The “consensus enforcement mechanism” of censorship on social media has not only been an attack on civil liberty but also sapped the public square of a desire to reach the truth, according to journalist Matt Taibbi.
Where there was once a hunger for freedom, there is now a collective apathy over fighting to keep it preserved, Mr. Taibbi said.
“In parallel to this censorship program, I think what they’re doing with things like shadow banning and deny listing is they’re trying to simplify controversies and reduce everybody’s field of view,” Mr. Taibbi said in an interview on EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders.”…
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