TLDR: There was no "censorship industrial complex" under the Biden administration. But the MAGA officials who continue to believe in it have done a lot of damage.
The MAGA Right Is Only Pretending to Be Censored
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/censorship-industrial-complex-conspiracy/688490
10 Comments
thefluffiest@feddit.nl · 24 pts · 1d
It’s all projection, as per usual
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
The right thinks it is their right to host whatever crazy shit they want on "social media". And not just that, they think it's the job of those platforms to spread that nonsense; even promote it and jam it down the throats of everyone.
Just see how they talk about Hunter's
hard drive, oops, I mean laptop. Or the way Elon acted like he had to buy Xitter, to "rescue free speech" or whatever.HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
There was never any censorship, in any meaningful capacity whatsoever,against these fascist assholes. All these claims of censorship that lead to the anti-SJW alt-right pipeline fiasco were always fabricated. Millions of dipshits across the western hemisphere were duped and still believe in this bullshit to this day.
To this date, the only significant attacks against free speech is from the far right against leftists. That is all
jtrek@startrek.website · 9 pts · 1d
Where's that comic with the guy saying "I've been SILENCED" on like tv, radio, and a book tour?
The right wing are a bunch of insecure idiots who can't grapple with the complexity of real life, and so demand everything be simplified into hierarchical in-group and out-group. They're failures. Even dogs can figure that out.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
The unhinged right wing had a lot of cover from the so-called "liberal media", too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tpqFxfomI
The claim that conservatives have been in any way censored or "cancelled" is total horseshit. At most, maybe a few had to suffer a bit of shame for a second.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
While MAGA has their head up their ass and loves to pretend to be a target; they are partially a rubber band effect of cancel culture going too far. Don't believe me? Ask Al Franken.
hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
The MAGA right needs to be utterly destroyed, scattered and suppressed. Burn all confederate flags, destroy all racist art and symbols, hunt down all elements of alt-right White nationalism, purge religious extremists, persecute hate groups.
Don’t tolerate the intolerant. We need to start learning from history. Sometimes you need a degree of benevolent authoritarianism to keep this nonsense in check. Germany is already experiencing a resurgence of Nazism because of their liberal tolerance.
We need to finally finish what the reconstruction left unfinished. Fascism needs to be finished for good.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 1d
Pretend persecution is the right wing's kink. Always has been, always will be.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1d
No, I'm pretty sure the racism and misogyny are "censored" (technically not censorship since censorship is when the government itself bans it) by most moderation in online spaces. That's why they flock to shit like X, Facebook, and Truth Social; where they won't be moderated for being disgusting little trolls.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1d
They have trouble understanding the difference between being censored and being made to face the fact that you're an asshole.