The ZH link to Hans Mahncke’s breakdown of the Durham report is sadly on the money. Our own Sue Schmidt did a similar piece: https://www.racket.news/p/damn-thats-thin-i-know-it-sucks-the nostr:note1wws2fsl0stfe94c6a46fj5msss3wcq985rv4wnflgfzah45ze9yqhy97s9

New Twitter Files material shows suppression of Covid-related speech in Australia. https://www.racket.news/p/twitter-files-extra-the-covid-censorship

“The McCarthy Reboot”

The Censorship-Industrial Complex is new in scale and expense, but in both language and ambition, it's a perfect repeat of our history's darkest chapters

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-f83?utm_source=direct&r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Naval Special Warfare vet Tom Wyatt examines the life he might have lived as an anti-disinfo contractor in “Counter-Disinformation: The New Snake Oil”

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/counter-disinformation-the-new-snake?utm_source=direct&r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Matt Farwell, who worked with my old Rolling Stone colleague Michael Hastings, traces a hundred years of anti-disinformation efforts in “A Century of Censorship”:

https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/a-century-of-censorship?utm_source=direct&r=5mz1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

After months of work by a team of ten, Racket is posting its taxonomic survey of the Censorship-Industrial Complex. Not paywalled: https://www.racket.news/p/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b

Listen to this (free) article: Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex https://www.racket.news/p/listen-to-this-article-report-on#details

Anyone have any idea what KDT might stand for in the social media context?

Thanks to Kim Iversen for having me on last night, to talk about how a member of congress is threatening me with prison time: https://youtu.be/8qR2AQhPnpE

Always fun to have members of congress threaten you with prison: https://leefang.substack.com/p/house-democrat-threatens-twitter

Again, apologies, and I’ve got lots of free stuff coming.

I have three little boys who soon will be eating 18-wheeler beds of food every day, so I’m trying to work round the clock before my brain gives out

People are right to complain about paywalling, and if there was a way to use micro-payments to open the door, a lot of independent reporters would probably be for it. The Substack system however has advantages in being relatively censor-proof, while also giving people like me some stability — it’s much better to work for a stable of subscribers than a media corporation.

I mean, I’d make it a tiny fee. The only reason this one is paywalled is because I have a lot of free stuff upcoming. In general the paywall system is clunky. For people like me it’s a net plus, but I don’t like that I have to limit how many people read some things, and obviously readers don’t like that either.

“Wikileaks coined the term, ‘Intelligence agency of the people,’” says Stella Assange, Julian’s wife. “Bellingcat went with for the people.”

More: https://www.racket.news/p/the-press-is-now-also-the-police

New article: “The Press is Also the Police” https://www.racket.news/p/the-press-is-now-also-the-police

For years now I’ve been conflicted about Twitter. The experience was mostly not fun at all, but the functionality was still very high for my job. The manipulation has started to outweigh the benefits by a lot I think.

That’s better, thanks!

I think this is the real reason they dropped the hammer so much on the “Pentagon Leaker.” The documents aren’t terribly derogatory — some of them even seem over-shaded to make the U.S. look good — but no one reading them could doubt we’re essentially at war, and committed to escalating.

Hey Tyler…