In a landmark legal settlement, the US administration led by Donald Trump has officially buried the extensive censorship and repression apparatus of the Biden era. For ten years, the US State Department is now strictly prohibited from silencing critical media or funding so-called ‘fact-checkers’. Looking at this revolutionary change, it has to be said in no uncertain terms: today, only Donald Trump and the Republicans will save the West from sliding into totalitarian censorship madness.

What happened at the US State Department during Joe Biden’s administration was reminiscent of George Orwell’s darkest visions. With millions of taxpayer dollars, a veritable Ministry of Truth was set up to ruthlessly remove unwelcome voices, conservatives and critical journalists from the web. The State of Texas and the conservative newspapers Daily Wire and The Federalist brought a lawsuit against this extreme attack on the First Amendment of the Constitution. They accused the Department of state-sponsored censorship.

The new Trump administration has now acted in the spirit of freedom and accepted a historic agreement. The terms are an earthquake for the globalist censorship industry: for an entire decade – until the end of January 2036 – the State Department is strictly prohibited from using, promoting or even recommending digital technologies if they serve to suppress or stigmatise free speech expression through so-called “fact-checking”. The government must now report to the plaintiffs annually that this agreement is being strictly enforced.

At the centre of the scandal was the now infamous Global Engagement Center (GEC), which operated directly under the State Department. In the settlement, the Trump administration made clear how ruthlessly its Democratic predecessors had acted: the GEC was used as a weapon to target publications like the Daily Wire and The Federalist – as well as countless other alternative media outlets – in the eyes of advertisers. The malicious aim was to deprive critical media outlets of their economic lifeline.

To this end, the Biden administration funnelled huge sums of money to dubious organisations such as the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) and NewsGuard. These developed censorship technologies and blacklists to label media critical of the government as ‘unreliable’. Advertisers were massively intimidated to stop placing their ads on these channels. But the nightmare is now over: the Trump administration abolished the GEC soon after taking office. The GDI, which has now had its US and UK subsidies withdrawn, had to be blacklisted and is now mainly in Brussels begging for more censorship laws. Only NewsGuard is still up to its mischief.

The scale of the control and disciplinary system was enormous. By comparison, the State Department had supported as many as 300 digital tools of a censorship nature. These were used to encourage NGOs, public authorities and private companies to outright suppress government-defined ‘disinformation’. This was particularly the case with dissenting opinions on the Covid-19 pandemic and the highly controversial mRNA vaccines. Warners were subject to censorship.

That the Trump administration is serious about fighting the censorship quagmire is also evident from another blow that occurred just a few days earlier: in another, similar settlement, the government committed that even the powerful health and safety agencies – the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Surgeon General – will not be allowed for ten years to exert any pressure on social media platforms to remove or restrict the dissemination of constitutionally protected opinions. The medical-industrial censorship complex has thus been brought under control.

When you look at the zeal with which the European Union (for example, through the Digital Services Act) and Germany are tirelessly developing ever new means of controlling opinion, the significance of what is happening in Washington only becomes apparent. Left-wing and globalist networks have declared war on freedom of expression, and only conservative and right-wing forces are trying to contain this pressure.

This must be said without being too timid: at the moment, only Donald Trump and the US Republicans can save the Western world from a complete slide into censorship madness. While in Europe citizens who criticise the government are increasingly criminalised, in the US Trump is bringing down the illegal censorship tools of the state with a demolition machine. Hopefully, this shining example of uncompromising defence of free speech will soon spread to the old continent before it is too late for democracy there.

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