Posted on 11/20/2025 9:37:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State Department official said Thursday, as the Trump administration targets traditional European allies for alleged freedom of speech restrictions.
The move further institutionalizes changes seen in the latest report released in August, which covered the 2024 calendar year. That report alleged “significant human rights issues” in allied countries including the United Kingdom, France and Germany over “serious restrictions on freedom of expression.”
The State Department instructed all embassies and consulates in a diplomatic cable Thursday to begin preparing the congressionally required annual report. The official said they are encouraging diplomats to “go out in the field, talk to people, collect data that then informs the report.”
The future report is “really going to reflect what’s going on in the country,” they said.
“For instance, in Western Europe, we see a backsliding of the protection of freedom of expression. So of course, we’re going to prioritize that versus another country that is maybe not curtailing free speech as much,” the official said.
Top Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, have lambasted European nations over allegations of free speech backsliding while also meeting with far-right European political figures.
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“...freedom of speech restrictions...”
How can the US determine what other countries can say without restriction when we can’t do that ourselves?
wy69
I believe that was the year I hiked her.
Good! Grant political asylum to Western Europeans fleeing their oppressive governments for violating their free speech rights or persecuting them for being opposed to Gaia Worship, Socialism or Open Borders......or for harassing them for insulting politicians or bureaucrats.
There is a lot of free speech infringement right here at home. My gym has blocked out Fox on all the TV’s.
Is this America?? THESE are the people calling Conservatives ‘Fascist’
They’ll need to add Canaduh to that list, with Circus Carney in charge now.
Is China included or are we too busy kissing Xi’s butt?
This is about government censorship of speech, not a business deciding what to play or not play on their TVs. Big difference.
If Europe has another war, I will agitate against U.S. helping anybody.
If they are willing to allow their freedoms to be taken without a fight, I’m not sending American kids to save them.
And they hate us. The populations in the countries with which we have entanglements and “treaty obligations” hate us.
They hate us just as much as the Democrats do.
Not one penny for them.
How dare oyu impose freedom on them?
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