{"id":345800,"date":"2018-01-28T19:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-war-on-dissent\/"},"modified":"2018-01-28T19:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:19:34","slug":"the-war-on-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-war-on-dissent\/","title":{"rendered":"The War on Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-99302\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/01\/1044628_550890788302598_1394338691_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"350\"  \/><br \/>Just when you thought the corporatocracy couldn\u2019t possibly get more creepily Orwellian, the Twitter Corporation starts\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/19\/media\/twitter-internet-research-agency-accounts\/index.html\">sending out emails<\/a>\u00a0advising that they \u201chave reason to believe\u201d we have \u201cfollowed, retweeted,\u201d or \u201cliked the content of\u201d an account \u201cconnected to a propaganda effort by a Russia government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency.\u201d While it\u2019s not as dramatic as the Thought Police watching you on your telescreen, or posters reminding you \u201cBig Brother Is Watching,\u201d the effect is more or less the same.<\/p>\n<p>And if that\u2019s not creepily Orwellian enough for you, Facebook has established a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/counterspeech.fb.com\/en\/\">Ministry of Counterspeech<\/a>, manned by \u201ca dedicated counterterrorism team\u201d of \u201cformer intelligence and law-enforcement officials,\u201d to \u201cdisrupt ideologies underlying extremism\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/thought-police-21st-century\/\">see Chris Hedges\u2019 recent essay for details<\/a>). The Google Corporation is systematically\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/26\/technology\/google-search-bias-claims.html\">disappearing<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/nov\/21\/google-de-rank-russia-today-sputnik-combat-misinformation-alphabet-chief-executive-eric-schmidt\">deranking<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/11\/03\/whos-afraid-of-corporate-cointelpro\/\">maliciously misrepresenting<\/a>\u00a0non-corporate news and opinion sources, and the \u201cthought criminals\u201d who contribute to them. Meanwhile, the corporate media continues to pump out Russia paranoia propaganda like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/team-trump-empties-white-house-for-davos-trip-1144213571676\">this Maddow segment on MSNBC<\/a>\u00a0about \u201cthe remarkable number of Russian financiers who\u2019ll be rubbing elbows with the Trump team in Davos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These are just the latest salvos in the corporate establishment\u2019s War on Dissent, an expanded version of the War on Terror, which they\u2019ve been relentlessly waging for over a year now&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/26\/the-war-on-dissent\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you thought the corporatocracy couldn\u2019t possibly get more creepily Orwellian, the Twitter Corporation starts\u00a0sending out emails\u00a0advising that they \u201chave reason to believe\u201d we have \u201cfollowed, retweeted,\u201d or \u201cliked the content of\u201d an account \u201cconnected to a propaganda effort by a Russia government-linked organization known as the Internet Research Agency.\u201d While it\u2019s not as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-345800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}