Free speech has taken a beating in recent times, each right here and overseas.
The Twitter Recordsdata. Group Biden weaponizing U.S. intelligence to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop computer story. Mother and father focused by the FBI for daring to criticize native college board selections.
“Mistaken” opinions on COVID-19 censored by Massive Tech platforms. And the issue is worse abroad.
‘I needed to depend on a relative in America to inform me what was happening in England’
Posts on X have been censored underneath the On-line Security Act, together with posts about single intercourse areas, Katie Lam MP speaking about grooming gangs, and movies of arrests being made.@BenBarryJones pic.twitter.com/oGir8igUNp
— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) July 29, 2025
In Germany, should you submit a meme on social media that far-left criminals don’t like, police will search your own home and confiscate every little thing. Free speech in Europe now not exists, JD Vance is true. pic.twitter.com/lfhY3EyNrH
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) July 26, 2025
The issue infested the inventive neighborhood, too.
Somebody even wrote a e-book about it.
And, by all of it, Hollywood stars remained principally silent. They’d each alternative to defend speech, be it awards present galas, journal interviews, social media accounts or podcast platforms.
Heck, they’d each proper to talk out. Free speech is the core of their livelihoods.
But they stood down. Again and again. Some took an energetic position in self-censorship.
The exceptions proved the rule, like when Tom Hanks attacked these desirous to censor books for problematic phrases.
Alongside comes The Writers Guild of America to decry “the harmful and escalating assaults on the First Modification, unbiased media, and the free press.”
The supply of the issue? President Donald Trump. In fact.
Among the many signees of the WGA open letter are screenwriter Tony Gilroy (“Andor”) Spike Lee, “The Wire’s” David Simon, Oscar-winner Adam McKay, John Waters and Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”).
Now we face an unprecedented, authoritarian assault. In the previous few months alone, President Trump has filed baseless lawsuits in opposition to information organizations which have printed tales he doesn’t like and leveraged them into payoffs, most notably at Paramount, which settled a meritless lawsuit in opposition to 60 Minutes for $16 million.
We noticed with our personal eyes how CBS’s “60 Minutes” deceitfully edited Vice President Kamala Harris to make her sound articulate.
NEW: 60 Minutes edited out one among Kamala Harris’s rambles on the Russia/Ukraine warfare, clipped in a powerful assertion as a substitute about Putin “sitting in Kyiv proper now.”
Edited model:
Query: “Would you help the hassle to develop NATO to incorporate Ukraine?”
Reply: “These are… pic.twitter.com/vKOQA0BQec
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 5, 2025
He has retaliated in opposition to publications reporting factually on the White Home and threatened broadcasters’ licenses. He repeatedly requires the cancelation of stories and leisure tv reveals that criticize him in late-night and, most just lately, The View.
President Trump has completed a few of that, to his disgrace. It’s Tweets and bluster, and he’s proved over one-plus phrases in workplace that he doesn’t comply with it up with motion.
Thank goodness. It’s dramatically lower than what his predecessor did, and Hollywood, Inc. didn’t say boo about any of it.
Not. One. Syllable.
The Obama administration could have aggressively focused journalist Sharyl Attkisson, a narrative that by no means appears to make it into the every day headlines.
Then once more, Biden focused conservatives, and their free speech rights don’t matter to most Hollywood dwellers. Simply ask the victims of the new Hollywood Blacklist.
The Hollywood Blacklist 2.0 has pummeled conservatives stars for 12 months after 12 months
Simply ask @ksorbs @RealJamesWoods and MANY extra proficient artists
Please present me the Peter Bart column savaging that actuality.
I’ll wait. https://t.co/N6kmmx16YV
— Christian Toto (@HollywoodInToto) January 31, 2025
Extra WGA “proof?” The Trump-led GOP defunded the Company for Public Broadcasting, a far-Left outfit that now not meets the wants of Twenty first-century America.
And Trump performed a task in canceling “The Late Present” with Stephen Colbert though a number of insider studies have uncovered nothing of the type. Plus, CBS was dropping $40 million a 12 months by protecting the present on the air.
Isn’t that the true problem?
We don’t have a king, we have now a president. And the president doesn’t get to select what’s on tv, in film theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or within the information.
Hypocrites. All of them. Frauds.
McKay’s title is a curious addition to the record. Why? He funds radical eco-warriors who assault priceless artworks.
It’s odd that the assembled scribes, along with their earlier silence, haven’t defended Jewish artists being canceled for his or her non secular beliefs.
Like this:
My present tonight on the Stardome in Alabama was CANCELLED.
I didn’t cancel. I might by no means cancel—particularly since I’m already right here in Birmingham, able to carry out.
It was shut down due to protests and threats over my help for Israel and for talking up in regards to the 50… pic.twitter.com/5XyV9Qtkkv— MichaelRapaport (@MichaelRapaport) August 5, 2025
Possibly they’ll get round to it of their subsequent open letter attacking Trump.
Don’t maintain your breath.