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![The Trump administration is attacking free speech, say the media and Democrats. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said, “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech. And there’s no place [for it], especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie.” Fear of the Trump administration led ABC to abandon late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel yesterday, said progressives. Kimmel had claimed the man who assassinated conservative leader Charlie Kirk was “MAGA.” Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which regulates broadcast networks, said, in response, “This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney [ABC’s owner]. We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel, or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” However, prominent Trump supporters condemned Bondi’s remarks en masse, near-instantaneously, and she backtracked the next day, saying, “If you want to be a hateful person and simply say hateful things, that is your right to do so.” As for Carr, he dismissed the idea that his words played a significant role in ABC’s decision, telling Public, “the reporting is that Disney itself had their own concerns about the programming. A lot of folks want to point fingers here at convenient targets because they don’t want to see or deal with the broader market trends. Late night ratings are way down.” And yet it is difficult to believe that Carr’s remarks had no influence. It is reasonable to think that Nexstar may have feared that the FCC wouldn’t approve its acquisition of Tegna, which operates 64 stations in 51 markets, if it had allowed Kimmel’s show to continue. That purchase requires the FCC to allow Nexstar to go beyond current limits on broadcast station ownership. And, notes the Journal, Carr’s remarks may have indirectly impacted Disney: “Executives also discussed staff safety, including threatening emails staff on Kimmel’s show had received after Carr’s remarks and the posting of some of their personal information online, the people said.” The FCC repealed the “fairness doctrine” in 1987, since it required too much government regulation of content, and the FCC’s “public interest” power is not a license to police programs like Kimmel. Indeed, the FCC’s mandate today is largely structural with narrow content exceptions (e.g., indecency, children’s programming, and political advertising). As such, Carr’s remarks were “jawboning,” a term that refers to speech or implied threats by government officials to pressure private parties into actions that officials cannot legally mandate. Such jawboning can be a form of indirect censorship. President Biden engaged in similar pressure tactics when he publicly said social media companies were “killing people” by not removing Covid “misinformation.” Biden officials also invoked Section 230 to coerce platforms into greater censorship, and internal Facebook emails revealed that the company was worried about failing to secure a data deal with Europe if it did not comply with the administration’s censorship demands. The Left’s complaints about censorship are made in particularly bad faith, given its role in defending the Biden administration’s coercive jawboning and the resulting mass censorship during Covid. The Left also normalized “cancellations,” calling for countless public figures and private individuals to be deplatformed and fired for causing offense. In 2018, Kimmel mocked Roseanne Barr after ABC canceled her show after she posted an offensive tweet about a black former Obama administration official. The people decrying what Bondi and Carr said are the same ones who demanded sweeping government censorship of social media platforms in the guise of combating “misinformation” and “hate speech” in 2020 and 2021. Consider Barack Obama, who criticized Carr’s remarks. It was Obama’s people at the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, National Science Foundation, DOD, and CIA who put in place the Censorship Industrial Complex between 2016 and 2024. And it was Obama who gave a 2022 speech at Stanford laying out a vision for government “regulation” of social media platforms one week before DHS launched its “Disinformation Governance Board.” The Democrat-supported Censorship Industrial Complex was and remains, in Europe and elsewhere, a far greater threat to free speech than the angry remarks of Trump and Carr, as inappropriate and as unhelpful as they were. The Complex was embedded in the government, including the Intelligence Community, and operated secretly to manipulate information, public opinion, and “whole narratives.” New York Times columnist David French, who criticized the Trump administration for censorship, defended government censorship in the past as “correcting misinformation” and pointed to the First Amendment rights of government employees. It’s important to remember the context we are in. A little over one week has passed since an individual, who appears to be a Left-wing romantic partner of a trans-identified male, assassinated a major conservative leader, Charlie Kirk. Assassination is the ultimate form of censorship. And Kirk was a communications and organizing prodigy who many on the Right viewed as future Republican presidential material. Kirk’s killing comes after 10 years of the Left, broadly defined to include the media, Democrats, and the progressive NGO industry, dehumanizing Republicans. As such, many, if not most, on the Right hold the Left responsible for the killing of one of its most promising leaders, who also happened to be a family man and Christian. When it comes to public opinion, five times more people on the Left justify violence than those on the Right. A YouGov survey conducted after Kirk’s assassination found that 25% of people who describe themselves as “very liberal” and 17% who describe themselves as “liberal” say that it is sometimes justified to resort to violence to achieve political goals. Only 3% of people who describe themselves as “very conservative” and 6% of people who describe themselves as “conservative” said the same thing. A separate poll earlier this year found that 55% of people who identify as left of center say that it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Trump. But it is short-sighted for the Trump administration to do and say things that undermine its ability to demand free speech abroad, and hold the Left accountable at home. The Trump administration has rightly raised the alarm about censorship in Europe and Brazil of American social media platforms, and often of Americans. Carr’s remarks about the “easy way or the hard way” undercut the administration’s free speech diplomacy.... Please subscribe now to support Public's defense of free speech, read the rest of the article, and watch the full video!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1969405155906109688/amplify_video_thumb/1969402761495396353/img/L0qXIX_dWFDlzl06.jpg)
