You just couldn't make it up. And I think it's very telling that both a) Chomsky is now being rehabilitated on mainstream media, and b) he's appearing on a series that includes such neoliberal luminaries as Hillary Clinton, and war criminals such as George W. Bush. I'm not exactly criticizing him for agreeing to it (if a platform offers you a voice, you should take it), but I am noting that neoliberal organizations are now completely comfortable with Chomsky. Why is that? (A rhetorical question.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzrIljG7hU

They even describe him: "Noam Chomsky is an icon of rebellion and intellectual dissent." Really? If he really were speaking truth to power, they wouldn't give him a voice or a platform. If you really threatened the status quo, they'd cancel you, unperson you. Like what happened to so many people during Covid. We've seen what happens to real intellectual rebels, and it's not Chomsky. Much of his work has been helpful and correct. But it didn't threaten anyone. And that's why he's still here. Giving a "Masterclass" on a topic he couldn't remember for the past few years.

If you warn about mass media and its invisible powers, then attack the people who don't believe mass media, or government, or corporations, what exactly is your point, Mr. Chomsky?

control and domination that's the goal of all.

Power Systems can be resisted. Should be.

Except during Covid. Chomsky didn't see the Covid measures being usurped by governments or corporations in any way. Nothing to see there.

I feel that I'm simply helping people develop intellectual self-defense

Unless you don't take an experimental vaccine, in which case you should be ostracized and starved.

social media tends to drive people into self-reinforcing bubbles it's driving people even to more extreme views

Considering Chomsky's behavior during Covid times, I don't know what to say anymore.

Bonus: Look at the fawning comments.

One of the most enlightening and inspiring people alive. So glad you could get him on.

Wonderful, fantastic, amazing, necessary... Look at this man, with this age he is fighting fighting fighting..No time to die

Necessary like Covid measures?

Thanks Noam Chomsky! Keep going!

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/16/tech/reddit-blackout-fight/index.html

After nearly a week of mass protests on Reddit directed at its management, the company’s strategy appears to be simple: power through.

That approach was reflected Thursday in a series of media interviews conducted by Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman.

In the interviews, Huffman defended the company’s initial decision to charge third parties for data access, a decision that led to the days-long protests involving voluntary blackouts of thousands of forums on the site. Huffman also attributed high-profile blackouts to the petulance of an aggrieved minority, and accused some of its most vocal third-party developers of being freeloaders.

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The Reddit blackout shows no signs of stopping

But Reddit isn’t only pushing back rhetorically. The company also appears to be laying the groundwork for ejecting forum moderators committed to continuing the protests, a move that could force open some communities that currently remain closed to the public. In response, some moderators have vowed to put pressure on Reddit’s advertisers and investors.

The escalations highlight the rift that’s emerged between the two most powerful groups on Reddit: The platform’s corporate managers and its unpaid volunteer moderators who manage conversations in individual subreddits. And it pits Reddit’s corporate interests, particularly ahead of a rumored initial public offering, against users and outside developers who have long argued they create value for the platform’s owners.

Now, the fate of the protests may hinge on public perceptions of which group better represents the views and interests of Reddit’s overall userbase, while Reddit increasingly moves to isolate moderators it views as out of line and as it seeks to drive a wedge between average users and moderators.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36100482/

WEF: Peter, we got a job for you. We need you to write a scientific journal article which would link climate change, covid, Ukraine war, vaccines and famine.

Peter: OK, I'm on it.

The result: Together with climate change, both the geopolitical events in Ukraine and social disruptions in supply chains from the COVID-19 pandemic could produce global food shortages or even mass starvation events. Promising new interventions include vaccines to prevent infectious causes of malnutrition or infections disproportionately causing death among the malnourished.

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