May 30, 2020
Matt Taibbi is a straight shooter. He is a reporter with liberal beliefs to be sure, but he does not let his beliefs get in the way of his reporting.
He has trashed Bush, Obama and Trump with equal measure. He was at one time a liberal hero, their new Hunter S Thompson until…
He called BS on the Russia hoax. They turned on him in a vicious manner and accused him of working for Putin and Trump.
He did not back down and while still hitting the Trump admin from time to time, he turned his and has been very successful at exposing liberals as hypocritical frauds.
That in turn has earned him a new following on the right. In short, he tells the truth and he just dropped a hammer on the entire green movement and exposed them as the frauds that they really are.
Writing in his newsletter he ripped the new tech censorship and warned liberals that trying to censor Trump will come back to haunt them.
And so it did. In a stunning report, Taiibi details that Mike Moore has a new film out that is critical of the green movement and goes so far as to call them frauds.
And YouTube removed it after the left complained. The chickens come home to roost but this is not a joking matter – they started censoring the little guy and have slowly moved up the food chain and now they are censoring Mike Moore and President Trump. If they can do it to those guys we don’t stand a chance.
Matt wrote:
“On April 21st, 2020, just before the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, Oscar-winning director/producer Michael Moore released a new movie called Planet of the Humans. Directed by Jeff Gibbs, the film is a searing look at the ostensible failures of the environmentalist movement, to which Moore and Gibbs both belonged.
“Jeff and I were at the first Earth Day celebrations,” Moore laughs. “That’s how old we are.”
Distributed for free on YouTube, the film’s central argument is that the environmentalist movement, fattened by corporate donations, has become seduced by an industrialist delusion.
“The whole idea of the film was to ask a question – after fifty years of the environmentalist movement, how are we doing?” recounts Moore. “It looks like, not very well.”
Moore and Gibbs challenged the idea that both the planet and humankind’s current patterns of industrial production can be saved through the magic bullet of “renewable energy.” The film shows lurid examples of various deceptions, like the oft-used trick of replacing coal plants with new natural gas plants, which are then called “clean” or “green,” or the hideous trend of describing the burning of trees as a “renewable” energy source.
Environmentalists denounced the film as riddled with “lies” and “misinformation,” claiming among other things that Moore used old data to discredit green technology. A campaign to remove the film from circulation immediately took shape.
“Within 24 hours of it going out on YouTube, people got to work on trying to take the film down,” explains Moore. He immediately started hearing about emails denouncing the film that were being circulated to what seemed like “everyone on the left.”
An “action letter” composed by environmentalist Josh Fox was circulated, describing the film as “dangerous, misleading, and destructive” and demanding an “immediate retraction.” Films for Action, an online archive of progressive movies, initially bent to Fox’s demands by taking the film out of its library, only to put it back up a half-day later out of a desire to avoid a “messy debate about censorship.”
An intense campaign of editorials followed, and a roughly month later, YouTube actually removed the film. The platform cited a four-second piece of footage shot by filmmaker Toby Smith that supposedly was a copyright infringement. Moore, who says all his films are “heavily lawyered,” insists the footage was legal under Fair Use laws, which allow the use of portions of copyrighted work without the permission of the owner. (In one of many ironies, Fair Use laws have long been celebrated by progressives as an invaluable tool for journalists and artists).
The significance of the Moore incident is that it shows that a long-developing pattern of deletions and removals is expanding. The early purges were mainly of small/fringe voices on either the far right or far left, or infamously fact-challenged personalities like Alex Jones. The removal of a film by Moore – a heavily-credentialed figure long revered by the liberal mainstream – takes place amid a dramatic acceleration of such speech-suppression incidents, many connected to the coronavirus disaster.”
YouTube took down @MMFlint's documentary about corruption in the environmental movement. It's Michael Moore versus corporate environmentalists/big tech. taibbi.substack.com/p/planet-of-th…
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