Correct. And let's not pretend we really have a 'free press' principle of our own at this point. Look at the demands up thread that Tucker be arrested and tried for treason for having the temerity to maybe interview Putin in a way some won't approve of. Without Mike Rodgers heroic efforts to stop it, the NSA would have removed Trump in month one from office, or prevented him even from being sworn in.
Missouri v. Biden, heck, everything around covid and the censorship industrial complex have proven that beyond any reasonable doubt. More recently;
After the Zelenskyy regime imprisoned an American journalist, Gonzalo Lira, for reporting critically on his administration, he appealed to the State Dept. for help, but the Biden Admin refused to intervene despite having almost complete leverage over Ukraine. He was recently killed in custody, reportedly as a result of torture.
The Biden Admin is currently trying to extradite Julian Assange so that they can try him for "espionage," the same charge Putin's leveling against Evan Gershkovich in Russia
The Biden Admin's aggressive prosecution of BackPage.com publisher James Larkin led the 74-year-old journalist to recently commit suicide
The Biden Admin revoked @simonateba's press credentials after he made a point of asking questions the Biden Admin didn't want asked
The Weaponization Committee uncovered internal Facebook emails showing the Biden Admin's @RFlaherty46 & @ASlavitt "berated" Meta execs, demanding users' info & "tools" to censor Americans & journalists they disliked (including Tucker Carlson).
The Biden Admin is currently appealing to the Supreme Court a federal ruling reminding them that the 1st Amendment prohibits them censoring publishers they dislike
Reporter @lhfang FOIAed emails showing the Biden Admin was censoring evidence of their censoring
Since @elonmusk bought Twitter and vowed to make it an open platform for free speech, the Biden Admin has launched a multi-agency attack on Musk and his companies. The NLRB, SEC, DoJ, Southern District of NY, FTC, & U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are all currently targeting Musk
Biden's NSA surveilled & leaked Tucker Carlson & his producers' communications after he was trying to broker an interview with Putin
Since announcing his interview w/ Putin, the EU has threatened @TuckerCarlson with sanctions and travel bans; he's also on a Ukrainian "kill list" yet thus far the Biden Admin has not felt compelled to speak out in defense of his rights as a journalist
NSA spying
is far and wide, often has nothing at all to do with actual security for Americans or spying by foreign powers, and includes the use of contractors doing 'about' inquiries as well at their discretion. It goes way beyond j
ust Russiagate.