Free Speech Is On The Ballot
Free speech is on the ballot in November. And here’s a short, succinct voter guide.
This was Kamala Harris in 2019, calling for a Republican political opponent to have his Twitter account yanked because she didn’t want Americans to hear what he had to say
This is Kamala Harris during the 2020 campaign, saying that Twitter had lost its free speech “privilege” because millions of people were permitted to speak their minds on X without government oversight.
This is stunning. The vice president of the United States - a lawyer, who eventually passed the bar exam and presumably took at least one constitutional law class - believes that free speech is a PRIVILEGE. She also regards speech that isn’t subject to government moderation as dangerous.
Someone please remind her that free expression is a constitutionally protected RIGHT, not a privilege bestowed only on citizens who agree with the regime. While you’re at it, remind her that the First Amendment exists to keep the government OUT of the marketplace of ideas.
As we know now from Mark Zuckerberg, the Biden-Harris administration not only promised censorship, but delivered during their term in office. They bullied their way into that marketplace of ideas during covid. Under pressure from the president and vice president, Facebook hid posts that questioned government orthodoxy on covid and the vaccines.
And during their 2020 campaign, these two and their lieutenants badgered Zuckerberg into hiding information about the Hunter Biden laptop. Had the compromising information contained on that computer been authenticated to the public prior to the election, Biden and Harris likely would have lost the election.
Kamala Harris is an enemy of those who value freedom of expression. If she wants to rule a country where speech is a privilege that’s moderated by the government and where leaders silence their political opponents perhaps she should relocate to China. Or Russia. Or North Korea.
Remember, it was Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who said that the cure for harmful speech wasn’t censorship, but “more speech.”
That was true in the 1930s and it’s true now.
