I applaud

for being one of the few journalists who has maintained his integrity amidst continuous pressures to assimilate, capitulate, and kowtow; held fast to classical liberal principles like freedom of speech and thought; and stood up for the maliciously maligned

Matt Taibbi

, Julian Assange, and others who have dared to challenge the hegemony of the State and thus fall victim to the Corporate-Government-Big Tech smear juggernaut (margaretannaalice.subst…).