The 3 journalistic units most devoted to demanding online censorship are CNN's media reporters, NBC's "disinformation team," and NYT's tech reporters.
Here's the latter laying the groundwork for making encrypted apps Signal & Telegram the next targets:https://t.co/aUnmWTTjf9 pic.twitter.com/32i2Zp1HRV
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 15, 2021
When the internet and encryption proliferated in the 1990s, the Clinton Admin seized on the Oklahoma City bombing to demand back-door access to all encryption. Bush & Obama used 9/11 to radically expand internet surveillance.
Now it's CNN/NBC/NYT journalists who take the lead.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 15, 2021
Three events in the last 3 months have been major attacks on a free internet: FB & Twitter uniting to censor NY Post pre-election reporting on the Bidens (a shocking breach); the removal of POTUS from the internet; the monopolistic destruction of Parler. A huge escalation.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 15, 2021