Germany, as you may know, has tough social media rules. J. D. Vance has called those policies “Orwellian” and “lunacy.” The Trump administration thinks that rules against antisemitism and racial slurs undercut free speech.
Now Secretary of State Rubio has banned two women from the group “Hate Aid” from entering the United States. The group helps women demeaned on the internet.
Rubio says the women are part of a “global censorship-industrial complex,” whatever that is, and if the women entered the U.S. it could have “serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”
This is the same administration that tried to get Jimmy Kimmel off the air, that put out a list of words and phrases like “transgender” and “climate change” that could no longer be used in government documents, that wants to remove certain books from schools and libraries, and that went after college students who carried signs in support of Palestinians. Yeah, that group, so quick to defend free speech as long as it involves demeaning women.
I was about to write “amazing,” but it isn’t. It’s the Trump administration.
See Adam Satariano, “Barred over Helping Women Abused Online, New York Times, (Mar. 4, 2026), p. B1, B6.
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