Friday, October 12, 2018

RT — New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster

If the establishment media were truly balanced, social media’s purge of alternative news outlets would be a front-page splash. The fact it isn’t proves that those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.

Sadly, RT saw something like this coming. And for that reason, we have developed a new site to promote the free exchange of information and views. The fact it launches on the same weekend that US social media giants Facebook and Twitter clamped down on dissent is merely a coincidence.
New Samizdat is a news aggregator with a difference. The website will attempt to bring you the most important and interesting stories across the English-speaking web, which are either undervalued or ignored by legacy outlets.
Sources will vary, but inquiring minds who challenge groupthink will be favored. However, you’ll see the MSM often featured too, as one of its greatest tricks is to cover vital and radical news but bury it in the mainstream.
New Samizdat will post the most interesting links, across all spectrums, with the intention of stimulating debate and providing access to information. And we hope it can play a small part in fighting modern censorship by giving you a trusted page where the most interesting news and views can be found.
Visit New Samizdat !
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New Samizdat: RT brings you a new censorship buster

4 comments:

Konrad said...

“If the establishment media were truly balanced, social media’s purge of alternative news outlets would be a front-page splash.” ~ RT

Richard Nixon tried to repeal the Fairness Doctrine in 1969 on the grounds that the prohibition of censorship was a violation of free speech. (!) The US Supreme Court disagreed with him.

Eighteen years later (1987) the Reagan administration got it repealed.

Ironically, conservatives now complain that they’re censored by politically-correct media. However some leftists also get censored.

The corporate media outlets don’t care about “left” and “right.” They only care about sensationalism, ratings, and promoting war and neoliberalism.

“Those who shout loudest about “free speech” may be its greatest enemies.” ~ RT

This is a universal constant. For example, the more a male public figure screams about “toxic masculinity” and “women’s rights,” the more he probably has something to hide. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (Democrat) attacked “toxic masculinity” until it was revealed that he had a history of violently battering and sexually abusing women. Schneiderman had to resign on 8 May 2018.

Regarding censorship, those who demanded that Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants censor political content (something the firms didn't actually want to do) are finding that content they themselves support end up being repressed.

Censorship of one side always leads to censorship of all sides.

“Samizdat will attempt to bring you the most important and interesting stories across the English-speaking web, which are either undervalued or ignored by legacy outlets.” ~ RT

Samizdat will decide what are “the most important and interesting stories.” How is this different from Facebook, Twitter, and the corporate media outlets?

“Sources will vary, but inquiring minds who challenge groupthink will be favored.” ~ RT

Only as long as challenges to groupthink are approved by group think. What do you suppose would happen if an item on Samizdat questioned the “holocaust”™?

Anyway I will check out Samizdat as soon as I post this comment.

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On that same RT page is a story titled, Sexbots are coming: Scientists say ‘digisexuals’ inevitable as more people bond with robots

This is welcome news. As women become increasingly militant, men increasingly turn to sexbots, thereby depriving women of their power over men.

Noah Way said...

"The corporate media outlets don’t care about “left” and “right.” They only care about sensationalism, ratings, and promoting war and neoliberalism."

"The media" is half-a-dozen private, for profit corporations. They only care about profit, and they represent interests that are profitable to them.

The same shit has been going on for over 100 years. Read George Seldes.

Ralph Musgrave said...

I've been banned by Twitter!!! And I'm proud of it.

Anyone who hasn't been banned is an insipid w*nker.

In fact I think I'll have some T-shirts made saying "I've been banned by Twitter / Facebook. If you haven't, you're a w*nker."

Konrad said...

That's clever Ralph.
Seriously.
We could make a sign-on name: bannedfromtwitter.
Or a blog titled bannedfromfacebook.com.

Such items would be powerful, because despite there being 335 million Twitter users, and 2.23 billion Facebook users, people still feel singled out and isolated when they are banned.

Suppose someone rented a series of billboards on which he applied the words, "I've been banned by Twitter / Facebook. If you haven't, you're a w*nker."

Or, as an alternative, I deleted my Twitter and Facebook accounts. If you haven't, you're a w*nker."

People who saw the billboards would smile as they realized they were not alone. The tide would quickly turn against Twitter and Facebook.