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Lmao, like you know better than him what is oppression. Look the press rights etc. You are free to think that you are free and consume tho
It’s like Julian Assange is memory-holed already.
For real hey,
Snowden, meanings, Aaron Schwartz (rip)
And then there are those who don’t get whacked or politically persecuted, only cancelled. The people who got Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction wrong are still prominent today, while those who got it right have never worked in the industry again, like Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue.
Like, of course US journalists toe the party line: you get promoted for doing it and you get permabanned like Chris Hedges if you question it.
Same in France,
Investigation journalist or activists jailed or in justice for nothing except emarassing the power and the business.
Cf to start,
Reflet.info, laquadrature.net
Or even the cases of Steven Donziger or the stuff Ralph Nader went through in his heyday.