Thomas Clarke
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

This may actually be the stupidest thing a Left-Winger has ever written on Medium.

Venezuela: Press freedoms restricted, nationalised media given extra benefits

Cuba: Press freedoms non-existent, media tightly controlled by the Cuban government led by the Communist Party of Cuba

Soviet Russia: Set up its own media (Pravda/Russia Today), actively assassinated journalists critical of it

Communist China: Baidu. Nuff said.

As a left-wing centrist, I would say the fact you haven’t heard of left-wing media takeovers is because you have completely ignored every serious left-wing government since about 1916.

Thomas Clarke

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Brexit Agnostic, but anti-Shambles. And #BrexitMeansUtterShambles

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