Is the Internet Still Free or Just a Digital Prison for Your Opinions?
Written by Peter Boykin on August 4, 2025
Is the Internet Still Free or Just a Digital Prison for Your Opinions?
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Is the Internet Still Free or Just a Digital Prison for Your Opinions
Has Internet Censorship Gone Too Far?
By Peter Boykin | #GoRight with Peter Boykin | GoRightNews.com
Is Comedy Now a Crime in the Land of the Free?
Ladies and gentlemen, patriots and popcorn-eating doom scrollers, get prepared for another episode of the Realest Show in the Republic, where the clowns don’t juggle, they legislate, the algorithms don’t compute, they cancel, and truth is the guest that never gets invited to the party. Welcome to another hard-hitting edition of the digital truth serum they don’t want you to swallow. That’s right, you’re tuned into #GoRight with Peter Boykin, where we unpack the truth, reload the facts, and fire back with liberty.
Let’s talk about Big Tech for a second. Have you ever wondered why Big Tech acts like a jealous ex? These platforms claim to be “safe spaces,” but they treat the Constitution like a TikTok challenge. You post a meme with a quote from the Founding Fathers? You post one opinion they don’t like, and suddenly, “Your account has been reviewed for violating community guidelines.” Community? What community? The Ministry of Groupthink? Boom “Community Guidelines Violation.” But show your dog doing taxes or your cat identifying as nonbinary? Verified.
We live in a time where our politicians need fact checkers, our fact checkers need therapy, and our algorithms need the Gospel.
Have you ever noticed how the phrase “misinformation” is just code for “something we didn’t approve of”? Have you ever noticed how the people who scream “disinformation” the loudest are the same ones who told us the economy was “booming” while we were eating canned ravioli for breakfast?
It’s like the Constitution is on a group chat, and someone forgot to charge the phone.
But seriously, this isn’t a joke. What used to be satire is now reality. What used to be fringe is now policy. What used to be “freedom of expression” is now “flagged for review.” Welcome to 2025, where even your memes need a lawyer.
And that brings us to a true story. Not fiction. Not parody. A real-world case of what happens when humor meets the new Iron Curtain, the Terms of Service. One that didn’t happen in North Korea, China, or George Orwell’s nightmare, it happened right here in our Constitutional Republic.
The Woman Who Got Silenced for Satire
Picture this. A woman in her twenties uploads a lighthearted satirical video to TikTok.
Funny? Sure. Offensive? Only if you’re a bureaucrat who thinks “woke math” is real.
But within 24 hours, her post was flagged. Her account was shadow-banned. Her reach was cut in half. TikTok’s reason? The ever-vague “misinformation.”
No hearings. No appeals. Just digital exile for exercising what used to be a God-given right: speaking truth, even in jest.
This isn’t a foreign dictatorship. This happened right here in the United States, in our Constitutional Republic.
This is what censorship looks like in 2025. It’s not burning books. It’s throttling voices. It’s not iron bars. It’s invisible strings pulled by faceless moderators and code-driven overseers.
And that’s not just dangerous, it’s un-American.
A young woman, mid-twenties, smart, funny, with a sharp tongue for hypocrisy, uploaded a short video to TikTok. In it, she mocked bureaucratic overreach. No profanity. No threats. Just good old-fashioned American sarcasm. She jokingly compares the Department of Education to a broken vending machine, put in your tax dollars, and nothing useful comes out. Funny? Yes. Offensive? Only if you’re the vending machine. But within hours, her video was removed. Her account was labeled for “misinformation.” She was slapped with a shadow ban, meaning her future posts would barely see the light of day.
No trial. No explanation. Just boom, she was digitally exiled for making a joke about inefficiency.
She wasn’t inciting violence. She wasn’t pushing lies. She was doing what the Founders expected us to do: speak up and speak out. She was participating in something we used to call free speech. Remember that thing? The First Amendment? It’s still in the Constitution, last I checked… even if Silicon Valley hasn’t scrolled that far.
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Is Free Speech the Next Knock-Knock Joke to Get Banned?
Now let me ask you this: if satire is unsafe, what’s next? Political cartoons? Comedy clubs? Knock-knock jokes?
Knock-knock.
Who’s there?
Free speech.
Free speech, who?
Account suspended for violating the terms of service.
