This is one of the most important executive orders since Trump took power on January 20, 2025:

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.

So, the next time anyone uses the 3 highlighted words, be they in America or elsewhere, know that they are purely trying to silence your free speech because you dared to challenge their narrative.

UK’s “progressive” Labour Party has long detested both pubs and free speech. With one motion, they are aiming to eliminate both! Have you any doubt, that Trudeau’s successors are watching this with much anticipation that they’ll be able to do the same?!

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— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) January 7, 2025

Being a Canadian living in America, I want to learn more about my adopted homeland, so I recently purchased The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings. It begins with the Silence Dogood letters, which were written by Benjamin Franklin in 1722, at the young age of 17.  Using this pseudonym, he wrote 14 letters, which were published in the New-England Courant, a newspaper published by his older brother, James.

Letter #8 is particularly interesting because it deals with the subject of Free Speech.  In the letter, he mostly quotes an article published two years earlier in the London Journal.  You can read the entire letter, but here is a critical portion:

Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it he does not hurt or countroul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, and the only Bounds it ought to know.

This sacred Privilege is so essential to free Governments, that the Security of Property, and the Freedom of Speech always go together; and in those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own.

Fast forward 300 years, and we find scoundrels like John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Keir Starmer, Justin Trudeau and his fellow Liberals, and assorted government officials throughout the EU, all openly insisting that Free Speech be eliminated.

Make no mistake, we have entered a Very Dark Age, where there is a concerted effort by powerful people to silence, punish, and imprison anyone who dares speak out against their despicable policies and actions.  The next time you hear anyone speak of misinformation or disinformation or “hateful speech”, know that the motivations behind their words lie somewhere between malicious and pure evil.