Over a CNN Suspension After Years of Promoting the Outright Silencing of Outlets and Individuals
As Bonchie covered earlier, they staged a gripe session about the suspension, and Oliver Darcy had the audacity to express concern and deliver dramatics about what it could all mean as a threat to the integrity of our journalism complex. To use some of the hyperbole the press loves to employ, this is a case of “weaponized” delusion, given that Darcy has a lengthy history of promoting the silencing, censoring, and elimination of particular voices and outlets.
Back when Alex Jones at InfoWars was angering its share of figures on the left and in the press, Darcy was part of the cabal of journalists looking to have the site removed from YouTube. He began by targeting affiliated individuals from the site to be banished from “proper” news sites. When the video site followed through and deplatformed InfoWars, that was not enough for Darcy. He was seemingly bothered that Jones still had outlets to push his broadcast and worked to get Twitter to remove the account. He also went to Facebook over the same concerns.
While Darcy was becoming energized with his new quest to silence targets on the right, he faced the reality that he was a journalist – subsisting on the First Amendment by trade – seeking to restrict the free expression of others. In one report from that period, he was attempting to justify the desire to muzzle Jones and his outlet, and you can see Ollie straining to address the complaints. “CNN has not called for anyone to ban Jones or InfoWars from speaking, but has been reporting on social platforms’ stance towards InfoWars, especially as those platforms claim to be combatting misinformation.” Why does this Oliver Darcy standard not get applied to Thursday’s suspensions? Nobody is keeping Donie O’Sullivan, CNN’s suspended reporter, from speaking, Twitter merely took a stance toward him, correct?
As Bonchie covered earlier, they staged a gripe session about the suspension, and Oliver Darcy had the audacity to express concern and deliver dramatics about what it could all mean as a threat to the integrity of our journalism complex. To use some of the hyperbole the press loves to employ, this is a case of “weaponized” delusion, given that Darcy has a lengthy history of promoting the silencing, censoring, and elimination of particular voices and outlets.
Back when Alex Jones at InfoWars was angering its share of figures on the left and in the press, Darcy was part of the cabal of journalists looking to have the site removed from YouTube. He began by targeting affiliated individuals from the site to be banished from “proper” news sites. When the video site followed through and deplatformed InfoWars, that was not enough for Darcy. He was seemingly bothered that Jones still had outlets to push his broadcast and worked to get Twitter to remove the account. He also went to Facebook over the same concerns.
While Darcy was becoming energized with his new quest to silence targets on the right, he faced the reality that he was a journalist – subsisting on the First Amendment by trade – seeking to restrict the free expression of others. In one report from that period, he was attempting to justify the desire to muzzle Jones and his outlet, and you can see Ollie straining to address the complaints. “CNN has not called for anyone to ban Jones or InfoWars from speaking, but has been reporting on social platforms’ stance towards InfoWars, especially as those platforms claim to be combatting misinformation.” Why does this Oliver Darcy standard not get applied to Thursday’s suspensions? Nobody is keeping Donie O’Sullivan, CNN’s suspended reporter, from speaking, Twitter merely took a stance toward him, correct?
