The host from two years ago, Ellen DeGeneres, endorsed his speech on Twitter.
Certain omissions, like the governor's intentions for state spending on education, also gnawed at Republicans who control the State Senate, though the Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, endorsed the speech.
Smith implicitly endorsed the speech.
Among the deletions were conclusions about the likely human contribution to warming from a 2001 report on climate by the National Research Council that the White House had commissioned and that President Bush had endorsed in speeches that year.
"If we only endorsed freedom of speech for people whose speech we liked that would be a very limited notion of freedom of speech," Solomon said.
The author boldly endorses "free speech, privacy, access to content, freedom from excessive regulation"; he says that "the original Net" valued and protected these things, and that the Internet should continue protecting then, whatever it turns into.
Former State Department official Carl W. Ford Jr. told the committee last week that in 2002 Bolton sought to remove two intelligence analysts who refused to endorse a speech he was preparing on Cuba's weapons capability.
It's left trying to balance its mission to connect the world, its business that thrives on maximizing user counts and engagement, its brand as a family-friendly utility, its responsibility to protect society and democracy from misinformation and its values that endorse free speech and a voice for everyone.
I doubt his department would cosponsor and endorse a speech by a moderate pro-Israel advocate who favored the two state solution and opposed settlement building.
Only under the current administration, however, have we seen a president and his close associates outright endorsing hate speech directed at Soros.
