The head of the Federal Communications Commission is warning U.S. media outlets to fall in line with government narratives on the war with Iran — or risk losing their broadcast licenses.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/177711

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

This specifically applies to television and radio, right? Specifically, things broadcasted over the air? Cuz uh, people already don't watch or listen to broadcasts, they're on cable or streaming or downloading podcasts or watching uploaded videos or just sharing news from websites. Do they expect this to have a big impact?

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly, I don't know the specifics.

However, I do know that the US is restricting access to several resistance telegram channels so I speculate that information through other means will face stronger censorship as the war continues.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Are they? I see the US is gathering IP addresses and phone numbers of Telegram users, but actually restricting access? How?

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Yep, it looks like this:

I found this reported in some Iranian telegram Channels. To be clear, this only affects US users that visit popular resistance channels and maybe(?) European users as well. From other countries, there are no restrictions as far as I read.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Wow, I couldn't find this at all by searching for it. Internet search is dead.

So as far as I can tell (and that means shit these days, as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't even look up the US restricting access like this), there's no actual local laws that they're violating. The app store monopolies (at the behest of the US) are simply able to dictate what content the apps are allowed to display, this is just a figleaf to hide their hands on the scale.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, I found this report(and several more) in various Resistance Telegram channels that I follow. In this case, the user was unable to see t.me/DDGeopolitics. If you are in the USA, you can try to check if you have the same message as well.

Also, this censorship is not new. In 2025, workers.org published this article regarding this: https://www.workers.org/2025/06/86197/

Many channels, ranging from @unity_of_fields to the official channels of many Palestinian, Lebanese and other resistance organizations, are blocked on the versions of Telegram downloaded from Apple and Google stores.

While the versions of Telegram downloaded from the website are still vulnerable to regional censorship — for example, the block on our old channel, @samidounnetwork, in many locations, that on RNN (@PalestineResist) in many areas, particularly in Europe and other regional blocks on Palestinian, Lebanese and Yemeni resistance organizations — they are better options than those on the App Store/Play Store for accessing important content.

Taking this into account, it wouldn't be surprising if this censorship expands to Iranian related channels.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I seem to be able to view it? I suspect it's because I'm viewing it from my browser, and it's just the apps enforcing edicts because it's not actually something being implemented by local US law.