Glenn Greenwald

government and our politicians seem to be to Israel, going there constantly, standing up every week and talking more about Israel than their own constituents of their own states and districts.

people started naturally, you know, really looking for the first time, especially young people.

And as support for Israel unraveled in the U.S.

and then throughout the West, they just became increasingly desperate.

And in general, power factions turned to censorship more and more when they're losing the debate.

They used to have a very, you know,

aggressive and strong lockdown on the ability to dissent on Israel.

Very few people could do it.

Most people were afraid to speak out.

But once you get past that tipping point where it becomes mainstream to speak openly and critically and have these questions about Israel and U.S.

subsidizing it, it's very hard to put that back in the bag.

And they kind of, for the first time, are acting out of panic and desperation.

And that's why the censorship has become so visible, so brazen, so explicit.

Yeah.

But but, you know, to me, and this is why my main cause over the last decade as a journalist, just as a citizen, has been a free and open Internet.

And particularly keeping independent media free and flourishing is that as long as we have decentralized information vectors.

Where, you know, it's not even like 20 years ago where you just have cable networks that are owned by big corporations or 30 years ago where you just had networks owned by massive corporations that were easily controllable and then dependent on the U.S.

government.

It's impossible, essentially, with a free Internet.

to control the flow of information to prevent people from organizing and asking questions of one another and learning from each other instead of from these centralized fonts that are easily controlled by the government.