Trump Admin Discovers 'Censorship' When It Suits Them
The Bloomberg piece highlights the Trump administration's directive to reject H-1B applicants involved in 'censorship' of free speech. This comes from the same administration that routinely attacked journalists as 'enemies of the people,' moved to ban TikTok via executive order citing national security, and saw the Department of Homeland Security attempt to create a 'Disinformation Governance
Board'—a move widely criticized as a naked attempt at federal thought-policing. The hypocrisy here is so thick, you could spread it on toast from Mar-a-Lago. It appears 'censorship' only becomes a national security threat when it's not being wielded by the U.S. government or its allies. How convenient that the focus is on a few foreign visa applicants, rather than, say, the systemic pressure on
American media to self-censor coverage of uncomfortable truths about geopolitical maneuvers, or the documented efforts to silence critics of Israeli government policy. The 'censorship' concern seems to wax and wane with political expediency, not principle.