Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2017-05 to 2026-07.
The people on the most episodes about this topic over the trailing three months, excluding their own shows — ordered by VoiceRank, their score across the whole corpus. The chart tracks each one’s episodes month by month.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Powerful government and corporate entities are colluding to systematically silence dissent, punish non-conformity, and erode free speech.
46 people · 44 episodes
The US government exported its domestic censorship models to Brazil to suppress the exchange of ideas between conservative movements.
“we exported our censorship models when they started to work against Trump we exported them to Brazil we exported them to Europe we're exporting them to Australia as part of a state department usaid push to control the information space in every country on Earth”
PBD Podcast · Feb 2025 · 2 episodes · 1.0M views on this topicThe suppression and marginalization of conservative voices by mainstream platforms creates an environment that justifies political violence.
“This YouTube right here is exactly what created the environment for what happened to Charlie Kirk. I hope you understand that. banning and censoring and marginalizing and removing the voice for over a decade and I've been here of half more than half the country the half that elects presidents that a”
StevenCrowder · Sep 2025 · 24 episodes · 6.5M views on this topicHe argues that government-led censorship typically serves to increase state power at the expense of individual rights.
“it always results in the state accumulating more power at the expense of the individual.”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 3.1M views on this topicSocial media platforms and media networks are increasingly colluding to restrict dissenting opinions and control public narratives.
“Tik Tok is going to start restricting bad opinions. YouTube, Facebook already do these companies are going to decide probably based on what intelligence agencies want, what the acceptable narrative is.”
Timcast IRL · Mar 2026 · 12 episodes · 1.8M views on this topicCensorship efforts are often driven by media entities or political groups attempting to silence voices they disagree with.
“I don't know if people know this or not Instagram blocked a man account from being able to run ads for a year because of this time story Tommy Robinson charging $20 a minute out his personal coach to the far right the self-style anti-Islam activist and this is from UK they reached out directly to Fa”
Valuetainment · Aug 2025 · 5 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicIndividuals should be free to express humor and artistic works without fear of ostracization, censorship, or institutional pressure.
8 people · 7 episodes

Comedians should be able to make jokes about elected officials freely without being censored.
“But this is the Mark Twain. This is the only time that you shouldn't get censored because it is about comedians using humor to criticize our elected officials.”
Whitney Cummings · Jul 2026 · 2 episodes · 295K views on this topicSelf-censorship is driven by fear of being punished or ostracized for expressing one's honest truth.
“Selfcensorship is driven by fear. Again, you believe on some level, usually very unconscious, that you are going to be punished if you express what is true. If I am honest with you right now, you are going to ostracize me. You're going to abandon me. You're going to reject me.”
Jay Shetty Podcast · Jul 2025 · 2 episodes · 273K views on this topicViewers should stop flagging videos as the practice hurts content creators and is unnecessary.
“Don't flag the fucking video, alright? Stop flagging the video I'm sick and tired of this fucking shit. Can y'all stop flagging my fucking videos? Slop flagging the videos, God damn it.”
PewDiePie · May 2017 · 2 episodes · 8.4M views on this topicHe feels constant anxiety about the unpredictability of being removed from platforms due to vague and enforced community guidelines.
“I just I feel nervous again because we never know what's going to get us removed from YouTube. No, it could be anything at any moment.”
StevenCrowder · Nov 2022 · 4 episodes · 3.0M views on this topicHe acknowledges that the industry, specifically comedy, is small and hyper-vigilant, leading people to fear losing their careers if they express dissenting opinions.
“The industry that we come from, unfortunately, it's a very small circle and it's everybody's watching everybody all the time. Right. point where when I was sort of in the place that you described where you came across people who were doing stuff online that you thought, "Oh, I'm learning something."”
Triggernometry · Jan 2022 · 9 episodes · 1.7M views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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