{"id":4943,"date":"2020-12-12T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T00:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/12\/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong-and-will-backfire-matt-taibbi\/"},"modified":"2020-12-12T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T00:05:10","slug":"the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong-and-will-backfire-matt-taibbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/12\/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong-and-will-backfire-matt-taibbi\/","title":{"rendered":"The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire – Matt Taibbi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think Taibbi is exactly right here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no such thing as a technocratic approach to truth. There are official truths, but those are political rather than scientific determinations, and therefore almost always wrong on some level. The people who created the American free press understood this, even knowing the tendency of newspapers to be idiotic and full of lies. They weighed that against the larger potential evil of a despotic government that relies upon what Thomas Jefferson called a \u201cstanding army of newswriters\u201d ready to print whatever ministers want, \u201cwithout any regard for truth.\u201d

We allow freedom of religion not because we want people believing in silly religions, but because it\u2019s the only defense against someone establishing one officially mandated silly religion. With the press, we put up with gossip and errors and lies not because we think those things are socially beneficial, but because we don\u2019t want an aristocratic political establishment having a monopoly on those abuses. By allowing some conspiracy theories but not others, that\u2019s exactly the system we\u2019re building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think Taibbi is exactly right here. There\u2019s no such thing as a technocratic approach to truth. There are official truths, but those are political rather than scientific determinations, and therefore almost always wrong on some level. The people who created the American free press understood this, even knowing the tendency of newspapers to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1hJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}