Kamala Harris openly bragged about using the DoJ to fight against speech the government doesn’t agree with
By isabelle // 2024-10-13
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Social media censorship has been pretty rampant under the Biden administration, but it could get a lot worse if Kamala Harris takes office. In fact, she has been bragging about using the Department of Justice to counter so-called misinformation for several years. In a recently resurfaced video clip from CSPAN of her speaking before the NAACP’s annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit in 2019, she talked about how the DoJ could help fight speech the government does not agree with. She said: "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. And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber warfare. If you don't police your platforms, we are going to hold you accountable as a community." Shortly thereafter, the Department of Justice started a push for rewriting Communications Decency Act Section 230 to place limits on the previously broad immunity that social media platforms enjoyed. It was all downhill from there. Recall how the Biden-Harris administration pushed Twitter to censor what it claimed was “misinformation” about COVID-19. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on social media and “all of society” to tackle misinformation, asking platforms to actively monitor for false information. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that he was pressured by the Biden administration to censor COVID-19-related content during the pandemic and expressed regret for not speaking out about the pressure they placed on him sooner when it comes to removing certain types of content. He told the House Judiciary Committee in a letter: "In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree." He vowed to fight back should they be placed in a similar situation in the future – which could very well be the case if Harris takes office.

Social media censorship has the power to sway elections

The Twitter Files, documents released by Elon Musk after he bought Twitter illustrating how the platform's previous owners caved to government pressure to censor users on a number of topics, shed a lot of light on how extensive this type of collusion actually was. One of the most chilling incidents was the censorship of news articles about a bombshell New York Post story about emails found on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The emails exposed the foreign influence peddling the Biden family had been engaging in, and it had the potential to influence Americans’ votes. Both Twitter and Facebook tried to block the story from being shared as the 2020 election loomed, even through direct message, and some users were suspended after sharing the story. There are countless examples of the Biden-Harris administration trying to exert its power to control narratives and censor those who share conservative viewpoints. All they have to do is label a post they don’t agree with “hate speech” or “misinformation”, and they can make it disappear. Although they often go out of their way to try to cover up their collusion with social media platforms, it is an open secret that this is going on regularly, and the fact that Harris was so willing to openly admit this while speaking on TV – and even called for taking it further – should be a warning to all Americans that they could be about to lose their First Amendment rights. Sources for this article include: ZeroHedge.com ZeroHedge.com Reuters.com
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