{"id":16817,"date":"2022-04-02T07:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T05:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2022-04-02T11:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T09:08:53","slug":"chris-hedges-talks-with-amy-goodman-about-youtube-deleting-his-rt-show-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=16817","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges talks with Amy Goodman about YouTube deleting his RT show archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-16817-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" poster=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chris-Hedges-talks-with-Amy-Goodman-about-youtube-deleting-his-RT-show-archive-02.04.2022.png\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chris-Hedges-Responds-to-YouTube-Deleting-His-6-Year-Archive-of-RT-America-Shows.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chris-Hedges-Responds-to-YouTube-Deleting-His-6-Year-Archive-of-RT-America-Shows.mp4\">https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Chris-Hedges-Responds-to-YouTube-Deleting-His-6-Year-Archive-of-RT-America-Shows.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrishedges.substack.com\/p\/on-being-disappeared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hedges on Substack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was on RT for the same reason the dissident Vaclav Havel, who I knew, was on <span style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Voice of America<\/span> during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It was that or not be heard. Havel had no more love for the policies of Washington than I have for those of Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Are we a more informed and better society because of this censorship? Is this a world we want to inhabit where those who know everything about us and about whom we know nothing can instantly erase us?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>Democrats in the U.S. Congress have held hearings with the CEOs of social media companies pressuring them to do\u00a0<em>more<\/em>\u00a0to censor content. Banish the troglodytes. Then we will have social cohesion. Then life will go back to normal. Fake news. Harm reduction model. Information pollution. Information disorder. They have all sorts of Orwellian phrases to justify censorship.\u00a0 Meanwhile, they peddle their own fantasy that Russia was responsible for the election of Donald Trump. It is a stunning inability to be remotely self-reflective or self-critical, and it is ominous as we move deeper and deeper into a state of political and social dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9\u00a0\u03a9<\/p>\n<p>This censorship is one step removed from Joseph Stalin\u2019s airbrushing of nonpersons such as Leon Trotsky out of official photographs. It is a destruction of our collective memory. It removes the efforts to examine our reality in ways the ruling class does not appreciate. The goal is to foster historical amnesia. If we don\u2019t know what happened in the past, we cannot make sense of the present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen,\u201d Hannah Arendt warned. \u201cWhat makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie\u2014a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days\u2014but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedges on Substack: I was on RT for the same reason the dissident Vaclav Havel, who I knew, was on Voice of America during the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. It was that or not be heard. Havel had no more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=16817\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}