That document is one of the most important things written during the Global War on Terror and it’s a primary source. It gives insight into his mindset, what made him angry, why he did this. Yet the document didn’t have a significant impact on the course of events, it has minimal propaganda value.
It’s a very important document to read because the lessons of the Global War of Terror have been forgotten in the Gaza strip.
Alternatively, we can recognize the blood soaked arena that is the intersection between capital, government, and political interest, letting us empathize with the team(s) of the short form video equivalent to Twitter not wanting the responsibility of distributing UGC insight into the mind behind 9/11 while running a business already under scrutiny.
The minimal propaganda value of Osama bin Laden on Israel-Palestine can always be read courtesy of the USG: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ubl2016/english/To%20the...
Maybe advertisers are the solution.. they won’t want to be associated with disinformation.
Are regular people not allowed to read or share content created by anyone the US government doesn’t like? Are people not allowed to form their own opinions?
What a joke. The “free” democratic west where communication is limited by a handful of large corporate interests and a murderous government that pressures them to censor content they don’t like.
TikTok may be owned by a Chinese company but there is no doubt in my mind they are being pressured by US authorities to control what is disseminated on their platform. I don’t think congress just forgot about wanting to ban TikTok, I think it’s likely they were able to rein in control of the platform.
What Osama Bin Laden did in 2001 isn’t justifiable but neither is decades of US interventionist foreign policy that has left millions of innocent people dead or living in poverty and continues to the present day.
Aside, I have a pet theory involving how the game Battlefield 4 (2013) was banned in China. The plot does not depict China as some inherently Anti-Freedom Giant Evil Empire, but I think that--in the eyes of Chinese censors--it did something even worse: It suggested that there were cracks in the empire, that it was even possible for a rogue Chinese admiral to (in the then-future year 2020) stage a credible coup against the Chinese establishment.
Contrariwise his book later that decade Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media seems to be pretty much bang on the money outlining propaganda as an emergent behaviour that doesn't require an excess of particular directed pressure to come about.
