Heritage Foundation

The article traces how the ‘censorship-industrial-complex’ moved from fringe-right theory to mainstream policy, driving regulatory actions, funding shifts, and legal scrutiny that reshape US and EU online speech governance.

The OMB's proposed rulemaking would elevate political appointee discretion over grant funding, enabling grant cancellations and imposing culture-war and international-collaboration restrictions that could cripple US science funding and output.

Proposed OMB rules would give political appointees final say on federal research grants, centralizing control and potentially sidelining peer review, with broad regulatory implications for NIH/NSF funding.