Trump’s State Department condemned an anti-free speech government pressuring X to censor.

The State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor went after Australia in a May 1 post on X after the country “required X to remove a post criticizing an individual for promoting gender ideology.” Removing this post would have cut off not merely an Australian audience from hearing the speech of a silenced user, but also the rest of the world. “The Department of State is deeply concerned about efforts by governments to coerce American tech companies into targeting individuals for censorship. Freedom of expression must be protected – online and offline,” The State Department wrote. 

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