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Caitlin Johnstone
Personal blog · caitlinjohnstone.substack.compoliticswriting
Caitlin Johnstone writes Caitlin’s Newsletter, a personal blog at caitlinjohnstone.substack.com about politics and writing. Since 2020, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Biden Admin. Kills the “It's a Private Company So It's Not Censorship” Argument”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these Substack posts as sources in threads on big tech censorship, government pressure on social media platforms, and Google data collection. One commenter criticises the author's stance on the war.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Articles, poems, stories and thoughts by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley. Everything published here will always remain free to read.
Most-linked posts?
- Biden Admin. Kills the “It's a Private Company So It's Not Censorship” Argument2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-07-17
- Censorship by Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-25
- Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-14
What Hacker News says?
The government is actively telling social media companies which posts need to be taken down. That makes them state actors. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-administration... Here is a partial list of scientific consensus "deniers" proven right which this sort of censorship will either silence by big tech or due to self-censorship: 1. Ignaz Sem…
Comment linking /p/biden-administration-completely-kills
on “Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content””Submitted Censorship by Algorithm Does Far More Damage Than Conventional Censorship as a story · 55 points
HN discussionThe government is actively telling social media companies which posts need to be taken down. That makes them state actors. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-matt-orfalea https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-administration...
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on “Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content””Submitted Mark Zuckerberg admits censorship at behest of FBI as a story · 52 points
HN discussionWhite House's exact words were "we're flagging problematic posts FOR Facebook that spread disinformation". "FOR" is an important word. https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/biden-administration... On top of this, they have already threatened the companies during the hearings that if they don't take it down, then they will get actioned. Plus Biden even called social media companies murderers. "Congressional Democra…
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on “Right or left, you should be worried about big tech censorship”Submitted Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship as a story · 51 points
HN discussion> Google provides useful products, and in exchange we might be targeted with annoying ads. Big whoop. Until now. Enter a cage willingly, with barely any complaint, for minor convenience, then cry when you're taken to the slaughterhouse. It's sad that despite all the warnings, people are so myopic and apathetic that it takes something this big and obvious to make them react. And despite this, they remain willfully bl…
Comment linking /p/censorship-by-algorithm-does-far
on “Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone”Submitted The sociopaths are cocksure while those with empathy are full of doubt as a story · 25 points
HN discussionNot the OP, but it has recently come to light what lots of people had already suspected, i.e. that Bellingcat is laundering information provided to them by various Western intelligence companies. From here [1]: > Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information For Western Intelligence > "Just as Bellingcat get a steady stream of intel from Western agencies, I suspect the attacks on you and others are fed by Russian…
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on “Watchdog uses open-source research to investigate Sri Lanka’s ongoing crisis”Submitted The Assange Persecution Is Western Savagery at Its Most Transparent as a story · 23 points
HN discussionYou might think Johnstone's assertions are wrong, but you too are lying when you say they are unsupported; in the sentence you are referring to, she linked to her own previous article which explains the history https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/experts-warned-for-y... as well as some guy named "Aaron I Killed" on Substack https://mate.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-sponsored-by-... and, more credibly, a FAI…
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on “Defending Freedom and Democracy Sure Requires an Awful Lot of Censorship”Submitted Killing Him: Assange's Stroke Reveals the Western Version of the Saudi Bone Saw as a story · 17 points
HN discussionCaitlin Johnstone is a lefty shilling for Russia. Chomsky blames NATO expansionism for the war. I see lots of such posts by my lefty friends with nary a mention of Russian culpability. https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/its-not-okay-for-gro... https://www.afr.com/world/europe/chomsky-we-re-approaching-t...
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on “International Security and Estonia 2023”Submitted We Survived the Last Nuclear Standoff Through Compromise and De-Escalation as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath of Indie Media Accounts as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Rulers Are Not Rational Creatures: Notes from the Edge of Narrative Matrix as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Biden Admin. Kills the “It's a Private Company So It's Not Censorship” Argument as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Assange Case Is the US Defending Its Right to Lie as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Unspoken Premise of Modern Capitalism: Greedy Tech Oligarchs Will Save Us as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Defeat Putin as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Authoritarianism Keeps Surging in Western “Free Democracies” as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Weird, Stupid Dystopia as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silicon Valley Should Not Restrict Public Discourse About Covid Measures as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guardian Could Help Assange by Retracting All the Lies It Published About Him as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information for Western Intelligence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mass Media Blackouts on Inconvenient News Stories as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Pendulum of Internet Censorship Swings Leftward Again as a story · 2 points
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