Censorship

Tuesday

October 8, 2019

The NBA tosses an alley-oop for China’s censors

The co-creators of South Park have once again demonstrated why the cartoon remains, after 23 seasons, remarkably astute at delivering shrewd political commentary. Its 299th episode, ‘Band in China’, parodies China’s extreme censorship, restricted internet, and the capitulation of the American entertainment industry to cater to the political interests of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), which in an ironic case of life imitating art, got the show banned in China and virtually scrubbed from its firewalled internet.

Saturday

May 4, 2019

Curt Mills

Is war with Silicon Valley a Trump 2020 strategy?

The world, or at least Twitter, awoke Saturday morning to an extraordinary series of retweets from the site’s most infamous user, @realdonaldtrump. Among those he retweeted: Paul Joseph Watson, the controversial Alex Jones adjacent; Lauren Southern, the right-wing internet celebrity and filmmaker, and for good measure, an account called ‘Deep State Exposed’ which seems most intent on exposing Islam’s quest for global dominion. https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1124097191952441349 ‘Lmao [laugh my ass off],’ said Southern, in a missive, again, retweeted by the president of the United States.