The Real Threat

I urge this Committee to consider the real threat to Americans' freedom of expression, the one here at home.  I have noted a handful of areas where this administration is putting freedom of expression under direct attack.  Where is the opposition, let alone outrage, given the attack not only on speakers -- journalists, public media, professors, students, whistleblowers, civil servants -- but on every American's right of access to information about the issues important to our democracy and to our public's health?  That, I would respectfully submit, is the real threat to American speech and innovation. 

-- David Kaye, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, in testimony delivered to the House Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" (3 September 2025) (h/t Peter Picucci)