Forbidden Knowledge TV: 23-12-2025,
I’m hearing that some British creators and subscribers are fleeing Substack due to the platform’s acquiescence to the tyranny of the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), the analogues of which are also being rolled out in Australia and in the EU. If you are a resident of these countries, the simple act of reading a Substack chat now requires a full body cavity search of your entire Digital Twin.
Due to the fact that censorship is illegal in America, the workaround is “Freedom of Speech, not freedom of reach,” as X.com ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino once said, which basically refers to shadowbanning – the kinder, gentler way to de-platform users.
Whereas, in the UK, they arrest 30 people per day for their tweets. In the US, we’re just algorithmically un-personed, with no warning, no explanation and no recourse, millions at a time, as was my case on several major platforms in January of 2021.
Although President Trump has issued multiple Executive Orders during both of his administrations to end censorship and although the House Oversight hearings about the Censorship Industrial Complex did help to dismantle the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), as well as the DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) – thus depriving Nina Jankowicz of a plum job violating your First Amendment rights as the head of a full-fledged US Federal Government agency – the sad fact is that censorship is very much alive in the US,