President Trump has been vocal about his stance on censorship conspiracies and the deep state. His most recent statement on this topic was during a presidential debate in Philadelphia on September 11, 2024. During the debate, he reiterated his commitment to dismantling what he refers to as the "deep state" and addressing censorship issues.
Will there be any lawsuits in 2025 about these subject? Initiated by the president or by people in his circle.
Especially I'm thinking about this:
President Donald J. Trump — Free Speech Policy Initiative | Agenda47 | Donald J. Trump
And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship—directly or indirectly—whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.
If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past—such as flagging social media content for removal [and] blacklisting—those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights.
Resolution:
This must be published in standard media outlets. So it must be big and visible enough to register there.
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1.00@Enlil I'm not yet clear myself. This is an exploratory question. But I'm thinking about his:
President Donald J. Trump — Free Speech Policy Initiative | Agenda47 | Donald J. Trump
And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship—directly or indirectly—whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.
If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past—such as flagging social media content for removal [and] blacklisting—those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights.
@uair01 I figured as much. It sounds to me though like "clearing out the deep state" won't require lawsuits, they can just fire lots of people. But even that's gonna be squishy because Elon wants to fire massive amounts of people anyways.
On the University and company censorship front it sounds like they'll pass laws which means even the infringements have to take place in the future for a lawsuit to happen.
It's a good question of critical importants but it's one that's very hard to ask in a clear way