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The secretary of state, who aims to "liberate American speech," nevertheless wants to deport U.S. residents for expressing opinions that offend him.
Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2025 5:35 PM
Writing in The Federalist this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio brags that he is protecting freedom of speech by ending his department's misbegotten crusade against "disinformation." Yet Rubio is simultaneously undermining freedom of speech by targeting anti-Israel activists for deportation because he deems their opinions harmful to U.S. foreign policy interests. More generally, Rubio's ringing defense of First Amendment rights is hard to take seriously given all the ways his boss has sought to punish people for speech that offends him, whether through deportation, regulation, litigation, criminal investigations, or executive decrees targeting disfavored lawyers and journalists.
https://reason.com/2025/04/18/marco-rubio-brags-about-defending-freedom-of-speech-while-eagerly-undermining-it/
When anyone in the criminal Nazi filth Trump regime talks about "free speech," it is only to suppress it.
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