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This is news to me! Could you share an example of some censored media in the US that's available elsewhere?

lenkite 10mo ago
My bad - I thought Tiktok (and other Bytedance apps) were banned in the US but apparently not since President Trump reversed the US Supreme Court decision. Huh, so it is mainly the European powers who are the culprits. Changed my claim.
- boston_clone 10mo ago
  All good, it can be a ...chore to keep track of what decisions and reversals the current administration is making. To support your original claim - when I was in the military, we were explicitly forbidden to look at anything Snowden leaked as it was still classified and would be a violation of our clearances as we did not have either the appropriate level (e.g., TS-SCI) or need to know. Kind of understandable, but still.
  - buggeryorkshire 10mo ago
    I was working at a place in the UK where I only had BPSS but everybody else in the office had top clearance as they worked on military stuff, this was when The Guardian were doing the Snowden stuff. It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk. From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...
- cosmicgadget 10mo ago
  Congress passed a law that banned TikTok in its current form. SCOTUS upheld the ban. Trump has used temporary extensions afforded to him in the law, he cannot reverse the court decision.
defrost 10mo ago
An example, not current, is that the US Government censored all access to wikileaks in 2010 - enforced for all Federal workers, military personal, etc. You can certainly argue that this was ineffective censorship that could be evaded, but it was, in fact, censorship by the US Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States#Information_leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State... It's the same across the world, countries that routinely censor material still have their citizens evading censorship. Also: Analysts from Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States 57th in the world out of 180 countries in their 2025 Press Freedom Index and they gave the country a "problematic" designation. Certain forms of speech, such as obscenity and defamation, are restricted in communications media by the government or by the industry on its own. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State... ~ https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024 https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024
- cosmicgadget 10mo ago
  That is a pretty tiny straw to grasp at considering we are talking about Russia blocking international media because they don't want people to know about homosexuality and SMO casualty numbers.
  - defrost 10mo ago
    No straw of any size is being grasped here. The GP comment asked for examples of censorship in the US. Examples were provided.
    - cosmicgadget 10mo ago
      Wikileaks isn't censored in the US. To say that government employees being instructed to respect the classification of public documents is... certainly one interpretation of censorship. Libel isn't media that is censored in the US and available internationally.
      - 10mo ago

My bad - I thought Tiktok (and other Bytedance apps) were banned in the US but apparently not since President Trump reversed the US Supreme Court decision. Huh, so it is mainly the European powers who are the culprits. Changed my claim.

boston_clone 10mo ago
All good, it can be a ...chore to keep track of what decisions and reversals the current administration is making. To support your original claim - when I was in the military, we were explicitly forbidden to look at anything Snowden leaked as it was still classified and would be a violation of our clearances as we did not have either the appropriate level (e.g., TS-SCI) or need to know. Kind of understandable, but still.
- buggeryorkshire 10mo ago
  I was working at a place in the UK where I only had BPSS but everybody else in the office had top clearance as they worked on military stuff, this was when The Guardian were doing the Snowden stuff. It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk. From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...
cosmicgadget 10mo ago
Congress passed a law that banned TikTok in its current form. SCOTUS upheld the ban. Trump has used temporary extensions afforded to him in the law, he cannot reverse the court decision.

defrost 10mo ago

An example, not current, is that the US Government censored all access to wikileaks in 2010 - enforced for all Federal workers, military personal, etc. You can certainly argue that this was ineffective censorship that could be evaded, but it was, in fact, censorship by the US Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States#Information_leaks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State... It's the same across the world, countries that routinely censor material still have their citizens evading censorship. Also: Analysts from Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States 57th in the world out of 180 countries in their 2025 Press Freedom Index and they gave the country a "problematic" designation. Certain forms of speech, such as obscenity and defamation, are restricted in communications media by the government or by the industry on its own. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State... ~ https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024 https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024

cosmicgadget 10mo ago
That is a pretty tiny straw to grasp at considering we are talking about Russia blocking international media because they don't want people to know about homosexuality and SMO casualty numbers.
- defrost 10mo ago
  No straw of any size is being grasped here. The GP comment asked for examples of censorship in the US. Examples were provided.
  - cosmicgadget 10mo ago
    Wikileaks isn't censored in the US. To say that government employees being instructed to respect the classification of public documents is... certainly one interpretation of censorship. Libel isn't media that is censored in the US and available internationally.
    - 10mo ago