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Full Video: Is Censorship Indifferent to the Left? (Patreon)

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2023-03-06 19:04:16
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Document Review (w/ Matt Taibbi) - FULL VIDEO

This week, Briahna interviewed Matt Taibbi about a narrow concern she's had with the Twitter files archive: Despite the obvious value that Matt and other twitter files reporters have created by exposing links between the intelligence agencies and online censorship, is it fair to characterize Twitter's bias as against the right and indifferent to the left given how little we know about which documents have been turned over by Elon Musk and why? Unlike Musk, most whistleblowers are not the heads of the organizations they're informing on. Does Musk's investment in and control over Twitter demand more journalistic scrutiny? Is it possible to characterize the files reviewed so far without making broader claims about about the total archive that, at this point, can't be substantiated? Has there been sufficient inquiry into bias against the left, and has their been sufficient disclosure about the limitations Musk has put on the journalists who've been given access to the archive? It's a difficult and nuanced discussion. Let's debrief tonight on Callin.

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Anonymous

I can imagine that this is one of the (if not the) most difficult interviews Brie has done, and it has done nothing but increase my respect for her principled and passionate commitment to the truth, both as it relates to the facts of this matter AND the values of freedom and equality for all.

Anonymous

More worrisome is Briahna's take on Williamson on Rising. I see the pics of Bri and Krystal and gather you are friends. How are you going to have a conversation with Kshama Sawant and very clearly understand the necessity of not supporting someone like Williamson because it takes from the base of poor people who are desperate to have change now? Like, please watch the old Marianne Williamson Majority Report clip when Michael Brooks was clowning David Rubin. Even back then Marianne was shilling for hostilities against China. She talks about pushing peace and love but she's a fake! She has consistently had bad hot takes and been fooled or not fooled into supporting staying in Afghanistan for feminist purposes (bs). Supports BDS and murder of kids and Dr's in Palestine because "Israel has a right to defend itself" and "we don't want to hurt the good Israelis" when it comes to bds. She supports the war in Ukraine, she supports all sorts of violence. I'm about solidarity, I myself have little money. If you are just going to be part of sheep dogging people into the left along with Krystal, I don't see that we are in solidarity or have much in common anymore. I thought you were one of us!

Anonymous

Unfortunately, he will be remembered for this crap. Also, what's up with his tone?

Anonymous

The problem here seems to be that Matt and a whole lot of patron supporters (which I’m surprised to see) seem to believe we have a legit government with a right and a left and they are not all working together to protect each other. Brie wants to know why it’s so focused on victimizing the “right wing” when the focus should be on exposing the ESTABLISHMENT

Adam Gregus
>>103644099

If she's fake, that is the worst that can happen by taking a chance on her. But at least it will push the topics she speaks about into the center of the political discourse. With Biden, or even worse, Harris, you know right now what you are getting, and it ain't good. I don't think we even need to discuss the Republican alternative.

patron68

Sure, lets use my time with Taibbi to argue about this minute point FOR AN HOUR because no one else has been so self obsessed to do so yet. Waste of time and money. Get over yourself Bri.

Anonymous

TX This is so disappointing. Brihana, why take up this entire session on your point???????????? Matt needs our support right now especially and he is an accomplished reporter for YEARS!!! This was a compltely bad look on Brihana - really looks bad.

Anonymous
>>103644099

What happens is you divert attention and important resources to a grifter who is both less popular and resilient than Sanders was, who will ultimately just capitulate to Brandon or whoever else the establishment puts forth. What we can do right now is put effort into a new party. If we get enough votes we establish a party or build onto the green party and start building it. By not building it now we just dig a deeper whole next time and put to sleep any sort of revolutionary movement and distance yourselves from the actual working poor. I'm not rich but I at least have health insurance.. You are picking up rich out of touch Marianne and spitting in our faces.

Anonymous

Great job, Brie. I enjoyed the conversation immensely. Matt, great job too. That conversation could have gone to shit but I learned a lot about the personal difficulties you face and was glad to see the side of the picture that Brie brought out.

Anonymous

Brie, this is a fantastic interrogation of the most significant limitation in the Twitter files reporting. While it is newsworthy that the government was/is supporting a censorship platform, the admitted focus of Taibbi's reporting, failing to openly acknowledge the limitation of the sources you've used and the origin from where they came, ultimately undermines public perception of its reliability, especially in the case of a source as pernicious and self-serving as Elon Musk. It is astonishing that Taibbi is not willing to temper his reporting with this crucial caveat, even when you so clearly and earnestly pointed it out to him. I'm writing this after he's testified before Congress and your point was clearly driven home during his questioning. His answers were just as unsatisfactory as they were here. The result? The Twitter files will now never be viewed without a partisan lens by the general public. On a separate, but related point, there is a broader problem with reporters like Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, two heavy weights of journalistic integrity, softening their interrogation of very serious state sponsorsed free speech censorship and privacy invasion when it comes to issues they dismissively dub as "culture war" issues (i.e., abortion and trans rights), because they view the "security state's" censorship as more pervasive and having a greater effect on people's individual lives. How you can make this claim in the face of ordinary women and trans folks literally losing their body autonomy in half the country borders on the absurd. It's difficult to watch two journalists of such immense integrity and intelligence seemingly abdicate their own principles and simply shrug their shoulders when it comes to the very real and obnoxious assault on civil liberties that ordinary people are facing every day by the people they have chosen to align themselves with. At least acknowledge their hypocrisy and malicious assault on freedom.

Ellen Ellsberg Edge
>>103644099

No one is suggesting that you not build a third-party. This is a strawman argument. Bree has repeatedly said that all options are on the table, and she respects them all. Do

Anonymous

After 30 min it just felt like pedantic nit picking. Agree to disagree and get to the big picture which is a global censorship program run by the very elites that are pushing us towards global extinction

Anonymous

I have to say I'm really disappointed in this episdode. I'm a big fan of this podcast, but the inability to move past how the information retrieved might not be complete (Taibbi has admitted this since the beginning) was literally anxiety-producing the longer the interview went on. I almost couldn't finish watching this, and it ruined my day because I can't stop thinking about it...there's just something not right with how this went down. I don't understand why the focus for 45+ minutes was on one single topic, and at the end of the day, what did this hour and 20 minute interview do for us? What did we learn? I think the line of questioning could have been a lot better. Matt and Briahna are just about my top two favorite content producers and I was super excited to watch this, but it was actually extremely distressing and unpleasant, and I'm just left here thinking I wish you would have gone in a different direction with the interview. I don't think the questions you asked were completely unwarranted, but once you get the answers the first or even second time, why wasn't a different thread pursued? I wish you gave this much pushback to someone like Ryan Grim, but why such a focus on tearing down Matt Taibbi's work...to what end? I'm just so bothered by this, it's hard to understand why the round-a-bout went on so long. Judging by the Callin episode (which I only downloaded specifically to see if I was the only one rubbed the wrong way), critiques resulted in a doubling down that you were right to give him such a hard time, but I strongly disagree. This was a painful episode, and for your interest in building bridges and networking to produce a better future for the left, this seriously leaves something to be desired.