4/5/23 Matt Taibbi on the Danger of Digital Censorship

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Scott was joined by Matt Taibbi this week on Antiwar Radio. They discuss some of Taibbi’s recent reporting on the government-NGO-corporate media joint effort to flag and suppress certain news and opinions that they deem to be disinformation. They take a step back and look at the broader context behind this story and discuss some evidence that the fight against this new digital censorship regime can work. Discussed on the show: “People Can Win” (Racket News) Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi is a journalist, author and political commentator. Subscribe to his Substack publication: Racket News and follow him on Twitter @mtaibbi. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; 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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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, April 6th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:07.0	This is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Horton.
0:25.0	I'm the editorial director of anti-war.com,
0:28.0	and I'm the editor of the book Hotter Than the Sun.
0:31.0	Time to abolish nuclear weapons. You find my full interview archive, almost 6,000
0:36.4	of them now going back to almost 20 years ago, April 12, 2003 at Scott Horton.org and at YouTube.com
0:45.8	slash Scott Horton's show.
0:48.4	All right to you guys, on the line I've got the great Matt
0:50.9	Tybee from racket news, it's called now that's racket dot news
0:55.7	welcome back to this show Matt how you doing sir I'm good Scott how are you doing
0:59.2	very good happy to have you on the show here and man you keep breaking stories you've got such
1:03.8	great work going on with these Twitter files here and I know the story has really
1:07.2	evolved lately but I want to start off with the good news you've got this great piece
1:11.6	called People Can Win about how, you know, it seems
1:16.4	like the war party, they got all the money, they're organized, they have their way and
1:20.9	who are we the disorganized masses is to try to object and yet you show here that actually
1:26.1	is possible when we get our act together huh? Yeah I think it also shows you know the subject of this
1:32.0	pieces that the Department of Homeland
1:34.5	Security after trying to introduce a what they called a disinformation
1:39.9	governance board last year you remember that was run by that crazy Nina Jankowitz
1:45.3	woman who had the Mary Poppins song that she sang on Twitter. They had to shut that down within three weeks
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