The government's use of agencies to coerce or pressure social media companies to remove content constitutes a major violation of the First Amendment.
“we all know the government can't censor speech but you also can't outsource that censorship to private companies which is exactly what was going down and I think exposing that was really important.”
The All-In Podcast · Aug 2025 · 1 episode · 101K views on this topicJordan Peterson argues that collaboration between the government and media to craft narratives during an emergency is unjustified and dangerous.
“I'm not very impressed by government-media collusion efforts to craft narratives. That's certainly not the media's role. That's 100% certain to craft narratives with the government, and I don't think that that's justified even in the face of a so-called emergency.”
Jordan B Peterson · May 2023 · 1 episode · 327K views on this topicDavid Zweig asserts that there was an overly heavy hand on suppressing information on Twitter, which consistently favored establishment narratives.
“but there certainly was to my mind an an overly heavy hand on suppressing important information and that heavy hand always seemed to go in one direction.”
Jordan B Peterson · May 2023 · 1 episode · 327K views on this topicThe US government has successfully institutionalized a domestic censorship regime by using the Department of Homeland Security and third-party contractors to monitor and silence political dissent.
“So, January 6th was the day that the government got to get around the First Amendment to be able to censor tweets and Facebook posts and YouTube videos.”
Danny Jones · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 204K views on this topicHasan Piker believes that while government censorship is generally unreasonable, it is somewhat understandable for countries like North Korea to be paranoid given their history of domination by Wester
“I think like government censorship of this sort is obviously totally unreasonable. But the only area the only countries where I think it's like more reasonable than I don't know the western world cuz I don't have I have way more smoke for Chinese censorship and Chinese government control than I do f”
HasanAbi · Apr 2025 · 1 episode · 144K views on this topicHe advocates for the active use of government power to counteract leftist ideologies and protect traditional moral standards in the country.
“There is no reality, there's no mathematical equation where we as either libertarian, post-liberal, liberal, disaffected liberal, conservative or otherwise who have sided with Trump survive unless we actively use the powers of government to protect our moral worldview and stop the people from destro”
Timcast IRL · Apr 2025 · 1 episode · 25K views on this topicThe host believes individuals should be able to speak freely on platforms like Rumble despite potential content issues, arguing against institutional suppression.
“Yes, of course, there's crazy people on Rumble. There's crazy people everywhere. There's a crazy person living under this hat. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have the right to speak freely together.”
Russell Brand · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 21K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
Complete months · first on record May 2023