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Marco Rubio: “We ended government-sponsored censorship in the United…”

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State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship

Published April 16, 2025 | Video Starts at 16:12

Something very historic transpired today. Could you tell the American people what that was? Well, We ended government-sponsored censorship in the United States through the State Department. And let me explain how we get there. This started out, you know, 15, 10 years ago with this effort of, let's go after the messaging that Al Qaeda and ISIS and others are putting to radicalize people. (16:12–16:17)

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“American taxpayers through the State Department were paying groups to attack Americans and to try to silence the voice of Americans.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 17:13-17:21
“Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down. They couldn't communicate.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 17:22-17:27
“Before President Trump took over, they disbanded this unit. They just renamed it and moved it somewhere else.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 17:29-17:35
“We are going to spend money on messaging. It's going to be pro-American messaging and it's going to be incentivizing and protecting free…”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 17:39-17:51
“We have to document what happens...people who are harmed deserve to know that and be able to prove that they were harmed.”
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“There are a lot of other, including everyday individual American citizens who suddenly were labeled [and deplatformed].”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 22:16-22:23
“Somebody got deplatformed in 2021, right? And like in the middle of COVID 2020, someone got deplatformed.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 22:28-22:37
“We know enough to already act, but we obviously want to know the depth and the scope of this that's going to happen.”
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“Our number one priority is Americans.”
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“One of those shared values we hope is freedom of expression.”
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“This issue came up [in an Oval Office meeting] with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 26:10-26:17
“I personally witnessed the President and the Vice President raise it with multiple foreign leaders.”
State Department's Historic Move to End Government-Sponsored Censorship | Uploaded April 16, 2025 | 26:41-26:47
“Foreign entities taking actions that go after Americans for speech becomes a foreign policy irritant for the United States.”
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“The number one priority of the State Department is to serve the national interest of the United States and the interest of the American…”
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“Mainstream newspapers and mainstream media outlets report things as fact that are completely not true.”
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