David Marcus: Shocking Report Reveals Need to Drive Stake Through Heart of Biden’s Censorship Regime
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If a Democrat wins back the White House, it could all come right back
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Published March 13, 2025 11:07am EDT



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Incoming Homeland Security Director Stephen Miller discusses the importance of promoting free speech on social media on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

It feels more like two years than two months that the  has been in power, and, by extension, the dithering and shambolic Biden administration seems ancient history. But a new study from the  (MRC) detailing the widespread censorship of Americans by former President Joe Biden is a sobering reminder of how close we recently came to losing our most basic freedom.

The shocking report exposes no fewer than 57 initiatives by the Biden White House to censor the speech of American citizens. These initiatives spanned an incredible 93 separate government agencies.



There were more subtle efforts involving policies and rule-making. The State Department under Secretary Antony Blinken signed an agreement with over 20 nations pledging greater censorship online, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried to establish a censorship operation chillingly named the "Disinformation Governance Board."

> President Trump can sign executive orders until we run out of paper or Sharpies, but in the long run, only congressional action can secure free speech, not only now, but for our coming generations.

Hear, hear.



The fact of the matter is that President Trump can sign executive orders until we run out of paper or Sharpies, but in the long run, only congressional action can secure free speech, not only now, but for our coming generations.

The election of Trump and a Republican Congress is a reprieve to the assault on free speech that Democrats have waged for years. But if over the next two years Republicans fail to write clearly in stone new protections for speech, the reprieve will have been wasted.



There is a natural desire to all but forget that the Biden administration ever happened. It's a bit like COVID in that way. But in both cases, it is vital that we do not forget, and that we fix the loopholes and uncertainties that allowed both to throttle our free speech.

Have no doubt that those inside and outside the Biden administration who wish to censor you have not given up. They are simply regrouping for another charge, another chance to censor. Now is the time for champions of speech to build the defenses that can withstand that inevitable charge.



David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia and the author of "."

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