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If anything, the federal government became even more aggressive in it's censorship efforts under the current administration. Banning individual words in federal
by josefritzishere 11mo ago
If anything, the federal government became even more aggressive in it's censorship efforts under the current administration. Banning individual words in federal reports and grantees publications, pressuring networks to fire program hosts, performatively lawsuits, threatening to pull broadcast licenses and now even censoring an individual CBS story. Things have distinctly escalated.
- ch4s3 11mo agoIt doesn't seem like its working very well for them, and if anything polarize people further as the article suggests.
- josefritzishere 11mo agoIt does seem almost performative doesnt it? Censorship would be more effective if the machinations weren't so public.