Folks, this isn’t just about one creator, or one platform, or one algorithm gone rogue. This is the symptom of a deeper disease. A bureaucratic and corporate machine that decides what’s “acceptable,” what’s “approved,” and who gets to speak. And that machine, my friends, does not care about your party, your faith, your race, your hashtag, or your pronouns. It cares about control.
In a Constitutional Republic like ours, freedom isn’t optional. It’s foundational. But right now, the foundation is cracking, not from an outside enemy, but from inside our phones.
And that’s why we’re asking the question loud and clear:
Did censorship on the internet just go too far?
Stick around, because we’re about to dig into the facts, drag out the receipts, and call out every hypocrite hiding behind a terms-of-service screen.
Pop Culture and Internet Free Speech Collide
TikTok’s Censorship Whiplash in 2025
Let’s talk about TikTok, the app where teens do dances, influencers chase clout, and apparently, the First Amendment goes to die.
In 2025, TikTok tried to clean up its act, at least on paper. Facing congressional scrutiny, public backlash, and national security concerns, the company restructured its U.S. Content Advisory Council. They brought in liberty-respecting voices like David Inserra of the Cato Institute and Corbin Barthold of TechFreedom to consult on free speech and moderation issues.
TikTok also introduced “Footnotes,” a feature allowing editorial context on controversial videos instead of outright removal. According to TikTok, this would reduce “misinformation” without silencing speech entirely.
“This is about more than safety—this is about the future of open discourse,”
said Barthold. [Business Insider]
Sounds good, right?
Well, here’s the problem…
It’s 2025. The truth about COVID is no longer taboo. Government emails have been released. CDC policy reversals have been issued. Major news outlets have finally admitted that vaccine mandates, lockdowns, and information suppression caused real harm. Even the White House press secretary publicly admitted that the original pandemic response included coordinated messaging with social media companies.
And yet TikTok is still flagging the truth about COVID as “misinformation.”
Take this post, shared recently by GoRightNews.com on TikTok. It laid out the facts:
“The Biden administration weaponized the pandemic to silence dissent, censor truth, and punish anyone who dared to challenge the official narrative… They labeled truth-tellers as ‘disinformation agents’ while promoting untested experimental vaccines… even banning religious gatherings while allowing mass protests for their political allies.”
No threats. No false claims. Just historical comparison and factual analysis based on public records and real events.
But TikTok removed it. Labeled it “misinformation.”
Their explanation?
“We seek to operate on a shared set of facts and reality… We do not allow inaccurate, misleading, or false content that may cause significant harm.”
But what’s the “harm” here, telling the truth? Highlighting government overreach? Quoting the Constitution?
Here’s the real kicker: TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company that reports to a communist government that lied about the origins of COVID, silenced whistleblowers, and imprisoned doctors for sharing the truth.
So ask yourself: Why is a CCP-linked platform still allowed to throttle free speech in America, especially when that speech is about holding our government accountable?
I’m not advocating for a government shutdown of TikTok. That’s not our style. The First Amendment protects speech, even corporate speech. But let’s be honest:
If TikTok has the power to silence Americans on behalf of authoritarian regimes and corrupt bureaucrats, how long do we tolerate its presence in our public square?
Congress needs to answer that. The Constitution demands it. And the people deserve better than a platform that amplifies political propaganda and shock entertainment for clicks, while silencing pastors quoting scripture, veterans sounding alarms, parents defending their children, and medical experts challenging the official narrative.
Spotify and Censorship by Proxy
In 2025, the Biden administration’s behind-the-scenes role in shaping public narrative has come under fire again, this time involving Spotify, one of the world’s largest digital content platforms.
A congressional investigation, led by Rep. Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is probing whether Spotify was Covertly influenced by U.S. officials or foreign governments to suppress or limit the distribution of politically sensitive content. This includes popular but controversial programs like The Joe Rogan Experience and War Room with Steve Bannon, both of which have repeatedly aired criticism of government COVID policies, election integrity issues, and deep state overreach.
“If unelected bureaucrats or foreign governments are using backchannels to silence speech through private platforms, that’s a direct violation of the First Amendment,”
Jordan declared. [NY Post]
Sources within the Judiciary Committee report that emails and internal communications reveal “nudges” from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State, encouraging Spotify to enforce stricter “misinformation” rules, especially for content involving vaccines, election security, or criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
This isn’t direct censorship with a red pen. It’s indirect coercion, using the threat of regulation, bad PR, or political pressure to make private platforms do what the government legally cannot.
