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Online Expression During Year One of Trump’s Second Presidential Term: Lofty Rhetoric Confronts a Dispiriting Reality
- In his January 2025 inaugural address and an executive order issued the same day, President Donald Trump promised to bring back free speech to America by immediately stopping all government censorship and securing the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech. More than one year later, five practices-ones the Trump administration either expressly deployed or allegedly adopted during approximately the first year since Trump‘s return to the Oval Office-raise doubts about whether the administration is delivering on those righteous, first-day promises when it comes to online free expression.
- The first involves Trump officials allegedly coercing private businesses to remove online applications and discussion groups that provide information about public-venue sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. A second entails leveraging the Federal Trade Commission‘s (FTC) regulatory power to inquire about, question, or investigate the practices of companies that provide vehicles for expressing, disseminating, or evaluating online speech. A third involves targeting people-for loss of employment or possible prosecution-who post offensive, hateful, or disparaging messages about public figures the Trump administration reveres, such as the late Charlie Kirk. A fourth pivots on monitoring social media communications and unmasking anonymous posters‘ identities. A fifth involves the Trump administration commandeering the automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages of workaday US Department of Education employees during the 2025 federal government shutdown.
- Although some of the practices involve a chilling effect on online expression rather than direct censorship of it, they all should be significantly rolled back-if not completely abandoned-during the rest of Trump‘s term for the president to fulfill his principled pledge to bring back free speech to America.
- The first involves Trump officials allegedly coercing private businesses to remove online applications and discussion groups that provide information about public-venue sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. A second entails leveraging the Federal Trade Commission‘s (FTC) regulatory power to inquire about, question, or investigate the practices of companies that provide vehicles for expressing, disseminating, or evaluating online speech. A third involves targeting people-for loss of employment or possible prosecution-who post offensive, hateful, or disparaging messages about public figures the Trump administration reveres, such as the late Charlie Kirk. A fourth pivots on monitoring social media communications and unmasking anonymous posters‘ identities. A fifth involves the Trump administration commandeering the automated out-of-office (OOO) email messages of workaday US Department of Education employees during the 2025 federal government shutdown.
- Although some of the practices involve a chilling effect on online expression rather than direct censorship of it, they all should be significantly rolled back-if not completely abandoned-during the rest of Trump‘s term for the president to fulfill his principled pledge to bring back free speech to America.
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