WaPo’s Upside Down: Censorship Is Speech & Defending Speech Is Censorship

January 29th, 2025 9:38 AM

A writer at billionaire Jeff Bezos’s The Washington Post had an unusual response to President Donald Trump’s executive order on censorship: Won’t anyone think of the censors?

The Post once again perfectly turned a situation on its head by arguing that censorship is free speech and efforts to curtail the silencing of speech are true censorship. In a Jan. 22 article by Technology news analysis writer Will Oremus, The Post outrageously condemned President Donald Trump and Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) efforts to fight censorship on social media and downplayed government efforts to make social media companies censor. The Post partially accomplished this by repeatedly citing a litigation director at the misleadingly named Knight First Amendment Institute, Alex Abdo, who aggressively defended Big Tech’s right to censor. 

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