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Mass Censorship: It’s A Racket!

The malignant tech censorship policies of the Joe Biden administration closely mirrored the recommendations and guidelines spelled out by Tech Policy Press. This is a Texas non-profit, with both a newsletter and a podcast, under the direction of CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix.

Hendrix had previously been director of the NYC Media Lab and an adjunct professor in the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Bryan Jones, the champion  swimmer and diving competitor who exceled at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Australia, serves as chairman of the Tech Policy Press board of directors.

We normally don’t pay too much attention to obscure, academic mouthpieces like Tech Policy Press. But because the censorship during the Biden years was so pervasive, and crippling, and — because we had our own voices silenced by Twitter for more than three years —  we’re going to make an exception in this case. Mike Benz plans an 11-hour rollercoaster to unwind the censorship. He will point out its architects, giving us a step-by-step look at how the leftist creeps and degenerates from Biden’s term attempted to enforce mass censorship.

Here is the first hour of Benz’s coverage, called “The Business Side of the Censorship Industry.” He plans continuing additions once or twice a week until he’s wrapped. We’re going to try to run the full series, but we warn you in advance: We might have to hold some chapters for a day or two, if the press of news intervenes. So follow Benz on YouTube if you want to be assured more immediate access. He is the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online.

A Big Mac Settlement?

Rotund Communist Frogan SCAMS Audience For 5,786 Big Macs 🍔💵

The Ethan Klein H3H3 lawsuit against Frogan for copyright infringement has ended in a default judgment against Frogan. May 20 2026 the court clerk entered a default against Frogan in Ethan Klein’s copyright infringement case, meaning she and her legal team failed to respond to the complaint entirely. Lex Jewthor wins again 🤣

For those who need the backstory — Ethan Klein sued Frogan, Denims and Kaceytron for livestreaming his Content Nuke video about Hasan Piker to their audiences without adding transformative commentary, deliberately driving traffic away from his original upload. Kaceytron did an ISIS hostage style video apology and settled. Denims is still fighting. Frogan raised $38,766 in a GoFundMe that specifically included “personal expenses” in the description, cried on stream in December about not being able to pay rent, never filed a response to the lawsuit, and now faces a default judgment with bankruptcy likely inbound according to Legal Mindset.

SugarTits and I have a theory about where the $38,766 went. The word on the street is 5,786 Big Macs – OR – 3,511 Big Mac McValue meals. We present this theory in good faith. Here’s more from Bearing.

Late Night Became Insufferable

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show aired its final episode Thursday night, ending a decade-long run that cost CBS roughly $40 million a year and alienated half the country.

Bridget Phetasy breaks down how Trump derangement syndrome turned late night television from a unifying institution into a smug resistance rally — and why no one is actually sad to see it go. Also: The case for Dumpster Fire to fill the slot.

Buh Bye, Stephen!

Stephen Colbert is now off the air as CBS has canned The Late Show.

Let’s hope Colbert is gone for good! Real trailer trash. Here’s more from Mark Dice.

 

How CIA Stacks The Deck

How did Newsguard, a pro-censorship arm spawned by Microsoft,  come to play a central role in burying conservative-slanted news platforms?

Here, Mike Benz the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, dives into the many varied games that leftists play to limit and control free speaking by their opposition. Microsoft serves as a bulwark for many of the NGOs, or Non-Governmental Organizations, on the Left. These same outfits have been trying to use Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to pressure advertisers.

Much of their pressure seems aimed at getting the advertisers to abandon X, the social media platform under the ownership of Elon Musk. Meanwhile, we learn many of these same NGOs are stooges for the CIA. How does Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder who palled around with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, figure into the equation?

How Was This Allowed On TV?

Let’s explore just how heavily public television in Germany degrades its homegrown population, while going over and above to praise migrants.

Native Germans are always depicted as old-fashioned and racist, who seemingly enjoy preying upon migrant children. This is truly creepy stuff. Here’s more from Paul Joseph Watson.

From Folsom Prison To YouTube

Before YouTube. Before millions of subscribers. Before Friday Night Tights — Gary Buechler, better known as Nerdrotic, had a story almost nobody knew. It starts at Folsom Prison, a neighbor’s jar of pennies, and a double-murderer cellmate who wouldn’t leave him alone.

His memoir is called Waiting For. That title alone should tell you something. He sat down with AJ in The Basement and held nothing back. Watch to the end. Here’s more from The Why Files.

Styx: A Drunken Fugitive Pirate

Styxhexenhammer666 — Tarl Warwick — used to be a fairly coherent libertarian YouTuber with a hot Dutch wife, a kid, and a future. Then he moved back to America, became an alcoholic, and things went sideways in the most spectacular fashion possible.

The short version: convicted of domestic abuse battery in New Orleans in July 2025, arrested in Vermont in December 2025 on felony aggravated domestic assault charges carrying up to 16 and a half years — while wearing a full pirate outfit and carrying a machete. Asked the cops if he could keep his pirate hat on during the ride to the police station. Currently has a bench warrant out for failing to appear at court. Is on the run – living with a special needs woman he just met whose parents pay the rent. Has no teeth. Is still making videos.

SugarTits and I go through the full arc — Jeremy the Quartering bailing him out of jail on livestream, falling asleep drunk on Jeremy’s podcast and getting fired, the pirate arrest footage, the girlfriend who punched his teeth out, him telling his audience to quit their jobs and abandon their friends while facing 17 years and a GoFundMe for a cat funeral.

He also has a cat in a freezer. We have questions about whose freezer. Here’s more from Bearing.

Twitter’s Secret: More Cowbells

Investigative journalist Matt Taibbi reveals the shadow banning system he discovered inside the Twitter Files.

He’d spent years trying to alert left-leaning journalists to the growing threat to free speech but they either ignored his warnings or defended censorship.

Even after Matt exposed blatant collusion between the FBI, NGOs, and Big Tech, his colleagues still couldn’t be bothered to defend the values that define real journalism. Here, Taibbi exposes the censorship racket in a conversation with Dad Saves America.

Alex Jones Still Won!

The Onion bought InfoWars — or tried to — and Alex Jones somehow came out of it looking like the winner after leftist comedian Tim Heidecker FLOPS in his attempt to parody Jones.

After being ordered to pay $1.4 billion to Sandy Hook Shooting families for calling the shooting a hoax, the courts started liquidating his assets. The Onion swooped in, won the auction, got blocked by a judge, came back with a lease deal for $81,000 a month, got blocked again by a Texas appeals court, and now it’s sitting with the Texas Supreme Court while Jones does his last show and immediately fires up a new stream at alexjoneslive.com with 129,000 live viewers.

The Onion’s big plan to parody InfoWars is being led by Tim Heidecker from Tim and Eric, and SugarTits and I watched the preview. He drinks fake blood and does an Alex Jones voice. That’s the bit. The problem is Alex Jones is already at eleven out of ten — you literally cannot parody a man who predicted 9/11 on tape several months before it happened and named Osama bin Laden specifically.

They’re paying half a million dollars over six months to lease a website to do an impression of a guy who is funnier than any impression of him could ever be, while the man himself just moved studios, kept his audience, and is already back on air. They tried to silence Alex Jones and created a Streisand effect. Classic. Here’s more from Bearing.

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