Too many Americans who say they believe in free speech mean only their speech. The Biden administration claimed that free speech had limits, and broadly suppressed dissenting views. Donald Trump ran on a platform to end government censorship and on his first day in office issued an executive order to protect free speech, but then things went off course.

The Supreme Court has explained that with few exceptions, the “First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content” (Ashcroft v. ACLU), or because it is false (United States v. Alvarez), or because it is hateful (Matal v. Tam). The remedy is more speech that corrects the record (Whitney v. California).

Hate-filled ideologues are protected

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