The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason.
If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate.
I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"
Good for him. Free speech is crucial to freedom.
Democrats, by contrast, had been eagerly censoring. During COVID-19, they threatened social media companies, ordering them to censor the internet.
"They are directly speaking to millions!" complained Kamala Harris, "without any level of oversight, and that has to stop!"
Fortunately, once Trump was reelected, he told his staff: "Stop all government censorship."
Hooray!
But now that Trump's president, and getting lots of criticism from the media, he's started