Yeah, Noam Chomsky is openly siding with Russia’s invasion, isn’t he? “A Stronger NATO is the last thing we need” he said.

Yeah. He went off the deep end once he got elderly and his viewpoint of the world ossified. It doesn't invalidate his earlier scholarship, though.

(Also, his support for Russia is overblown by the disinfo machine. Mostly what he's saying in things that I have read is that NATO and the West have done ten times worse than Russia is doing in Ukraine right now, so the freakout is a bunch of hypocrisy, which is of course completely accurate. The disinfo likes to spin it like he's saying Russia is the good guys, which isn't at all what he's saying. But yes, I also think he's missing the central point in Ukraine because it doesn't fit with how he likes to look at things.)

Even then, he’s been a prominent figure and part of the available media in the USA for a very long time, so clearly an example of not being censored.

Well... the US doesn't have state-sponsored censorship like most socialist countries. That part is true. My point, and I think the OOP cartoon's point, is that because our media is capitalist, it was more or less impossible before non-big-business media developed out of the internet for certain messages to get out. I do think that's a fair point. Just the fact that one academic was able to get one counterculture message out (and generally be regarded by 100% of the external political spectrum as a terrorist as a result) doesn't invalidate that to me.