Why Susan Sarandon’s Cancellation Is So Revealing

Legacy Media outlets don’t actually care about free speech. Sure, we’ve had a year-plus of stories about fascism, dictatorships and a certain Orange Hitler allegedly clamping down on our First Amendment rights. Yet the same outlets were conspicuously silent before Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office in 2025. They ignored or downplayed serial speech attacks from all sides. Here’s just a partial list: Gina Carano fired for an innocuous post pleading for tolerance The Twitter Files silenced conservatives on a major social media platform Sensitivity readers erased passages from iconic authors like Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie Comedians were alternately self-censoring or attempting to cancel their peers Online creators watched their work get censored by Big Tech platforms That’s just