And that’s the new face of authoritarianism in our digital age.
It’s not about storming newsrooms or shutting down presses. It’s about quietly manipulating corporate policies under the guise of “public safety.” This allows government actors to claim clean hands, while platforms carry out ideological enforcement with plausible deniability.
But make no mistake, when the government whispers into the ears of tech executives and tells them who to silence, it’s still censorship.
And if Spotify complies out of fear of being fined, deplatformed, or dragged before Congress, then it isn’t content moderation.
It’s manipulation of the American mind.
UK Online Safety Act and Global Free Speech Tensions
Across the Atlantic, the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act has become one of the most aggressive internet censorship laws in the Western world. Marketed as a child protection law, its actual implementation reveals something far darker: the state-policed internet.
Under this act, platforms like X (formerly Twitter), YouTube, and TikTok are required to:
Remove content deemed “harmful” to users, even if it’s not illegal.
Enforce age verification systems for adult content.
Comply with sweeping demands by Ofcom, the UK’s broadcast and internet regulator, including scanning encrypted messages.
While it may have started as a bill to curb online grooming and cyberbullying, it’s morphed into an all-purpose excuse for the government to determine what speech is safe and what isn’t.
Critics like Nigel Farage, Big Brother Watch, and Amnesty International are warning that this act has become a blueprint for digital tyranny. Even the U.S. State Department has expressed concern, quietly.
“This law is a blueprint for digital authoritarianism,”
Farage said. [The Guardian]
Worse, the Online Safety Act could have an international impact. American platforms doing business in the UK must comply or be fined up to 10% of their global revenue. This means UK law could indirectly influence U.S. speech, forcing American platforms to adopt policies that conflict with our First Amendment just to remain operational overseas.
The implications are massive.
What begins as regulation in one country quickly becomes the global standard. And once that standard is adopted, there’s no room for dissent, only silence or punishment.
Our Constitutional Republic must stand firm and resist adopting these “harmful but legal” speech codes. Because what’s “harmful” to one bureaucrat is often just an inconvenient truth to the rest of us.
Cancel Culture’s Chilling Effect
You don’t need a government agent knocking on your door to feel silenced these days. You just need a friend list, a tweet, and a target painted on your back.
Cancel culture may not come with prison bars, but it still destroys careers, reputations, and public discourse. And in 2025, it’s more toxic and effective than ever.
Organizations like the Freedom Forum and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) have repeatedly warned that cancel culture creates a “chilling effect,” where people self-censor out of fear of social or professional consequences.
“The First Amendment protects you from the government. Cancel culture convinces you to silence yourself before the state even has to,”
a Freedom Forum report stated. [FreedomForum.org]
This effect is so powerful that even tenured professors, comedians, and military veterans now hesitate before posting opinions online.
We’re not just losing speech, we’re losing courage.
And what’s most dangerous? Cancel culture is culturally enforced but institutionally encouraged. Universities, corporate boards, and HR departments increasingly rely on social media outrage as a litmus test for moral virtue.
Say something off-script, and you’re gone. Not because you broke the law, but because you broke the narrative.
That’s not freedom. That’s thought control by algorithm and mob rule.
And in our Constitutional Republic, free expression must never bow to the hashtag mob.
The Pandemic Playbook That Crushed the Constitution
Let’s stop pretending this was accidental.
The Biden administration didn’t just mishandle the pandemic. They weaponized it, turning a public health emergency into a control mechanism that trampled on free speech, violated religious freedom, and suppressed dissent like a modern-day Ministry of Truth.
FACT: The federal government coordinated with Big Tech platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Google, to silence criticism and erase alternative information. This wasn’t just about fringe theories; it included the voices of credentialed doctors, epidemiologists, and journalists who dared to ask questions.
What happened?
Doctors who promoted early treatment or questioned vaccine mandates were deplatformed.
News outlets that reported on lab leak theories were shadow-banned.
Facebook users who mentioned natural immunity or religious objections were flagged for “harmful content.”
Churches were shut down, while liquor stores and abortion clinics stayed open.
People were banned from singing hymns in California, while tens of thousands attended unmasked George Floyd rallies with government approval.
