YouTube BANS Trump Interview With Nelk Boys
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by YouTube to take down an interview of former President Trump conducted by the Nelk Boys that had millions of views on the platform
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by YouTube to take down an interview of former President Trump conducted by the Nelk Boys that had millions of views on the platform
Not particularly surprising, the steady increase in the stranglehold on information, justified by public safety, has always been primarily about wartime control in an age getting more and more dangerous – we are seeing them flex this a little for the first time.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss what qualifies as legitimate violence in light of Facebook’s approval of content calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin.
Policy Director at the Conservative Partnership Institute, Rachel Bovard, reacts the US Surgeon General’s request for big tech companies to provide data on covid misinformation.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss Rising YouTube’s suspension.
Krystal and Saagar analyze the decisions by American and Russian officials to take the countries’ respective media down as the Cold War rhetoric heats up
Imagine if there was a revolution similar to what the USSR and Warsaw Pact experienced in the late 80s/early 90s only on a much larger scale with the Russian, American, and Chinese regimes collapsing at the same time. Krystal and Saagar cover Russia’s domestic crackdown on outside social […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Multiple American podcasters who speak critically of the political status quo in their country are reporting that their channels have been shut down as the censorship campaign against Russia-backed media continues to escalate. These include Moment of Clarity with Lee Camp, The Politics of Survival […]
By Elon Musk, The Week SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Saturday that he would not ban Russian news sources from his Starlink satellite network, Business Insider reported. “Starlink has been told by some governments (not Ukraine) to block Russian news sources. We will not do so unless at […]
By Ryan Grim, The Intercept YouTube knocked a show I co-host, The Hill’s “Rising,” off the air. The politics morning show “Rising,” produced by The Hill and which I currently co-host, was suspended by YouTube on Thursday for allegedly violating the platform’s rules around election misinformation. Two infractions […]
They’re not trying to clear political content, they’re trying to clear independent political content, if you’re part of the machine your good to go.
Are platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram harming Americans in ways that government regulation could help correct?
It goes both ways. Russia just banned multiple opposition networks like Echo and Dozhd. That’s very important context.
By Caitlin Johnstone Kremlin-backed media outlets have been banned throughout the European Union, both on television and on apps and online platforms. RT has lost its Sky TV slot in the UK, where the outlet is also blocked on YouTube. Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel have dropped […]
Reason magazine’s Liz Wolfe breaks down Big Tech’s role in enforcing the West’s sanctions on Russia.
Krystal and Saagar explain why the decision by Big Tech companies to ban Russian state propaganda at the direction of the EU could backfire as the Ukraine war progresses
By Caitlin Johnstone “I’m concerned about Russian disinformation spreading online, so today I wrote to the CEOs of major tech companies to ask them to restrict the spread of Russian propaganda,” US Senator Mark Warner tweeted on Friday. Since then YouTube has announced that it has suppressed videos […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the launch of former President Trump’s twitter competitor Truth Social and how the platform failed in its effort to have a big opening day
Krystal and Saagar respond to the decision by TikTok to drop the show’s account from the platform for 24 hours due to a segment that was posted defending Joe Rogan
“I guess Russia has a lotta great assets” Had me crack up.
By Lee Fang The Intercept The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. In January, The Markup revealed a list of apps that have sold location data to X-Mode, a controversial data broker that […]
By Damon Linker The Week Nothing terrifies contemporary conservatives more than the thought that their woke-progressive enemies will bring the regulatory weight of the federal government — in alignment with Big Tech and the economic and cultural powers that dominate civil society — to drive them out of the […]
The Department of Homeland Security, presumably at the direction of the Biden administration, has issued a new terrorist warning surrounding the extraordinarily dangerous threat posed by anyone questioning or “spreading misinformation” about the government’s COVID response. Such prospective terrorists may even be receiving aid and comfort from nefarious […]
Reminder that the US government is trying to pass a law to mandate security backdoors in every internet service.
