In Trumpland, 'Free Speech' Means Submission to Trump

In Trumpland, 'Free Speech' Means Submission to Trump

By claiming that any regulation is censorship, the White House is bullying Britain to abandon online safety laws and digital taxes, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

From Trump to Le Pen to Merz: Recently, some politicians seem to think that laws and judgments are more of a non-binding recommendation. How can the rule of law be protected from those who undermine it?

In Trumpland, ‘defending free speech’ means one thing: submission to the president | Rafael Behr - Corruption By Cops

Compared with many countries around the world, the US is still a great democracy, but a much lesser one than it was four months ago. The constitution has not been rewritten. Checks and balances have not been dissolved. The difference is a president who ignores those constraints, and the impotence of the institutions that should enforce them. Which is the true US, the one enshrined in law or the one that smirks in contempt of law? If the latter, …