![Scott Jennings sends CNN panel spiraling with one sentence after a leftist is caught on tape trying to blow up an ICE facility. Keith Boykin does what all Democrats do: blame Trump for their own mess. Watch how hysterical he gets when Jennings points it out. BOYKIN: "10 people have been killed by ICE since this year! ... That didn't happen under Biden..." JENNINGS: "Let me make sure I understand. This deranged, anti-ICE leftist tries to blow up the federal office in New York today, and that's Donald Trump's fault. Joe Biden—" [Table erupts] BOYKIN: "Nobody said that." JENNINGS: "You just gave a long speech about it." BOYKIN: "Never said that. You didn't listen to a word I said, did you? No one said that." JENNINGS: "Joe Biden doesn't enforce immigration laws and that's Donald Trump's fault. I'm trying to identify the end of the choose your own adventure book where it doesn't end with 'It’s Donald Trump's fault.'" "The border is closed. Not a single new law was passed. The only difference is the feds are enforcing long-standing existing law. And you have Democrats now demonizing the people enforcing it. And you have people like this lunatic showing up trying to blow up the federal building." BOYKIN: "Nobody's supporting this guy…"](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2079422675152236553/amplify_video_thumb/2079422142500765696/img/AZB8v4N9rpswzC2E.jpg)
![The September 2022 destruction of three of the four Nord Stream natural gas pipelines from Russia to Germany was one of the greatest acts of sabotage in modern history, more significant in many ways than US attacks on German infrastructure during World War II. Afterward, the Biden administration led many to believe that Russia blew up its own pipeline. The claim was disinformation, in that the Biden Administration officials who implied Russia had blown up its pipelines knew at the time that Ukrainians had, in fact, carried out the operation. A court in Germany last week charged a former Ukrainian army officer with taking part. “I spoke to senior people at the time [in] the National Security Council — the link between the White House and the CIA — and of course they knew,” said Bojan Pancevski, author of The Nord Stream Conspiracy and the Wall Street Journal’s Chief European Political Correspondent. “[William] Burns, who was head of the CIA at the time when the pipelines exploded, was notified about the intelligence, the early intelligence in June or May before the attack happened.” Pancevski said that Administration officials “wouldn’t say, ‘Look, we have evidence it was Russia because ABC.’ They would say, ‘Look, isn’t it obvious?’ and ‘We don’t have evidence, but isn’t it obvious?’ That sort of insinuation, innuendos.” At the same time, he said, the officials clearly aimed to deceive reporters and the public. “That’s how these briefings work — they’re giving you pointers. They’re, pointing you in a direction. So I think that it’s fair to say that they were pointing people in the wrong direction while knowing that the actual suspicion is totally different.” In that way, what the Biden administration did was very similar to what 51 former Intelligence Community officials did when they spread disinformation about the Hunter Biden laptop, saying that it “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” In both cases, the officials made claims that would allow them, in the future, to be accused simply of having been mistaken, rather than of having deliberately deceived the public. Biden himself misled the public by only fingering Russia indirectly. “It was a deliberate act of sabotage and the Russians are pumping out disinformation and lies,” Biden said. Pancevski further added that the Biden administration, by lifting sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump in 2019 on Nord Stream, signaled to Putin that the US would not back Ukraine if Russia invaded. “A lot of the media interpreted that as a gesture towards Germany,” said Pancevski, “as ‘Oh, here’s a gesture for our great ally, Germany.’ No, the gesture was towards Putin to say, ‘Look, you can have your pipeline. And if you are a good boy — cooperate — we will pivot to Asia. We will focus our energies on China, which is the actual rival here.’...Essentially what they said [was], ‘We’re pivoting to China. Here’s the pipeline. Let’s not generate tensions between each other. You can trade with energy and just don’t get aggressive.’” Pancevski is hardly a Republican partisan. He is harshly critical of Trump’s recent military action against Iran, arguing that it significantly undermined his credibility in deterring foreign threats. “The power of deterrence he had is lost because everyone now knows that you just have to stick it out for two weeks and it’s over. America will capitulate.” And Pancevski says it was Putin’s desire for territorial expansion, far more than feeling threatened by NATO, as University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer and many MAGA Republicans believe, that led him to invade Ukraine. “Yes, the push to get Ukraine and Georgia into NATO did play a negative role in the relationship between the United States and Russia and ultimately in what happened in Ukraine and Georgia,” Pancevski says. But, he added, “the Putin presidency is that of restoration… He’s thinking about history. He’s thinking like Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, or Catherine the Great. He wants to expand the empire, fortify the empire.” Today, in retrospect, it seems obvious that it was in Ukraine’s interest to blow up Nord Stream. It needed Germany’s continued support for the war effort against Russia and understandably feared that its economic dependency on cheap Russian gas would weaken Germany’s resolve. And Pancevski’s book is based on multiple sources, including the Ukrainians who carried out the sabotage and German law enforcement. But ever since the sabotage, almost everyone has either blamed the United States or Russia. The disinformation around who bombed the pipeline is just the tip of the iceberg of the bad thinking surrounding the tragic war in Ukraine, which shows no sign of ending any time soon. Pancevki’s book, which reads as a thrilling spy adventure, is important in addressing all of the major questions surrounding the sabotage, including why few people thought Ukraine did it, why the Biden administration lifted Trump’s sanctions on Nord Stream, and why Germany allowed itself to get so dependent on Russian energy in the first place.... Please subscribe now to support Public's award-winning journalism, to read the rest of the article, and to watch the full video!](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2073135761143312679/amplify_video_thumb/2073133982645133312/img/H19QdkzVxEMOFMoe.jpg)
