Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/02/censorship-free-speech-trump-tv-senators-citizens/686034/?gift=fGluH514ff4JSHA4lYCXpssVwi2x82P-zfMRegQzF_8

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vividspecter@aussie.zone · 35 pts · 186d (5 replies)

Streisand effect on their part, with the interview accumulating millions of views.

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 186d (2 replies)

3.6 million and counting.

"ooops"

criss_cross@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 185d (1 reply)

5.5 million now

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 185d

6.1 Millie. And counting… :)

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 185d (1 reply)

I don't even understand why they cut it. He sounded pretty milktoast centrist.

vividspecter@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 185d

I'm guessing it's because he gently criticised Christian Nationalism, and Trump can't allow that.

homes@piefed.world · 30 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Censorship came for him last year when he got a show canceled. This is simply an escalation.

mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 186d

Right? We're just pretending stuff didn't happen so we can pretend old news is new.

Just like the Epstein files.

CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Brendan Carr is a dummy

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 185d
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CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 185d

I'd love to see so many of this administration in prison.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 185d

He should move to Paramount, I guess