The media betrayed freedom of speech—at least for Americans who do not have a journalism degree. Biden administration officials conducted potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history,” a federal judge concluded, and a federal appeals court condemned Team Biden for “suppressing millions of protected free-speech postings by American citizens”—mostly by conservatives and Republicans. But most of the media was the Sherlock Holmes’ “dog that didn’t bark” when federal agencies browbeat social media companies with endless demands to muzzle and blindfold average Americans. Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance raised the censorship issue during his debate with Gov. Tim Walz, but it got little or no traction beyond his spiels. Instead, censorship was championed by the media in recent years as part of a holy crusade against “misinformation” (i.e., facts that are damned inconvenient for the ruling class). Did progressives discover a hidden asterisk to the First Amendment that nullifies constitutional rights for anyone who jokes about covid vaccine mandates?