JONATHAN TURLEY: Get the US out of the censorship business, once and for all, in 2025 [Video]

Editor’s note: This essay was first published on the author’s blog: Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks.

2025 has just begun and for the first time in many years, free-speech advocates have a reason to celebrate.

With the departure of 2024, we said goodbye to one of the most reviled offices in the Biden administration: The Global Engagement Center (GEC). I discuss the Center in my recent book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” as one of the most active components in the massive censorship system funded by the Biden administration.  

The demise of the GEC is a good start. However, like weight-loss resolutions, it will take much more of a commitment if we are going …