Trump Launches Missile at Censorship-Industrial Complex
First-day executive order aims to starve speech police of personnel, funding -- and to bring to justice those who assaulted the First Amendment
Trump’s Day 1 order to outlaw state-sponsored censorship reveals how tyrannical federal government got
Within hours of his inauguration, President Trump launched a major strike on the Censorship-Industrial Complex — the first step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to dismantle and destroy a regime that conspired to silence all dissent from ruling-class orthodoxy.
The opening salvo came in the form of an executive order, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” that aims to get the federal government out of the speech-policing game and deprive the censorship regime of the taxpayer dollars that are its lifeblood.
It also holds holds the key to deterring such behavior going forward by calling for a government-wide investigation into fed-led censorship under the Biden administration, which could result in “remedial actions” — that is, justice for the speech police, a critical deterrent to future assaults on the First Amendment.
I’ve got the story in a new piece at the New York Post, foreshadowed by my reporting at RealClearInvestigations just two weeks prior.