President Donald Trump’s administration has taken action on two Biden-era initiatives revealed by MRC Free Speech America to have been targeting Americans’ constitutionally protected speech.
MRC Free Speech America released a study on March 13 exposing 57 Biden administration censorship initiatives. Under the Biden administration, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a compelled speech rule requiring companies to suppress employees’ speech that ran afoul of leftist fearmongering about climate change (Initiative #45). The Biden Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), furthermore, awarded a grant to the University of Washington to create virtual “escape rooms” to push censorship (Initiative #17).
But no more. On March 14, Trump signed an executive order taking an ax to the IMLS workforce, and on March 28, Trump’s SEC voted to stop defending the Biden-era climate change disclosure rule.
Read the full blog on MRC Free Speech America.