Key detail in this @NYMag story on the pro-censorship movement inside NYT by its own employees: NYT tech reporters were angry that the anti-censorship posture of NYT editors would impede their campaign to pressure Silicon Valley to censor more robustly:

https://t.co/EGbfEVuTSZ

The role that mainstream **journalists** have played, of all people, in taking the lead to demand that Silicon Valley oligarchs more aggressively control and censor the internet -- the greatest threat to a free and open internet after mass surveillance -- cannot be overstated.

Just ponder the warped mentality of someone who chooses journalism as a career, then devotes themselves to trying to silence the ability of others to be heard by converting themselves into petulant tattletales who demand that Facebook, Twitter & Google censor dissenting voices.

This is absolutely the key fact to understand about media trends over the last 4 years: most corporate & "independent" outlets explicitly aligned themselves with one political faction -- out of both conviction and profit -- and it contaminated everything, principally the "news."

The stat that tells it all: NYT is now every bit as partisan and ideologically insular as Fox and MSNBC, talking only to hard-core Democrats, with CNN and NPR very close behind, leaving these institutions financially dependent on never reporting things that anger their audience:

We are living a most devious world with so called experts & the all media who are clearly out in force using persuasion & psychology to try & get the publuc with this Dystopian Technoracy Agenda!

The harder the times the less most people think because they are too busy surviving to worry about the in's & out's of the eugenic Dystopia thats coming.

I remember years ago when this front organisation for the 20 Big Banking families called the United Nations, put out info about how the gap between rich & poor was growing but it also meant the middle where the chasm was the middle class was disappearing.

It was always the idea to erradicate the middle class, because the ststem you believe or think it is, is a vastly different system to what it really is.

You only have to look at the characters who own the ststem to see the system that gives you a few rights for you to live in. Its not untill you come up against the brickwalls they put up that they tell you that you don't have any rights at all.