'As things decay in the United States, they will be less and less tolerant of critics'
Journalist Chris Hedges on the US' purge of dissident analyses
“It just vanished.”
Recently journalists like Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Chris Hedges found years of their broadcast work disappeared from YouTube as the tech giant deleted and banned content from Russia Today, a government-funded outlet in the vein of the United States’ PBS or Britain’s BBC.
Wang Wenwen of The Global Times sat down with Hedges to discuss this censorship purge and its place within broader trends. “Critics such as myself have been pushed very far to the margins, especially if you are as critical as I am of the Democratic Party,” Hedges said.
“I'm a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. Those two things are enough to get you pushed aside.”
Watch the full video conversation between Wenwen and Hedges, below, and read the Q&A, here.