The Biden Administration Waged War on Free Speech With 57 Censorship Initiatives

Biden’s Out of Office, But Many of His Censorship Initiatives Are Still in Effect. The MRC Is Pushing for Leaders in Washington to End Them.

On day one, President Donald Trump signed the “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship” executive order to end Biden-era censorship and restore free speech.

To help Trump effectuate his order, the MRC created the roadmap — a comprehensive report on Biden’s 57 censorship initiatives across 93 federal agencies. Below is MRC’s record of the progress made toward restoring free speech …

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE

Full Progress Breakdown by Initiative

Free Speech Restored
In Progress
In The Queue

1. The Framework for Censorship
2. Collusion with the Counter Disinformation Unit
3. The Elimination of the Fair Access Rule
4. Switchboarding
5. The Convergence Accelerator
6. The Disinformation Governance Board
7. The Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence
8. The AI Speech Codes
9. The Attack on Antitrust
10. INCAS
11. The NewsGuard & GDI Grants
12. The NDAA Signing Statement
13. The USAGM – Poynter Partnership
14. The Poynter Wannabes
15. Courageous RI
16. Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention
17. Resilient Media
18. The $16 Million Media Literacy Grant
19. The COVID-19 Censorship Contracts
20. The COVID-19 Censorship Orders
21. The Book Ban
22. The Targeting of Trader Joe’s
23. The Election Integrity Partnership
24. X Corp v. United States
25. The Enemies List
26. The Military’s Targeting of Political Opposition
27. The NSBA School Board Memo
28. Quiet Skies
29. Hurricane Helene
30. The Night Fury Fallout
31. The Industry Working Groups
32. The FBI – Big Tech Partnership
33. The Speech Prosecutions
34. Lobbying the Supreme Court
35. The Targeted Prosecutions
36. The Fake Domestic Terror Threat
37. The FEC’s Blessing of Big Tech Censorship & Election Interference
38. The Censoring of Ted Cruz
39. The Attack on Religious Speech
40. The Rewriting of the First Amendment
41. The Censorship of Christians
42. The Trust & Safety Team
43. The Censorship of Blockchain-based Speech
44. The NASDAQ Compelled Speech
45. The Climate Disclosure Rule
46. The Elimination of Title IX Dispute Free Speech Protections
47. The Censorship for Big Labor
48. The Perversion of Sec. 230
49. The FCC Censorship of Political Speech
50. The Digital Equity Order
51. The Soros Shortcut
52. The NLRB’s Censorship of Elon Musk
53. The NLRB’s SpaceX / Twitter Censorship
54. The Targeting of Elon Musk
55. The Refusal to Investigate Censorship
56. The GEC Deception
57. The Shadow Government for Censorship

Progress Breakdown

Free Speech Restored (14)
In Progress (29)
In The Queue (14)