Cenk Uygur
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Trump Going After WikiLeaks: How Free Speech Dies
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April 25, 2017
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5:29Now PlayingTrump is violating the First Amendment by going after Wikileaks. Is the media going to stay silent? Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"What made Pompeo’s overt threats of repression so palatable to many was that they were not directed at CNN, the New York Times or other beloved-in-D.C. outlets, but rather at WikiLeaks, more marginalized publishers of information, and various leakers and whistleblowers, including Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
Trump’s CIA Director stood up in public and explicitly threatened to target free speech rights and press freedoms, and it was almost impossible to find even a single U.S. mainstream journalist expressing objections or alarm, because the targets Pompeo chose in this instance are ones they dislike – much the way that many are willing to overlook or even sanction free speech repression if the targeted ideas or speakers are sufficiently unpopular.”*
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