"Since Kirk's death, the president and his top team have: forced a private media company to suspend late-night TV star Jimmy Kimmel for inaccurate comments he made about Kirk's suspected shooter; threatened other TV networks with losing their licences should they say things Trump doesn't like; vowed to prosecute hate speech that is fully protected under the first amendment; declared antifa a terrorist organisation in an indiscriminate attack on political ideology; and told journalists covering the Pentagon that they will have their access revoked unless they agree to restrictions on their reporting."
"On 20 January, hours after he had been sworn in as 47th president, Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and applied his distinctive signature to executive order 14149 Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. The order pronounced that government censorship of speech was intolerable in a free society. It promised that under Trump's watch, no federal official would engage in any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen."
Within two weeks after Charlie Kirk's killing, the president and his top team took multiple actions that constrained speech and press freedoms. They pressured a private media company to suspend late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over inaccurate comments; threatened television networks with license revocation for statements the president disliked; vowed to prosecute forms of hate speech protected by the First Amendment; designated antifa as a terrorist organisation; and conditioned Pentagon press access on agreement to reporting restrictions. Earlier, the president had signed executive order 14149 Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship, which declared government censorship intolerable and promised that no federal official would unconstitutionally abridge free speech.
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