This is news to me! Could you share an example of some censored media in the US that's available elsewhere?
You can certainly argue that this was ineffective censorship that could be evaded, but it was, in fact, censorship by the US Government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_State...
It's the same across the world, countries that routinely censor material still have their citizens evading censorship.
Also:
Analysts from Reporters Without Borders ranked the United States 57th in the world out of 180 countries in their 2025 Press Freedom Index and they gave the country a "problematic" designation.
Certain forms of speech, such as obscenity and defamation, are restricted in communications media by the government or by the industry on its own.
The GP comment asked for examples of censorship in the US. Examples were provided.
Libel isn't media that is censored in the US and available internationally.
Did senior figures in the crrent US administration successfully (temporarily) have the entire show pulled?
The US practices censorship - it's not overt, the fish can't see the water, but it's there via manufactured consent.
Returning to the actual question I addressed:
> Could you share an example of some censored media in the US that's available elsewhere?
Wikileaks is a clear example of material censorered by the US Government that was restricted from common US employees despite appearing in newspapers and not being restricted from the eyes of other peer military and goverment personal in many other countries.
It might be that our system's reliance on norms has been exposed as a fatal flaw. On the other hand, the executive is only wielding its discretionary powers, so the current campaign of censorship may only last this term. We haven't put up a great firewall. We haven't nationalized news media.
The Wikileaks thing is so minimal that if you wanted to provide examples of US censorship you should have said CSAM and been done with it. The site was not blocked in the US. It didn't affect anyone but federal employees and clearance holders. No one could go to prison for viewing the leaked documents. And wikileaks wasn't arbitrarily targeted, there is a longstanding, opt-in employment policy that classification and need to know apply even to spillages.
To support your original claim - when I was in the military, we were explicitly forbidden to look at anything Snowden leaked as it was still classified and would be a violation of our clearances as we did not have either the appropriate level (e.g., TS-SCI) or need to know. Kind of understandable, but still.
It was easily the best way of clearing the office for some peace - mention the front page of the newspaper and everybody would lock their laptops, pick up their papers and walk.
From what I can gather the fact you know something you shouldn't, even though it's in the national news, it causes problems when renewing your clearances, so...