Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jack Hunter
“The Trump administration framing the suppression of free speech as a matter of non-citizens’ rights vs. those of citizens is a cheap way of ignoring the First Amendment, no different than the Biden administration holding up the supposed threats of ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ in the name of doing the same. Republicans and Democrats have created spectres supposedly so threatening to convince enough people that the First Amendment no longer applies. Bullshit. So many Republicans right now argue that criticizing Israel’s government is inherently anti-semitic, which is about as ridiculous as arguing that every conservative talk host who criticizes the United States government is anti-American. And if they genuinely were anti-semitic, that’s still protected by the First Amendment. ‘Hate speech’ is protected speech. Do Trump Republicans now agree with Biden-Harris Democrats like Tim Walz that there are no First Amendment protections for hate speech? Apparently they do.” (04/30/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/on-free-speech-trumps-as-bad-as-biden