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Trump’s free speech tsar: We’re flooded by complaints from Britons

British users make up the ‘clear majority’ of those visiting a planned VPN-style portal, which the administration hopes will boost freedom of thought

British citizens are flocking to a website set up by the Trump administration to bypass online-safety laws because they are living under a government “hostile to freedom of speech”, a senior US official has said.

Sarah Rogers, the under-secretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department, said freedom.gov had received significant interest from British users.

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