"You made a name for yourself as an opponent of the Biden censorship regime. That was a well-financed, government-backed effort to control the information system, to censor dissidents of official orthodoxies around COVID's origins and the government responses to it, the war in Ukraine, Hunter Biden's laptop, and much more than that. So, it's fair to say that you're not a fan of the Democratic Party or its censorious behavior. You must have been very excited then, when Trump announced in January that he was going to restore free speech. He made this big executive order. Well, it's been about ten months since that happened. How are you feeling about this free speech restoration?"
"No, it's worse. It's worse than anything Biden did. I think that was pretty evident early on. So, along with that executive order, which I was slightly optimistic about, he signed another executive order basically saying that the administration would find ways to remove people from the country if they don't like Israel. I was very concerned when I saw that. Given what some members of his administration had been saying along those lines, I thought, "Oh, what they're gonna do is start deporting people who are critical of Israel," which then started happening in March. It began with"
Civil libertarians expected the censorship apparatus built under the prior administration to be dismantled after promises to restore free speech, but outcomes disappointed those hopes. Advocacy and legal work now focus on new restrictions and enforcement actions that target critics of Israel and broad content deemed objectionable without clear definitions. A major lawsuit challenges a state law restricting "antisemitic" speech without defining the term. Deportations and removal efforts for critics began in March, and concerns persist about coordinated, government-linked efforts to control information and silence dissent on multiple political issues.
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