan,Iranian and Syrian Accounts

January 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Corporatism

by Ben Norton, published on The Grayzone, January 12, 2020 The Donald Trump administration is ramping up its information war against Venezuela, Iran, and Syria. And it has enlisted social media platforms as weapons in its assault on these top regime-change targets. In the first two weeks of January, Twitter suspended dozens of accounts run by real, live people —[…]

The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work

January 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

By Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 22, 2020 “Black people are routinely sent to “facebook jail” if their words anger racist white people.” In its early days the internet seemed to be an undisputed good, a means of communication open to all. It was hoped that these new platforms would level the playing field and give smaller[…]

Russiagate McCarthyism Led to Internet Censorship of the Anti-War and Social Justice Movement

November 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Stansfield Smith, from Alliance for Global Justice, November 30, 2018 The anti-Trump movement is not simply a progressive movement against a rightwing president, but also carries within it a rightwing current. Progressive minded people fight against Trump’s racist actions against Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, his crude sexism, his pro-corporate policies, his rejection of action on global warming, his massive tax[…]

Facebook is Not Your Friend

October 30, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, October 18, 2018 Facebook has become The Great Censor, ready to pull the pages of dissenters that seek to “stir up political debate” in ways that threaten the legitimacy of corporate rule. “Facebook is indispensable to maintaining the global corporate monopoly on truth — as is Google.” Facebook has declared war on[…]

The Bizarre Facebook Path to Corporate Facism

August 9, 2018 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda

by Glen Ford, originally published on Black Agenda Report “The Facebook intervention is a qualitative escalation of the McCarthyite offensive.” Facebook has assumed additional political police powers, disrupting a planned counter-demonstration against white supremacists, set for August 12th in Washington, on the grounds that it was initiated and inspired by “Russians” as part of a Kremlin campaign to “sow dissension”[…]