It Really Wasn’t About Free Speech

Rex Huppke: “Do you all remember how Republicans and enraged right-wing pundits spent the past four years screaming and hollering and foaming at the mouth over ‘censorship’ and the importance of free speech?”

“Yeah, those folks are all pretty quiet right now while the Trump administration is banning specific words from government websites, aggressively trying to erase transgender people from history and blocking Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office.”

Brian Stelter notes the arguments about “free speech” nowadays are really about “favored speech” versus “disfavored speech.”