Trump’s Selective War on Censorship

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image People using their cellphones while in transit, September 2023. © 2023 Francis Joseph Dean/Dean Pictures/Reuters The Trump administration is framing its new forthcoming online portal, freedom.gov, as a bold defense of free expression. According to Reuters, the goal is to help users bypass European content restrictions and “counter censorship” in Europe and “elsewhere.”But the European rules freedom.gov wants to help people circumvent are not about censorship at all.Europe’s regulatory framework is not an authoritarian speech regime. Rather, it is an…

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