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YouTube Admits to Broad Censorship Program, Vows Reform

Amid the uproar over comic Jimmy Kimmel’s brief Cancellation over comments about the Charlie Kirk slaying, this much bigger story slid by unnoticed

Google says it was largely at the government’s behest. The Biden administration apparently believed in censorship far more than many Americans realized.

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Science Cancellation Continues: Meet the Latest Victim

Marty Rowland, an editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, has been fired for publishing an article arguing the carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems

Nothing great is at stake in what happened to Kimmel. In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. 

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Wanted: Comedian Who is Actually Funny

First Colbert, now Kimmel.

Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.

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