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X’s New Feature Reveals Why Trust & Safety Work Was Never About The ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coord…
Nov 24, 2025, 5:24 PM
Bipartisan Senators Want To Honor Charlie Kirk By Making It Easier To Censor The Internet
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Republican Senator John Curtis want to gut Section 230 to combat “political radicalization”—in honor of Charlie Kirk, whose entire career was built on political radicalization. Kirk styled himself as a “free speech warrior” b…
Nov 18, 2025, 5:27 PM
Trump, Brendan Carr Threaten To Censor Some More Comedians For The Crime Of Comedy
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Donald Trump and his earlobe nibbler (FCC boss Brendan Carr) are threatening to try and censor some more comedians after their efforts to cancel Jimmy Kimmel went so well (read: not well at all). Over at the right wing white propaganda website formerly known …
Nov 18, 2025, 1:30 PM
Sinclair Broadcasting Posts Huge Quarterly Loss After Jimmy Kimmel Censorship
Karl Bode, Techdirt
You might recall that right wing propaganda broadcaster Sinclair Broadcasting recently tripped over its own ass after working with the Trump administration to try and censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the President. The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC/AB…
Nov 13, 2025, 1:28 PM
Republicans Claimed Biden Censored YouTube. 20 Employees Seem to Say Otherwise
Makena Kelly, Wired
Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.
Oct 31, 2025, 3:55 PM
Meta repents again to Republicans in hearing over moderation, while Google stands its ground
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, in…
Oct 29, 2025, 10:06 PM
Hey Zuck, Remember When You Said You’d Never Again Cave To Government Pressure? About That…
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
You may recall a year or so ago, when Mark Zuckerberg whined to Jim Jordan about how the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain… content.” Or maybe you remember when he went on Joe Rogan and whined some more about Bi…
Oct 15, 2025, 5:48 PM
Pete Hegseth’s press crackdown is backfiring
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
Even Fox News is fed up with the Pentagon’s new press restrictions
Oct 15, 2025, 1:05 PM
She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired
Huo Jingnan, NPR
Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."
Oct 11, 2025, 9:00 AM
When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Brendan Carr has received ample attention for his recent failed attempt to ban a comedian and trample the First Amendment, something he’s facing several fledgling investigations over. But that disaster class in shitty governance shouldn ’t overshadow all the o…
Oct 6, 2025, 12:25 PM
DOJ Demands Removal Of ICEBlock App; Why Are The ‘Free Speech Warriors’ Suddenly So Quiet?
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
For years now, the MAGA crowd has been absolutely convinced that the Biden administration engaged in the most egregious censorship campaign in American history. They’ve waved around the Murthy v. Missouri case as proof that Biden officials illegally pressured…
Oct 3, 2025, 6:08 PM
‘South Park’ Tortures FCC Chair Brendan Carr in New Episode
Opheli Garcia Lawler, Cracked.com
It’s pretty clear what Trey Parker and Matt Stone think about television’s top censor
Sep 25, 2025, 4:15 AM
Brendan Carr Is A Shameless Liar: Now Pretending He Didn’t Break The Law And Censor Comedians Critical Of His Dim, Unpopular Boss
Karl Bode, Techdirt
Brendan Carr is fairly typical of a far right wing zealot, in that he has absolutely no compulsion about lying, constantly, about everything. The latest case in point: Brendan Carr is trying to pretend he didn’t abuse FCC power and break the law to try and ce…
Sep 24, 2025, 7:32 PM
YouTube Gives the Right Wing What it Wants, Says Biden Admin ‘Pressed’ it to Remove Content
AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com
It'll also reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation.
Sep 24, 2025, 1:45 PM
Jimmy Kimmel’s return showed the potential — and limits — of celebrity resistance
Christian Paz, Vox
Our great national censorship nightmare is over — but only for about three-quarters of the ABC stations in America. Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air Tuesday night after Disney, the parent company of ABC, reversed its decision last week to suspend his talk sho…
Sep 24, 2025, 10:13 AM
Trump Supporters Are Lying About Biden ‘Censorship’ To Justify Brendan Carr’s Unconstitutional Kimmel Threats
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Trump supporters cycled through increasingly desperate explanations for why the Jimmy Kimmel situation was totally legitimate. First came the absurd “low ratings” defense—because sure, networks routinely cancel shows minutes before taping due to sudden rating…
Sep 23, 2025, 5:47 PM
Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is Back Following Disney Boycott
Zack Zwiezen, Kotaku
Jimmy Kimmel's late night show was suspended after comments he made about Charlie Kirk's murder The post Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is Back Following Disney Boycott appeared first on Kotaku.
Sep 22, 2025, 7:55 PM
Now ‘South Park’ Fans Really Do Believe Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Explanation For The Delay
Keegan Kelly, Cracked.com
Stone claimed that, if he really was censored, we would have heard about it by now
Sep 22, 2025, 4:00 PM
DeepSeek Model ‘Nearly 100% Successful’ at Avoiding Controversial Topics
AJ Dellinger, Gizmodo.com
Huawei chipped in on the censorship effort.
Sep 20, 2025, 5:50 PM
Kimmel’s suspension shows media censorship is a structural problem
Jeff Cohen, Salon
It's not just Donald Trump. Huge corporate power is also muzzling comedians
Sep 20, 2025, 10:15 AM
This is how Trump ends democracy
Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — the direct result of an FCC threat to pull the licenses of networks that aired him — has shown us how authoritarianism can come to America. I mean this literally. The specific threats that Federal Communications Commission head Bre…
Sep 19, 2025, 6:10 PM
How MAGA Killed Foreign Influence Research, But Now Demands Social Media Stop Foreign Influence Campaigns
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
It’s fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe’s on the other foot. For years, we’ve been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign manipulation on social media was “censorship” and a violation of Americans…
Sep 19, 2025, 5:50 PM
The right’s big lie about Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension
Eric Levitz, Vox
The Trump administration is openly coercing media organizations into suppressing speech that it does not like. On Monday night, late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel (irresponsibly) seemed to suggest that Charlie Kirk’s killer had conservative sympathies, before …
Sep 19, 2025, 2:26 PM
ABC Takes Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments, Prompting Wave of Support for Host
Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork
Public figures have expressed outrage after the FCC’s director threatened ABC with reprisals if it did not act on a Kimmel joke suggesting Kirk’s shooter was part of “the MAGA gang”
Sep 18, 2025, 2:13 PM