Free Speech

Under the First Amendment, a political campaign has a free speech right to express itself and individuals have a free speech right to express themselves by donating to it. This is because a campaign is not a piggy bank for the candidate, but…

The Biden administration repeatedly called on the U.S. Supreme Court to choose censorship and discrimination over the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.  

An MRC report detailed how, under President Joe Biden, the Office of the Solicitor General launched a four-year long campaign to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment so it would instead protect censorship and squash speech.

The Biden administration’s efforts to censor religious speech were not limited to guidance letters and lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court. The administration also deployed more direct, immediate methods to silence Christians.  

Under President Joe Biden and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the Census Bureau’s Trust & Safety Team focused on identifying and censoring speech the Commerce Department claimed was mis- or dis-information.

Blockchain-based speech offers exciting opportunities for new communication networks.

Most censorship victims are simply silenced. The most egregious manifestations of censorship, though, require others to declare something they do not wish to say. Thankfully, our Constitution prevents such censorship. As the U.S. Supreme Court…

Chairman Gary Gensler’s Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a compelled speech rule that simultaneously threatened companies with massive liability if they permitted speech critical of the left’s position on climate change and…

The Biden administration dismantled the free speech protections President Donald Trump’s Department of Education had instituted. 

President Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed longstanding rules to censor private speech critical of Big Labor.  

President Joe Biden and his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) acted to transform a law that protected free speech into a law that assaulted it.  

Despite having no authority to regulate such matters, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) inserted itself into the heat of the 2024 election when it launched rulemaking to regulate political speech. 

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a sweeping digital equity order giving itself enormous power to coerce and censor free speech.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) fast-tracked Soros Fund Management’s acquisition of radio behemoth Audacy, which owns the second largest number of broadcast radio stations in the United States. Soros Fund Management is controlled by…

President Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a “speech-deletion order” to censor criticism of Biden’s Big Labor ally.

Futurist and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is the owner of aerospace firm SpaceX, purchased the social media platform Twitter (now X) and began using it to advocate for greater free speech rights. A group of SpaceX employees began to circulate…

After businessman and futurist Elon Musk purchased Twitter, renamed it X and declared it a haven for “free speech,” the NLRB tried to censor his actions directly (see Initiative #53). Other Biden administration agencies tried a different tact:…

As this report has detailed, the Biden censorship initiatives were vast, varied and spanned dozens upon dozens of government bureaus and agencies. The Murthy v. Missouri litigation alone provided 162 pages of formal documentation of censorship…

In the lame duck period before Biden left office, his administration acted in contravention of Congress to hide career bureaucrats doing censorship work in various sub-cabinet agencies. This means that while Biden is gone, his censorship…

Unfortunately, the Biden administration was at least partly successful in its effort to get courts to rewrite the First Amendment (see Initiative #40). In Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court aggressively limited censorship victims’…