🗣️ The Gutter Report: Big Tech Tried to Shut Us Down — Unmut’d Will Set Us Free

Why censorship is out of control — and why Unmut’d is the digital First Amendment

| 🔊 The official Unmut’d logo — built to break silence and amplify voices.


Social media has always been a cycle. Sconex was hot, then dead. MySpace had a run, then died. Facebook and Instagram are in that same phase now — fading into irrelevance because they lost what made them powerful: authenticity.

But today’s problem goes deeper. It’s not just that these platforms are dying — it’s that they’re killing free speech on the way down.

🚫 Censorship Gone Wild (Last 10 Years)

The last decade proves social media companies pick and choose who gets silenced. The rules aren’t clear, fair, or consistent — and the examples stack up:

  • Boosie Badazz (2020–present): Deleted from Instagram multiple times. Not for scams, not for violence — but for being Boosie. Raw, unfiltered, and too real for IG’s polished image. Millions of followers erased overnight.

  • Donald Trump (2021): The sitting President of the United States banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all at once. Big Tech flexed its power and proved it could silence even the most powerful man in the world with a single click.

  • Alex Jones (2018): One of the biggest independent media voices in America erased in a coordinated sweep by Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and Facebook — millions of viewers gone in one week.

  • Hunter Biden Laptop Story (2020): When the New York Post broke it, Twitter and Facebook blocked the story completely. People literally couldn’t share a link to one of America’s oldest newspapers. A year later, mainstream outlets admitted it was real. But by then, the truth had been delayed.

  • Jimmy Kimmel (multiple times): Even a late-night host backed by Hollywood money has had jokes censored online. If they’ll silence Jimmy, what chance does the average person have?

  • Everyday People: Nurses fired for TikToks. Activists shadowbanned for calling out injustice. Creators demonetized for content that didn’t fit vague “community guidelines.” Meanwhile, bots, scams, and porn accounts roam free.

🧨 The Real Problem

It’s not about whether you like or agree with these people. The point is this: the platforms decide who’s allowed to talk.

  • You can post porn and never get flagged.

  • You can run scams and slip through the cracks.

  • But speak your mind on the wrong topic? You’re gone.

That’s not freedom. That’s control.

🗽 The First Amendment

America was built on one principle above all: freedom of speech. The First Amendment guarantees the government can’t silence you for speaking your mind.

But Big Tech isn’t the government. They’re corporations — and they’ve turned censorship into a business model. That means the spirit of the First Amendment doesn’t live online anymore.

Unmut’d is where it comes back to life.

✍🏾 My Story — Elliott Carterr

| 🎙️ Elliott Carterr — founder of LFTG Radio and Unmut’d, reporting live from the gutter.


This isn’t theory to me. It’s personal.

I built LFTG Radio from the gutter — an independent voice for Staten Island and beyond. I reported on stories nobody else would touch. I gave platforms to people the mainstream ignored. I did it raw, unfiltered, and unapologetic.

And for that, Meta muted me. Instagram clipped my page, shadowbanned my posts, and tried to erase my work. Not because I spread lies. Not because I was scamming. But because my truth didn’t fit their polished, ad-friendly version of “community.”

That’s when I realized: my whole life has been preparing me for this. I’ve always lived to go against being silenced. Every interview, every Gutter Report, every story I told was really a brick in the foundation of something bigger — a platform where nobody can mute us again.

That’s Unmut’d.

Unmut’d isn’t just an app I want to build. It’s my mission. It’s the answer to what happened to me, to Boosie, to Trump, to Alex Jones, to Jimmy Kimmel, to the nurses, the activists, the creators, and the everyday people who were erased for speaking their truth.

If you were ever silenced, Unmut’d is your voice back.

🎤 The Kanye West Factor

| 🐐 Kanye West — a cultural icon the world has tried to mute.


You can’t talk about censorship without talking about Kanye West.

Here’s a man who has shaped music, fashion, and culture for two decades — yet the second he speaks outside the approved script, the world tries to mute him. His social media accounts suspended. His brand deals ripped up. His interviews deleted from platforms before they could even spread.

The narrative was always the same: “Kanye’s crazy.” But here’s the truth — platforms and corporations didn’t just judge his words, they controlled whether the world even got to hear them. They took the microphone out of his hand.

Unmut’d isn’t here to make Kanye “safe” or to sanitize his message. It’s here to give him — and everyone like him — the space to speak freely without an algorithm, a moderator, or a corporation deciding if it’s allowed.

Some people compare me to Kanye because I’m outspoken, controversial, and unafraid of saying what others won’t. The difference is, I’m not just fighting for my own voice. I’m building a platform to protect everybody’s.

Unmut’d is for every voice they tried to cancel, mute, or erase. From Kanye West to the everyday person with 200 followers, your words matter. Your perspective matters. And on Unmut’d, your voice won’t be buried.

🔑 Why Unmut’d is Different

Unmut’d is where the digital First Amendment lives:

  • 18+ only — grown conversations, no kid drama.

  • Free speech protected — no banning, no shadow games, no silencing real voices.

  • Boundaries where they matter — no porn, no gore, no scams.

  • Chronological feed — no algorithm deciding what you see.

  • Authenticity-first — Echoes, Circles, and Collabs built for culture and conversation.

🇺🇸 Make America Great Again?

Here’s the twist: everybody says they want to “make America great again.” But how can America be great if its people can’t even speak freely?

Unmut’d isn’t red or blue. It’s real.

It’s a platform where the First Amendment is alive again.

A place where you don’t have to choose between filth or silence.

A place where the culture runs free.

That’s how you make America great again — by giving the people their voices back.

That’s Unmut’d.

🗞️ LFTGRadio.com

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Not for clicks — for clarity.

Good morning and Godspeed.

— Elliott Carterr

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