This piece was reprinted by OpEd News with permission or license. It may not be reproduced in any form without permission or license from the source.
extraordinary platform for dissenting journalism, my show being an example, but now we're
seeing monopolies of big tech that works with government to silence free speech. What is the
future of dissenting journalism in the world when big tech seems to have the power of
censorship and people accept it because it's a quote-unquote, "private company"?
Noam Chomsky
"If people accept it," is the crucial phrase if people accept it to be submissive to private power,
then, of course, they'll take over. But we don't have to be. I mean, Alice mentioned the books
being banned and when books are banned by private power, civil libertarians don't take notice. I
actually had experience with this as well, going back to 1971, which they mentioned, I often
wrote books jointly with my friend Edward Herman.
The first book we published was in 1971, it was a book on counter-revolutionary violence. The
violence used to suppress the popular movements I'm thinking primarily about Vietnam. The
book was published 20,000 copies, pretty small but flourishing publisher, with a conglomerate
and executive of the conglomerate that owned the publisher. Time Warner said they didn't like
the book, ordered the publisher to retract it. When they refused, he put the entire publisher out
of business, destroying all of their books.
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
