Chris Hedges: CENSORED!

Well it happened:  Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges' program "On Contact" was wiped from Youtube with no notice or reason given.  While the program was hosted by Russian network RT, it contained no pro-Russia message or propaganda whatsoever.  Guests on the show included Cornel West, Noam Chomsky & Richard Wolff.  It ran for 6 years & won Chris an Emmy nomination for 'Outstanding Information Talk Show Host' in 2017.  

And Youtube inexplicably memoryholed it, presumably because of the Russia/Ukraine conflict.  

While most everyone on the Left was on board when Big Tech censored dangerous kooks like Alex Jones and Donald Trump, a few of us could see where this was going.  When you give monopolies the power to silence dissent you end up with situations like this or, on the more extreme end, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden's dire situations.  Hopefully everyone agrees that an overseas war is no excuse for broad, blatant censorship at home--especially when the information being censored has NOTHING to do with said conflict.  This is about squashing a lone voice of reason in the matter of our 2-party sham of a "democracy".  A man who conscientiously declined to vote for either Biden or Trump in 2020 and was vocal about his reasons for doing so.  Again, whether you agree with that particular point of view or not, hopefully you see that it's incredibly dangerous to censor those who stand up for their right to call out the American empire & exercise their right to vote (or not vote) in a way that aligns with their values.  

This isn't about "private companies choosing to do what they want on their sites" anymore.  Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, TikTok & Instagram are monopolies controlling information that influences politics & world events.  It's high time they're regulated as such.  

Until that happens, go support Chris Hedges on Substack... one of the last free corners of the internet.