FreeSpeech and Censorship: Thread

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Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
Nov 21
NEW DOCUMENTARY: "The Censorship Files" How much would you pay to
protect your freedom? by @lwoodhouse & @shellenberger One year ago, we
and other journalists gained access to the Twitter Files. What we
discovered shocked us. Not only were highly partisan and ideological
individuals within Twitter censoring people for holding views with
which they disagreed, they were often doing so on behalf of US
government officials and contractors with the FBI, CIA, and Department
of Homeland Security. And so, one year later, we are happy to announce
a new, full-length documentary film, “The Censorship Files.” You can
see the trailer above. The film, made by Leighton Woodhouse and Jonah
Markowitz, will bring you inside the Twitter Files and the race to the
Supreme Court, which will hear the Missouri v. Biden censorship case
early next year. Today we must ask you a personal question: what price
would you put on your freedom? Many of us tell ourselves that freedom
is priceless: we would sacrifice everything, die even, to protect our
freedoms and keep America a free nation. Even if we weren’t willing to
die or go to prison for our nation, we would make a significant
financial investment to protect it. We are asking you to make a far
more modest payment: less than $9/month, or about half the cost of a
Netflix subscription. A subscription to Public is an investment in our
investigative reporting, our free speech campaigning, and the final
production and distribution of “The Censorship Files,” a film that
will change how Americans think about free speech. We believe $9/month
is a tiny investment to pay to ensure that, in the future, you can
read what you want to read, watch the programs you want to watch, and
voice your opinions. “The Censorship Files” will be a landmark film in
educating younger Americans, who are more censorial than their elders,
about America’s remarkable history of strong free speech protections.
They will learn about the Civil Rights movement, the right of the New
York Times to publish “the Pentagon Papers,” and the right even of
pro-Nazi and pro-terrorism activists to march freely through America’s
streets. “The Censorship Files” will reveal the origins and scope of
the Censorship Industrial Complex, its leaders and architects, and its
victims of censorship, from moms sharing stories about the Covid
vaccine’s side effects on their children to two of the world’s
foremost experts on the Covid response, Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff and
Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya. Finally, we will use “The Censorship
Files” to build a new free speech movement in America, city by city,
campus by campus, from the grassroots up. Because if we can’t persuade
America’s youth to support free speech, then the First Amendment is
just some words on a piece of paper. We can’t save the First Amendment
without you. We can’t even finish “The Censorship Files” without you.
This is not complicated. We need more paid subscribers. We need more
than 10% of our subscribers to contribute thirty cents daily. If we
could get 30% of our free subscribers to support our movement, I
believe that we would have a fighting chance to save our first freedom
and the other pillars of democratic civilization along with it. One
year ago, we didn’t even know we lived in a heavily censored society.
Today, we have ripped back the veil of the Censorship Industrial
Complex and are on the cusp of defunding and dismantling it. Such a
process will take years but won’t take a decade. It may even happen
much more quickly than that, depending on the actions of the Supreme
Court and Congress. What’s certain is that we can’t do it without our
paid subscribers — and we don’t want to do it without our unpaid ones.
We promise that, in the future, you’ll be grateful you funded the
fight for our first freedom.