A newly empowered government oversight official just promised to uphold free speech.
Beth A. Williams, currently the only member of the U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Board addressed the 2025 State of the Net Conference, making clear that the era of debanking and government collusion to censor free speech is over. “I’m committed to moving forward rapidly in our current investigation into the government’s efforts to counter speech it labels mis-, dis- and malinformation,” she said.
The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Board’s stated mission “is to ensure that the federal government’s efforts to prevent terrorism are balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties.” In this case, that includes preventing unconstitutional government censorship.
Williams continued, “We’ve already seen substantial evidence that the government…
