A Trump Executive Order Could End The Government-Censorship Complex

President Donald Trump ordered an end to “federal censorship” on his first day in office — potentially closing the door on the government-censorship complex.

“Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens,” the order reads. “Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.”

Trump signed the order, Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship, Monday night in front of a crowd at Capital One Arena. This was one of his first actions after returning to office.

“The previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve,” the order reads. . .

The federal government has a censorship hub — the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). CISA worked with “Zuckbucks” groups in 2020 and targeted election speech it deemed “mis-, dis-, and malinformation.” (Read more from “A Trump Executive Order Could End The Government-Censorship Complex” HERE)

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