Popular influencer and comic strip creator Scott Adams repeatedly made a strong stand for First Amendment rights.
Adams passed away on Tuesday, his ex-wife Shelley Miles confirmed in a video message posted to X in place of his usual daily show. While Adams is most famous for his creation of the office satire comic “Dilbert” and his podcast Coffee with Scott Adams, he was also consistently an advocate for free speech rights.
Adams praised those who practiced or supported free speech while simultaneously strongly condemning the censorship industrial complex under the Biden administration. In October 2023, for example, Adams angrily posted on X, “Free speech is no longer a feature of America. I can't keep pretending. It feels absurd.”
A month later, he mourned, “Free speech has entered the dustbin of history. We are only allowed to agree with the Narrative or say things that will have no impact, like the opinion you are reading now.” in August 2024, Adams reacted to reports of the Biden administration paying grants to groups like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index to block ad revenue for right-leaning sites by emphasizing that the government was suppressing free speech.
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But Adams did not merely critique the rising and expanding censorship complex that included social media companies, government officials, and private entities as revealed in the Twitter Files, MRC’s 57 censorship initiatives study, and more.
Adams also brought attention to the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the censorship complex.
For instance, in April 2025, Adams promoted President Donald Trump‘s declassification of documents exposing how the previous administration spied on and suppressed free speech using a justification of targeting domestic terrorism. “Biden tried to end free speech in America. There's no other way to interpret the record,” Adams commented. Adams supported Donald Trump for years, it seems partly because of Trump‘s policies on censorship.
Furthermore, Adams celebrated Mark Zuckerberg‘s announcement of an overhaul for Meta platforms’ censorship policies after Donald Trump came into office last January. Adams endorsed Zuckerberg‘s decision to make fact-checking on Facebook and other Meta platforms more like X. “Business-wise, he needs the US government to pressure other nations to stop censoring. No other way,” said Adams, analyzing Zuckerberg’s possible motives. “Facebook has been crippled by their own biased fact-checkers.”
Adams also helped expose online censorship. For example, in January 2025, he reposted screenshots on X from podcaster and physician Dr. Drew Pinsky that showed that Google-owned YouTube threatened to de-platform Drew unless he underwent “Policy training” and refrained from posting alleged “medical misinformation” for 90 days. “Wow. Free speech and Google do not mix,” Adams marveled.
Free speech advocates lost a staunch ally with Adams’ death.
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