1/11/24 Alan MacLeod on X’s Ban of Several Large Israel Critics

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Alan MacLeod of Mintpress News joined Scott to talk about how he and several other prominent critics of Israel’s war in Gaza had their X accounts banned last week without notice. The accounts have since been restored, with Elon Musk promising to investigate, but Scott and MacLeod point out that the suppression of voices critical of Washington’s preferred geopolitical narrative is nothing new. Discussed on the show: Alan MacLeod Ken Klippenstein Rob Rousseau True Anon Podcast @Zei_Squrill “Several Large Accounts That Criticized Israel and Musk Banned from X” (Libertarian Institute) Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. Follow him on Twitter @AlanRMacLeod. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Okay, everybody.
0:48.0	Next on the show is Alan McLeod from Mint Press News and well first of all welcome the show and welcome back to the
0:57.4	land of Twitter. How are you? Thank you very much I'm'm good to be back. Yes, for those who don't know I was mysteriously banned along with a load of people a little while ago and then almost as mysteriously reinstated very quickly.
1:13.8	Yeah, and so what was interesting about that
1:16.8	was it was a pretty high profile people.
1:19.8	And it's true that pretty high profile people
1:22.2	have been in the past.
1:24.9	I guess the one that was really surprising me was Ken Klippenstein because he's a good
1:29.6	guy, but he's very like, you know, not offensive offensive some of you guys go really hard. He doesn't go really hard right he does good journalism but he's not like a like sharp edged sort of a commentating, you know, like guy that the bad guys would fear, I wouldn't think.
1:47.8	No offense, Ken, I love you man, I, you know, I think you understand me what I mean, but a of you guys like the the squirrel guy or girl I guess lady I think it is I don't know and you and some others we can imagine what it was that they went after you guys for but we don't know exactly who is they but it seemed like obviously some kind of very coordinated event and I wonder if you're getting any kind of answers about how this could have happened actually and especially like all in the same day and especially when
2:21.0	Elon Musk seemed to not know what was going on and said,
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