This wasn’t science. This was control.
The irony? The White House claimed to fight “disinformation,” but it was their narrative that kept changing, from masks don’t work, to mask up forever; from you won’t get COVID if you’re vaccinated, to take boosters indefinitely; from trust the science, to silence the scientists.
And let’s not forget, this playbook wasn’t written in 2020. It was drafted during the Obama administration, where journalists were spied on, whistleblowers were punished, and dissent was quietly erased in the name of “national security.”
Sound familiar?
Just like Nazi Germany, where the government removed, silenced, and punished anyone who contradicted official propaganda, we witnessed the United States government collaborate with corporations to control speech and suppress thought, all under the banner of “saving lives.”
But here’s the truth: you don’t save lives by killing liberty.
When a government uses a crisis to expand its power and erase rights, the danger isn’t temporary; it’s a precedent. And that precedent is now hardwired into the federal machine. Every future administration, no matter the party, can now cite “emergency” as justification for silencing opposition.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory.
It’s a historical pattern.
The American people must demand accountability.
Not just from Biden. Not just from Fauci. But from every bureaucrat, tech executive, and agency that treated the Constitution like an outdated suggestion instead of the supreme law of the land.
We must never again allow a virus, a crisis, or a narrative to override our natural rights.
Are We Still Free If Truth Gets Flagged Before It Gets Heard
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We’ve just dissected it all, one platform at a time, one policy at a time, one betrayal of liberty at a time.
And when you step back and look at the full picture, TikTok labeling historical facts as misinformation, Spotify bending to political pressure, cancel culture punishing opinion like it’s a crime, and government officials using crises as cover to silence dissent, you start to realize something dangerous:
We are no longer debating freedom of speech.
We are negotiating with censorship.
They’re not trying to silence just one voice. They’re trying to silence the very idea that truth can exist outside their filters.
But here’s what they didn’t count on….
US
They didn’t expect you to keep digging.
They didn’t expect movements like Go Right to grow.
They didn’t expect people from every background, gay, straight, black, white, liberal, moderate, conservative, unaffiliated, or politically homeless, to wake up and say:
“Enough.”
Enough of watching algorithms choose what’s acceptable.
Enough of watching bureaucrats rewrite your rights in real-time.
Enough of watching a nation built on debate, dissent, and discussion be digitally muzzled by terms of service nobody voted on.
Let’s be real, this fight isn’t just for conservatives.
It’s for comedians, teachers, students, veterans, musicians, doctors, and anyone who still believes that the First Amendment wasn’t a suggestion, it was a commandment for a free people.
But if we don’t use it, we lose it.
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Because when truth gets flagged, and memes get censored, and church hymns are banned while strip clubs stay open, that’s not freedom, it’s fraud.
And the only cure for that kind of fraud…
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Has Internet Censorship Gone Too Far? The War on Truth in a Filtered Republic
This article is more than a report. It’s a megaphone for those who’ve been muted. A rallying cry for anyone who’s been shadowbanned, flagged, deplatformed, or too afraid to speak their mind in a digital world that punishes dissent. Written in the bold voice of Peter Boykin, founder of #GoRight and Gays for Trump, this piece unpacks the explosive reality of internet censorship in 2025.
From TikTok’s hypocrisy in flagging COVID truth while promoting CCP-aligned content, to Spotify’s quiet compliance with backchannel government pressure, to the United Kingdom’s Orwellian “Online Safety Act,” and America’s cancel culture addiction—this article exposes how Big Tech, Big Government, and Big Fear are teaming up to erode the most sacred right in a Constitutional Republic: the right to speak freely.
With humor, righteous indignation, facts, historical comparisons, and unapologetic clarity, Boykin delivers a talk-show-style monologue turned journalistic assault on the censorship industrial complex.
This is not just about conservatives being silenced. It’s about everyone, liberals, moderates, comedians, veterans, pastors, scientists, and students, being gaslit by unelected power structures that operate beyond the Constitution.
Whether you’re gay, straight, MAGA, moderate, or just sick of being told what’s “allowed,” this is your wake-up call.
The internet used to be a place of freedom.
Now it’s a battlefield for the soul of the Republic.
Are we still free if the truth gets flagged before it gets heard?
That’s the question this article dares to ask, and demands you help answer.
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