Among the many far-left policies put forward by Kamala Harris over the course of her career in public office, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently suggested that her attempt to silent dissenting viewpoints is among the most insidious.
He made his case during an episode of his “Verdict” podcast, as the Daily Wire reported:
“Kamala has a long, long history of calling for censorship, calling for silencing anyone who disagrees with her, of wanting to use government power to silence her critics,” Cruz said. “If Kamala Harris becomes president, I predict now she will try to muzzle X. She will try to ban X. She wants to follow Brazil’s path and ban X. She wants to use government power to go after big tech and force them to be her censors.”
Cruz said that Harris shows more disdain for the First Amendment than any other presidential candidate in more than two centuries.
“The last time we had a presidential candidate with this antipathy was John Adams, our second president, who had enforced the Alien and Sedition Acts and used them to persecute his political opponents,” he said. “It’s been two centuries since that has happened since then, and Kamala Harris displays an unprecedented willingness to use government power to silence you.”
Many other critics have chronicled Harris’ various threats:
Forget about every other reason I have why America can’t let this woman/party win the election…
This is the #1 reason!!!
Kamala Harris just said they are going to get rid of Freedom Of Speech AND try to jail people for it! @elonmusk isn’t the only target here… everyone is! pic.twitter.com/NVmYo9uLT6
— doitbigchicago (@doitbigchicago) September 5, 2024
Kamala Harris hates free speech.
Have no doubt, she is the queen of censorship.pic.twitter.com/y0Ljnbrfh9
— False Flag 🏴☠️ (@Vital_Vibration) August 31, 2024
Once we lose free speech we lose everything.
"They are directly speaking to millions of people without any oversight or regulation and that has to stop"
says
Kamala Harris.
pic.twitter.com/HPsxnHkdF5— Emma Peel (@madelynrogers) September 2, 2024
Keep Sharing This Because It’s The Most Important Clip of 2024. Kamala Harris Will End Free Speech
“We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy”… pic.twitter.com/SjuxzMYxPw
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 8, 2024
A recent New York Post article compared Harris’ rhetoric on free speech to that of the current Brazilian regime:
Every two-bit authoritarian in history has justified censoring citizens as a way of protecting them from the menace of disinformation.
But social media sites, contra the reliably illiberal Harris, aren’t “directly speaking” to anyone. Millions of individuals are interacting and speaking to millions of other individuals.
Really, that’s what grinds the modern left’s gears: unsupervised conversations.
Take the Brazilian Supreme Court panel that unanimously upheld the decision by one of its justices to shut down Elon Musk’s X over alleged “misinformation” fears.
We must assume that the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, who once promised to ban guns via an executive order, agrees with Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ decision to shut down a social media platform for refusing to bend to the state’s demands of censorship.
The Associated Press reports that the Brazilian high court’s decision “undermines the effort by Musk and his supporters to cast Justice Alexandre de Moraes as an authoritarian renegade who is intent on censoring political speech in Brazil.”
Really? Because it seems to me that the state shuttering one of the popular social media sites unmistakably qualifies as a ban on political speech, whether one person is responsible or an entire government.
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Here’s how Cruz summed up Harris’ campaign during a recent Fox News appearance:
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