During the Biden administration there was a lot of "FA" being allowed, but now that Team Trump is in office the "FO" portion has begun.
.@SecRubio on detained Turkish student: "We revoked her visa...We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses. If we've given you a visa and then you decide to do that we're going to take it away. pic.twitter.com/s6yKQ2WqwY
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 27, 2025
That story had Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy doing some "free speech" pearl clutching:
This is bone chilling. We are watching a Censorship Regime forming.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 28, 2025
Everyone in America - citizens and green card holders - has the protection of free speech. https://t.co/ryJYVjpklw
It's amazing what a Democrat's definition of "bone chilling" can be, not to mention what constitutes "free speech."
A couple years ago we got comments like this from Murphy but now anything goes because "Trump bad":
This is really important. Jewish students feel dangerously unsafe right now. Where you find antisemitism, violence is soon to follow, and we need to take steps right now to keep our students safe. https://t.co/t8d4Apxgss
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 4, 2023
What changed?
Recommended
It's not. It's a privilege to be here on a student visa. We don't need foreigners supporting terrorist organizations here.
— Tesp (@Therealtesp) March 28, 2025
Nope. There's no right to hold a student visa or green card.
— Tom (@BoreGuru) March 28, 2025
Nor is there a "right" to threaten and intimidate Jewish students.
Specifics of this particular story aside, watching Democrats like Murphy hyperventilate about free speech after what we've seen the last several years is rich indeed. I posted just a couple of examples on X earlier today:
Your party was just fine with media outlets and social media users getting banned for sharing the true story about Hunter Biden's laptop and saying Covid could have come from a China lab.
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) March 28, 2025
Stop the "censorship" pearl clutching. https://t.co/TmpcfbOcnU
Additionally, the kinds of stories and comments the Democrats supported censoring were true.
I think the fact that Joe Biden’s administration was ordering Twitter and facebook to censor American citizens was the real violation of the first amendment and as I recall you didn’t say anything about that. https://t.co/6Ic63KfPlV
— Jenn. (@jennyjupite) March 28, 2025
The Democrats actually LOVE censorship as long as they are the ones doing the censoring. Thanks to Sen. Murphy for providing an opportunity to point that out yet again.
