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Brendan Carr, Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Warrior, Wastes No Time Violating Trump’s New Free Speech Executive Order
Back in November, I explained in great detail how Trump’s new FCC chair Brendan Carr was signaling loud and clear that he intended to be Trump’s top censor. This was in contrast to both his and Trump’s declaration that Carr was some sort of “free speech warrior.” Instead, he has given every indication that he’s one of the biggest threats to free speech to work in the federal government.
So it struck me as notable that one of the very first Executive Orders Trump signed was this laughable one claiming he was “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship.” As you’ll certainly recall, it has become accepted faith among the MAGA world that the Biden administration worked with private actors to create a “censorship industrial complex” to silence conservative voices online.
This was never true. As multiple studies and reports found, social media companies bent over backwards to provide more favorable rules to conservative nonsense peddlers (even as the public clamored for the platforms to take down more disinformation). And while the White House did, at times, try to persuade social media companies to improve their policies on disinformation, the companies generally ignored the White House or refused.
Back in November, I explained in great detail how Trump’s new FCC chair Brendan Carr was signaling loud and clear that he intended to be Trump’s top censor. This was in contrast to both his and Trump’s declaration that Carr was some sort of “free speech warrior.” Instead, he has given every indication that he’s one of the biggest threats to free speech to work in the federal government.
So it struck me as notable that one of the very first Executive Orders Trump signed was this laughable one claiming he was “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship.” As you’ll certainly recall, it has become accepted faith among the MAGA world that the Biden administration worked with private actors to create a “censorship industrial complex” to silence conservative voices online.
This was never true. As multiple studies and reports found, social media companies bent over backwards to provide more favorable rules to conservative nonsense peddlers (even as the public clamored for the platforms to take down more disinformation). And while the White House did, at times, try to persuade social media companies to improve their policies on disinformation, the companies generally ignored the White House or refused.