Government Officials Who Engaged In Censorship Must Be Held Accountable

It’s one thing to hear the alarm go off … and another to roll out of bed and hit the ground running. After several years of increasing revelations about the growing complex of private enterprises, non-profit organizations, and governments — federal and state — that have been censoring Americans’ speech, it’s refreshing to see political leadership that throws back the covers and confronts the danger head-on.

Our newly re-elected president, to his credit, seems clear-eyed on what we’re facing. “If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country — it’s as simple as that,” now President Donald Trump told the nation shortly after the November election. “If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple … like dominoes.”

Few people in the public eye have as much reason as the president to take seriously the blunt instrument of political censorship being wielded against all Americans by the federal government, its blue state allies, and their private enterprise proxies. Even fewer are in so ideal a position to do something about that threat.

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