Legendary leftist Noam Chomsky was recently asked by interviewer Marc Lamont Hill to weigh in on the cancellation and condemnation directed at podcaster Joe Rogan. Chomsky downplayed the importance of these censorship calls, saying that instead the nation should be much more concerned with right-wing efforts to ban […]
By James Pethokoukis The Week During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, so the story goes, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent President John F. Kennedy a letter offering to remove missiles from Cuba if the U.S. pledged not to invade the island nation. But before Kennedy could respond, Khrushchev […]
Kim Iversen breaks down concerning new language in a Department of Homeland Security bulletin about domestic terrorism.
Breach of contract or not, Rogan keeps some portion of his Spotify income if he leaves. So the deal might be really sweet for him. That said, I doubt he leaves Spotify.
Bleeping out the word is still censorship. Editing out the Kanye quote is also censorship. Where are the George Carlin’s when we need them? They’ve been politically corrected to death.
Krystal and Saagar discuss the implications of free speech alternative video platform Rumble offering Joe Rogan $100 million to leave Spotify and join the platform to post all his content
Krystal and Saagar analyze the causes of Facebook’s largest stock price drop on record as the company was also hit with early investor Peter Thiel’s departure from its board
Krystal analyzes the Rogan smear campaign from the perspective of how it represents a deeper rot of American politics and what the end result of something like this could be
Krystal and Saagar chronicle the efforts by Gofundme backed by Ottawa police and the Canadian government to withhold funds raised by the freedom convoy trucker protest
Kim Iversen details the latest developments in the Canadian truckers’ anti-vaccine mandate protests.
Bill has always defended other people’s speech. He’s always been consistent about that. He’s good in that regard. There should be little to no cancellations. However, if someone champions cancellation of others, then maybe it’s time for them to be cancelled. This is becoming much like Maximilien Robespierre […]
Robby Soave makes his case against wiping episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience from Spotify.
Krystal and Saagar break down the developments in the Joe Rogan , Spotify saga as the streaming service has removed some of his podcast episodes and videos of Rogan using the n-word have resurfaced
The account responsible for digging all this up has DIRECT link to a Democrat Super PAC. The Quartering just did a video on this. Joe can apologize all he wants but it’s all about power. You’re totally right Kim ♥️
As I have said before, now that the new popular front is in power, opposition from both the right and left is being purged. Big Seltzer can’t save Kyle from the Rogan and Spotify craziness
Saagar takes an in-depth look at the financial interests and Democratic party operatives behind the attempt to get Joe Rogan removed from Spotify and canceled
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Dr. John Abramson to discuss how big pharma has broken the American healthcare system and what the truth is behind covid vaccines & Joe Rogan
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski of Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to professor and author Ben Burgis about why the left should support free speech for Joe Rogan and others they disagree with
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times The GoFundMe fundraising platform said Feb. 5 it will automatically refund donations made to a trucker convoy in Canada protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates after backlash. GoFundMe said Friday it was preventing the funds from going to organizers of the Freedom Convoy and would […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Spotify removed over 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast The Joe Rogan Experience Friday, according to The Daily Beast and the website “JRE Missing,” which compares Spotify’s current listings with a database that includes every episode ever released. Rogan has drawn criticism for […]
My whole issue with the censorship debate is they just assume we’re all too stupid to recognize information and make our own decisions
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on behalf of the Biden administration demanding Spotify do more to censor Joe Rogan
Former Democratic presidential candidate says attempts to censor Joe Rogan is ‘latest indicator about the real danger’ society is facing.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make the case that the Biden administration’s public calls on Spotify to censor information is a violation of the First Amendment.
By Peter R. Quiñones Truckers could end every COVID related issue in seven days. Imagine trucks not entering DC for a week. Sure, they could get some things off ships, but those vessels are not prepared to cover the loss of the goods in those trucks. I can’t […]
By Damon Linker, The Week There’s something odd about the protest against Spotify’s mega-podcaster Joe Rogan. It started when folk-rocker Neil Young issued an ultimatum: Rogan shouldn’t be spreading skepticism about vaccines, so either he goes or I do. When Spotify refused to break its multimillion-dollar deal with […]
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