Julian Assange On 'Digital McCarthyism' - Interview w/ Cenk Uygur
December 23, 2010
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JULIAN ASSANGE: to split us off from the support of the press in the United States, the support of journalists.
I have a message to them. They're going to be next. And we're seeing these statements that "The New York Times" is -- is, you know, is now also being looked at in terms of whether it has engaged in what they call a conspiracy to con -- commit espionage.
So us journalists and publishers and writers, we all have to stick together to resist this sort of reinterpretation of the First Amendment,
And that's what we've seen over the last two or so weeks -- the gradual organization of the silent majority to resist a new type of tyranny, a new type of privatized censorship, a new type of digital McCarthyism that is being pushed from Washington.
People don't like it.
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