Trumps Day 1 order to outlaw state-sponsored censorship reveals how tyrannical federal government got

Within hours of his inauguration, President Trump launched a major strike on the Censorship-Industrial Complex — the first step toward fulfilling his campaign promise to dismantle and destroy a regime that conspired to silence all dissent from ruling-class orthodoxy.The opening salvo came in the form of an executive order, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” that aims to get the federal government out of the speech-policing game and deprive the censorship regime of the taxpayer dollars that are its lifeblood.The order forbids every “Federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee or agent” from using  “any Federal resources” to fund, facilitate or participate in conduct “that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen.”That a president would ever need to promulgate such a policy tells you how twisted and tyrannical our federal government had become in recent years.The order’s preamble details the sordid facts: The Biden administration “trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms,” coercing social-media companies and other third parties “to moderate, deplatform or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve.”In fact, the anti-speech skullduggery predates Biden.During Trump’s own first term, in the run-up to the 2020 election, a raft of Deep State officials groomed social-media platforms to look for and suppress The New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story, potentially — and perversely —swinging the contest against the president they supposedly served.My reporting at RealClearInvestigations revealed that these authorities also colluded with third-party cutouts to pressure social-media companies into censoring derogatory views on election integrity and the election itself.These actors developed a “whole-of-society” censorship model that the Biden administration later put on steroids to purge COVID-19 wrong...