Investigative journalist sounds off on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' after Twitter, Google take action against Trump, Parler
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Good evening and
welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight,
the crackdown on Americas civil
live is coming.
We told you that yesterday
turns out it didnt take long.
It is here now
and its unprecedented
and it will have consequences.
This will cause extremism.
Actions taken to suppress
extremism will cause it.
Those unintended consequences
we dont know
is very clear what is happening
and what will happen
here is the first news
just days after Donald Trump
called the breaking up of big tech monopolies in order to
big tech monopolies in order to
preserve monopolies, big tech
monopolies
have the president has been
banned from the platform that
was his primary means of
communication.
Of course, wait until the
Democratic Party took power and
they shut it down
theyre in control. Now
Silicon Valley oligarchs are
more powerful than the President
of the United States
and they want you to know it
everywhere. The assault on
speech, celebrated
Glenn Greenwald is an
independent journalist,
cofounder of the intercept.
You are a long standing civil
libertarian
Glenn. Thanks for joining us,
please assess what you are
seeing in the United States.
One thing I think we are
seeing is the initiation of a
new war on terror, which I dont
say lightly.
I say that, because the Biden
Administration, what will be the
Biden administration in about a
week, is saying explicitly that
they want first of all, a new
law to further criminalize
domestic terrorism. Even though
every act that constitutes
domestic terrorism is already
criminalized,
what they want to do is increase
their power to monitor political
groups, to infiltrate them to
criminalize activities that
currently are not criminalized,
nor should they be whether it
be advocacy or speech or other
things.
They are saying they want a new
law similar to the way that the
nine Slash eleven attack and the emotion
surrounding it was instantly
seized upon to institute a whole
serious of new laws that indoor.
Secondly, they are explicitly
saying that they believe that
domestic terrorism, so this
war on terror, is not going to
be directed at foreign, nonstate
actors or terrorist groups, or
foreign countries like China or
IRAN or Russia. Its going to
be directed inward is the great
threat to national security.
We talked about this before
this is what they are likely
going to do, because theyve
been focused for so long media
outlets have come. The
democratic party has come on
Donald Trump and increasing
fear levels about him.
That has been the key to their
profit and power.
Once he is gone, the strategy
has always been clear to
inflate the risk of what they
call white supremacist
terrorism, which increasingly
means nothing more than being a
trump supporter and then
treating people in the
United States who fall into that
category. The way you treat
terrorists purely monitor them,
you surveil them, you restrain
them, you detain them.
This is what they are saying
explicitly and the
Silicon Valley component of this
is particularly menacing
Tucker, because these companies
have greater power than any
corporations in the history of
the world,
not just wealth, but the amount
of data that they have on us
and all the control that the
exercise over our political
discourse,
a tiny handful of tech oligarchs
are more powerful than any
nation state
and they determine what we can
hear what we can speak. What is
true and what is false, with
zero accountability and zero
transparency,
the overwhelmingly donated to
the Democratic Party and so for
the Democratic Party are part
of that coalition and
Jennifer Palmieri, a top level
long term advisor to the
Clintons posted on Twitter. That
the reason that Facebook and
Silicon Valley are now censoring
the enemies of the
democratic partys because they
know the Democrats are now in
control of the key committees
and have to do their bidding in
order to get what they want.
But the reality is, they are the
ones who wield power,
Silicon Valley does come and the
rest of us are subject to their
undemocratic and unaccountable w
you up and sing
this for twenty years, and I was twenty
years ago. You said, laws like
this will be used against
american citizens, and I want to
confess I thought you sounded
paranoid at the time. But you are
right and I want to acknowledge
that you are right and we.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-08.