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Glenn Greenwald dismantles the double standard at the heart of global free speech debates—rejecting censorship abroad while exposing how fear, foreign interference, and “national security” are used everywhere to justify silencing dissent.
Glenn Greenwald doesn’t take the easy route on free speech—and that’s exactly the point.
Answering the question “How Should Other Countries Respond to FOREIGN INTERFERENCE by the CIA, Mossad?”
In this moment when censorship is increasingly justified in the name of “national security,” “disinformation,” or geopolitical rivalry, Greenwald cuts through the convenient narratives used by governments across the globe. In this exchange, he refuses to excuse repression in countries like Iran or China—while also exposing the hypocrisy of Western governments that invoke the same justifications when it suits them.
What emerges is a deeper, more uncomfortable truth: free speech is most vulnerable not in moments of stability, but in moments of fear—when states, under real or perceived threat, begin to treat dissent as danger and information as a weapon. From CIA-backed destabilization campaigns to post-9/11 crackdowns in the United States, Greenwald traces a consistent pattern—one where civil liberties are always the first casualty of power under pressure.
This is not a defense of authoritarianism. It’s a warning about how easily any government—East or West—can slide into it.
And more than that, it’s a challenge: If free speech only exists when it’s convenient, does it exist at all?
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