by Phil Butler, …with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
[ Editor’s Note: Phil Butler is coming at the attack on internet freedoms from a different angle than VT, but our roads intersect with Google and the tech giants. Still the most “hush hush” aspect to all this is the perversion of intelligence agencies, long active in the fake news business including social media. Some even say they invented it.
This current talk of reining in Google and Facebook to “protect the consumer” and “real news” outlets is funny if it weren’t so sad. Nothing admits the Intel agencies’ crosshairs on dominating social media and independent news as the new push to have Russian media be listed as foreign agents. If this is done,…