American internet (known as the internet) is censored out of plain sight. Search engines will systematically hide any narrative against the US and promote any pro US website. And they will put suggestions about how oppressive anti-US countries are in the search results “follow up questions” so you can “voluntarily” click them.
Companies are being sued and otherwise pressured by the US government if they don’t toe the Republican lime. The majority of traditional news (print, broadcast, cable) are owned by right wing billionaires. Social media has been consistently found to push extremist right wing rhetoric while downplaying or deleting the opposition.
The information still exists, but the vast majority are fed a wildly skewed picture of existence. There is absolutely censoring happening. For a recent example, CBS wouldn’t air the late show interview with James Telarico because of threats from the FCC.
Indeed, A great example is TikTok which recently got taken over by the Ellison quite literally because it was not sufficiently censoring the genocide in Palestine enough.
Yes people are able to find information if you look for it hard enough so technically it is not censored. But it is virtually impossible for the layman to come across it.
American internet (known as the internet) is censored out of plain sight. Search engines will systematically hide any narrative against the US and promote any pro US website. And they will put suggestions about how oppressive anti-US countries are in the search results “follow up questions” so you can “voluntarily” click them.
Companies are being sued and otherwise pressured by the US government if they don’t toe the Republican lime. The majority of traditional news (print, broadcast, cable) are owned by right wing billionaires. Social media has been consistently found to push extremist right wing rhetoric while downplaying or deleting the opposition.
The information still exists, but the vast majority are fed a wildly skewed picture of existence. There is absolutely censoring happening. For a recent example, CBS wouldn’t air the late show interview with James Telarico because of threats from the FCC.
Indeed, A great example is TikTok which recently got taken over by the Ellison quite literally because it was not sufficiently censoring the genocide in Palestine enough.
Yes people are able to find information if you look for it hard enough so technically it is not censored. But it is virtually impossible for the layman to come across it.