Sen. J. D. Vance, R-Ohio, called out Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., for wanting to apply a large repression program, blocking American from practicing their First Amendment right.
” I think this country’s politics is actually in danger. However, it’s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about. It is the risk of censorship”, Vance said at Tuesday evening’s vice presidential debate. ” It’s Kamala Harris saying that rather than debating and persuading other Americans, she would like to judge people who engage in propaganda. That poses a greater danger to democracy than anything that has recently or recently been observed.
Unfortunately, Walz was making false accusations against himself while trying to argue that a peaceful transfer of power was almost impossible after the 2020 election and that the murders of Capitol police officials were connected to the mob on January 6, despite the fact that they were completely unrelated.
Harris and Walz have a lengthy track record of anti-free talk speech and steps, and, like some Democrats, have tried to justify their assault as simply protecting American from “misinformation”.
Walz has said in the recent that” there’s no guarantee to free conversation on misinformation or love speech, and specifically around our democracy”, despite the fact that both “misinformation” and “hate speech” are fully protected by the First Amendment.
” We are united behind a standard American First Amendment process, which allows us to question our differences pretty, argue about them, and persuade our own Americans”, Vance said at the conversation. Harris is engaged in industrial-scale repression. She handled a number of problems successfully. That poses a greater threat to democracy than Donald Trump’s suggestion that protesters should happily demonstrate on January 6th.
In recent years, the federal government has successfully pressed social media sites to stop people from questioning state advice on the Covid crisis, including blocking important news reports like the Hunter Biden notebook scandal and masking, social distancing, and shutting down schools ( none of which had any academic foundations ).
Also, the Biden presidency has used federal agencies to fight so-called “misinformation”. The Biden administration’s use of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ), known as the “nerve center” of the , federal censorship regime as a political cudgel against the American people has been extensively documented in The Federalist.
According to court documents obtained in Missouri v. Biden, the Biden administration directly requested that websites remove content they deemed to be socially incompetent in 2021.
In an apparent attempt to shield their candidate and the ruling party from censure, a group of Democrat lawmakers last year demanded once more that the top 11 social media companies censor Americans ahead of the upcoming vote.
But Harris ‘ speech-sanitizing impulses go further backwards than her time as vice president.
Before the pandemic, Harris addressed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) in 2019 and stated that she wanted to crack down on online hate speech. She said that if she were president, she would “hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms.”
” If you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare, if you do n’t police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable”, she said.
Sen. Harris demanded that past Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey remove the current leader from the system in October of the same year, while then-President Donald Trump was still in business.
” No person, regardless of their career, money, or appearance should be free from abiding by Twitter’s users agreement, not even the President of the United States”, she wrote in a letter.
Harris introduced a bill that would outlaw the ability of religious organizations to maintain their views, attacking one of the most important privileges in the First Amendment. In response to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, the Supreme Court ruled that businesses cannot be required to offer health care plans that include contraception if it is against their religious beliefs.
Harris said that the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee should “never be used to undermine other Americans ‘ civil rights or subject them to discrimination on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity”.
Walz responded to the exchange during which time he said that true censorship is “book banning,” which is a Democrat’s claim that conservatives are trying to ban books from schools. The only books that left-wing teachers and activists seem to be planning on putting in front of young children are those that contain highly sexual, pornographic, and even pedophilic materials.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a Publius Fellow at the 2022 Claremont Institute and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.