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As I’ve alluded to on here before after 11 years I’m leaving The Intercept to help launch a new platform, Drop Site News. It’s a bittersweet moment for me since I helped start The Intercept and really I grew up there.

But I’m excited about helping start another new independent news outlet with my old colleagues Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill. We are reader funded on Substack and I hope you will consider becoming a paid supporter so that we can continue to do the reporting that we did at TI for so many years: https://www.dropsitenews.com

Less than a month into its launch Drop Site News is already banned from access in Pakistan. You can still access it via VPN but it’s a signal of how much our reporting has infuriated the military government there.

I’m banned from lots of countries by the way everyone seems to be mad at me but I take that as a sign that my stories hit hard — a bit of a badge of honor. Onwards!

Writer, podcaster, and commentator on foreign affairs and politics. Runs /dropglobalnews

Please support: https://www.dropsitenews.com/

Is that usually due to governments controlling information that’s spread?

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That is a great quote. Well I guess you’re taking this as a signal that you’re saying something that needs to be said 🫡

Something @balajis.eth once said in a podcast that stuck with me is that no pre-internet institution will survive the internet except the CCP which had the foresight to build the Great Firewall as a means of self-preservation.