When the outlook is so poor that you have to crack down on reporting about it, it's a sign you’re in an authoritarian system.
FCC Chair Threatens to Revoke Broadcasters’ Licenses Over Iran War Coverage

The comment from Brendan Carr came on the heels of a social media message from President Trump criticizing the news media’s coverage of the war with Iran.

The New York Times
@georgetakei If it behaves like a fascist government, and sounds like a fascist government, then it's a violent fascist government and allies of its people should behave accordingly
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Our own boring version of Joseph Goebbels.
@georgetakei Sound like advice from the putin regime to the trump regime.
@georgetakei guess who also censored media?

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Thing is if the Social Media Corporates decided to implement such censorship then it would be legal as it is their platforms.

This is why the Fediverse is great, because such censorship can only work on the instance level and you have self-hosting capacity