> This can be seen as a 4D chess move by CBS.

It isn't. CBS is owned by the Ellisons, who are big Trump supporters. They are absolutely complicit in attempts to quash dissenting voices.

You're right that the Streisand effect is in play here, but it's not 4D chess. It's garden-variety incompetence, because the policy makers in the government are too old to see anything other than broadcast TV as the most valuable medium.

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mindslight 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Comedians have a knack for succinctly expressing the truth:

> "Let's just call this what it is: Donald Trump's administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV," Colbert joked.

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tialaramex an hour ago | parent [-]

Technically doesn't Trump also spend a lot of time golfing, and attending events where people praise Trump - admittedly for broadcast on TV but not necessarily while watching TV?

I see that it's become harder to track because the White House doesn't disclose what he's doing as much, but yeah, lots of golf still.

	▲	mindslight 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, jokes are often technically incorrect while performing a directionally-correct summation of the matter. But also, the few times I've been unfortunate enough to have to go to mega golf venues, the clubhouses generally have prominent TVs all over the place. So there is quite the demographic overlap.