[StackRanker3000]

Free speech by foreign governments (or controlled by foreign governments) has never been protected by the US constitution, right?

I do agree that Trump, in both his administrations, has made it starkly clear that its checks and balances are quite impotent against a person or party that doesn’t care to follow the rules, so long as they have enough supporters that also don’t care, or are misled

[Buttons840]

I mean free speech the ideal, not free speech the law.

Obviously the law can be contrary to free speech the ideal, in this case.