"Several attendees reported that their personal emails to friends were getting blocked, based on their political content."
At a recent gathering of conservative academics and intellectuals, the Philadelphia Society, I heard from multiple people some deeply disturbing news. The censorship of electronic media has gone beyond social media platforms. Several attendees reported that their personal emails to friends were getting blocked, based on their political content. It sounded crazy to me. I couldn’t imagine how any company could justify that.
It doesn’t sound crazy anymore. Google’s Gmail tried to prevent this Stream story you’re reading right now from ever existing.
Was it the FBI? The NBA? Or Just Straight-Up Red China?
I was planning to interview Stream contributor Jason Jones about a recent piece of human rights trolling he engaged in, with exiled Uyghur Prime Minister Salih Hudayar. So I emailed them both the questions. But Jason’s answers didn’t come back to me. So I phoned him. He reported that his email server had been rejecting all his messages on certain subjects, and refusing to send out the photos appearing with this column.
Was it just a bug? No, it was a feature, his service informed him:
What Was Google So Scared Of?
Doesn’t that act of blatant censorship of legal, peaceful free speech make you wonder what Google was trying to silence? It’s the interview below:
