From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Ketrow-F.

This is the Daily.

After years and years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression,

I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America.

President Trump began his term with a promise.

He would restore free speech in America after what he said were the left's attempts to limit it.

Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.

But over the past year, the federal government has taken a series of actions, widely seen as direct attacks on the First Amendment.

Trump threatened to deport non-citizen college students and other international visitors

who take part in pro-Palestinian protests.

Donald Trump declared on social media that comedian Seth Myers jokes about him were,

quote, 100% anti-Trump, which is probably illegal.

Moves that supercharged a furious debate over free speech in the United States.

A staunch proponent of free speech, Charlie Kirk openly debated hot-button issues.

But in the wake of his death, that fundamental right is being challenged.

If you're going to spread hateful shit and you're going to target marginalized groups of people,

don't be all, oh my God, I've been shot.

So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out in hell, call their employer.

You believe in canceling and deplatforming people who platform people that you do not like.

And that goes against all of the principles of conservatism.

So this fall, I spoke with Greg Lukianoff, the head of a legal defense group called

the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or Fire.

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