Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/censorship-free-speech-trump-tv-senators-citizens/686034/?gift=fGluH514ff4JSHA4lYCXpssVwi2x82P-zfMRegQzF_8Open linkView original on lemmy.world133
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Streisand effect on their part, with the interview accumulating millions of views.
3.6 million and counting.
"ooops"
5.5 million now
6.1 Millie. And counting… :)
I don't even understand why they cut it. He sounded pretty milktoast centrist.
I'm guessing it's because he gently criticised Christian Nationalism, and Trump can't allow that.
Censorship came for him last year when he got a show canceled. This is simply an escalation.
Right? We're just pretending stuff didn't happen so we can pretend old news is new.
Just like the Epstein files.
Brendan Carr is a dummy
I'd love to see so many of this administration in prison.
He should move to Paramount, I guess