Posted 25 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownThis Resurfaced Tweet Of Charlie Kirk Explaining Why "ALL" Speech Should Be Protected Is Going ViralPeople are begging MAGA to heed his warning.by Alexa LisitzaBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot Topic🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics It's been a little over a week since conservative personality Charlie Kirk was killed, and in that time, Americans have felt a rising tension around their First Amendment right to free speech. Benjamin Hanson / Getty Images Between Vice President JD Vance encouraging citizens to call the employers of anyone "celebrating" Charlie's murder...
This same guy recently flew to Europe to lecture people on freedom of speech. https://t.co/vCWLGYV3yr- Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) September 15, 2025 Twitter: @BohuslavskaKate ...to US Attorney General Pam Bondi saying - and later walking back that - the Justice Department would "absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech..."THE PARTY OF FREE SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH! https://t.co/FhknihrReb- Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 16, 2025 Twitter: @mehdirhasan ...and even ABC indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel's late night show over comments he made about Kirk's death... Twitter: @GovPressOffice BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicLet's chat about all things PoliticsSee our Politics Discussions ...people like California Governor Gavin Newsom (and many online) have questioned what free speech really looks like under Donald Trump's America. Twitter: @GavinNewsom And some believe they found a guide in an unlikely
Source: Charlie Kirk, himself.
In 2024, Kirk tweeted, "Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment." Twitter: @charliekirk11 "Keep America free," he concluded at the time. Benjamin Hanson / Getty Images This message has since resurfaced online, garnering millions upon millions of new views. And netizens are using Kirk's words against an administration that claims to be honoring him. Twitter: @ModestYouth People are begging Republicans to listen to Kirk's direction on free speech. Twitter: @tatesmclaren One person wrote, "@POTUS Please don't try to regulate 'hate speech'. Charlie was against the idea because all speech is legal speech. The government shouldn't try to regulate any type of speech." Twitter: @WittyInWords What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.