The U.S. State Department will now classify censorship as a violation of human rights.
The State Department declared free speech a recognized human right in an X post on Monday. The department will now identify countries that perpetuate “destructive ideologies” in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. The State Department affirmed in its X post that “President Trump will not allow the mutilation of children, attacks on free speech, and racially discriminatory practices to go unchecked.”
The State Department’s post further noted that the annual report will now evaluate whether countries tolerate human rights abuses like “arrests for ‘hate speech,’” “government-funded abortions,” and “mass migration facilitation.”
The department’s principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott told The Daily Signal, “In recent years, new destructive ideologies have given safe harbor to human rights violations.”
He added, “[t]he Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked. We are saying enough is enough.”
In fact, the Trump administration has prioritized fighting censorship from the president’s day-one executive order banning government censorship coordination efforts moving forward. Secretary of State Rubio has also been instrumental in implementing the free speech agenda, by firing hundreds of government censors, shutting down USAID, cutting off the multinational censorship network and ending numerous censorship grants, Rubio has championed free speech.
In contrast, the Biden administration orchestrated mass censorship as MRC exposed in its bombshell report uncovering the Biden administration’s 57 censorship initiatives across 93 federal agencies.
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