Alex Jones was an Easy Censorship Precedent – Predictably Other Dissent is Following
Our democracy is traveling down a slippery slope of censorship by private internet portals and the mainstream news media is saying nothing.
Our democracy is traveling down a slippery slope of censorship by private internet portals and the mainstream news media is saying nothing.
“It seems like the censorship power many people on the left want Silicon Valley executives to unilaterally exercise might end up being wielded against the left. One good way to know that would happen is that is already is happening.”
For the second time this year, Facebook has suspended teleSUR English's page, claiming the left-leaning Latin American news network violated the social media platform's terms of service without any further explanation—a move that provoked outrage and concern among journalists, free speech advocates, and Big Tech critics. In a short
Four years in, teleSUR English is, by any critical measure, an abysmal failure, and represents nothing less than a betrayal of the Bolivarian revolution.
By Jon Jeter
QUITO, ECUADOR (Special Report) -- Rita Anaya¹ was a 25-year-old graduate student living in southern California when Venezuelan activists invited her to travel to their homeland for the first time in 2007. Her initial response, she freely acknowledges now, was one of ambivalence, but when you’re the daughter of a Chicano farmworker
Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”