A legacy media outlet op-ed is highlighting the good news: “A speech-regulation industry that was booming under Biden has gone bust under Trump,” as free speech advocate and attorney Jonathan Turley put it.
Under the Biden administration, “disinformation experts,” or academic and tech workers who identified speech they wanted to be censored, received significant amounts of cash. Business was booming — until the Trump administration took over in January and a rapid revolution took place, legal expert Jonathan Turley wrote for The Hill. He declared that many of these so-called experts are now unemployed and looking for a new field of operations overseas in Europe.
Turley wrote, “President Trump’s election has brought about mass layoffs among federal employees and contractors.” And after four years of “seeping up billions in taxpayer funds to research, target and combat those accused of misinformation,” many of these would-be censors now find themselves unemployed following the new free speech policies of the Trump administration. But not all will go quietly, as Turley noted. There are those like the infamous censor Nina Jankowicz, briefly head of the now defunct federal Disinformation Governance Board, who went on to become a foreign agent with the anti-free speech UK Centre for Information Resilience and is now writing anti-free speech pieces for the anti-Trump Bulwark.
The European Union, meanwhile, is becoming more anti-free speech. Germany, for instance, was just featured on “60 Minutes” for raiding homes and arresting individuals for posting content deemed “hateful” or “racist” online. Turley noted the campaign began with targeting Nazi symbols and ended with criminalizing satire. Turley also cited the U.K. and France as cracking down on speech, and praised U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s recent remarks in Munich criticizing them.
“For the free speech community, Vance went into the belly of the beast and denounced the anti-free-speech movement in the heart of Europe,” Turley explained. “Free speech has been in free-fall in Europe for decades.”
In America, however, since Trump’s first day in office in which he issued an executive order ending government coordination to silence Americans’ speech, the situation has changed. Even Meta has announced reforms following Trump’s election.
In fact, the federal agencies exposed by the landmark Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit, The Twitter Files and other important reports for having funded and coordinated the “censorship of groups and individuals with opposing views, even objecting to jokes on the internet,” are now under major overhaul, Turley wrote. The First Amendment is once again honored in the USA, and would-be censors will have to find other jobs.
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