Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) both have said they want to use the power of the federal government to silence opinions they do not agree with. Brazil’s socialist government has recently shown them how.
And the Democratic Party appears to support Brazil’s authoritarian attack on free speech.
“Obrigado Brasil!” (which translates to “Thank you, Brazil!”) Walz Attorney General Keith Ellison posted after Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court upheld a judge’s decision to ban X throughout the country.
The socialist judge had been on a crusade of ridding opinions he disagrees with for years, most recently ordering the removal of over 140 accounts on X. When X owner Elon Musk refused to delete the accounts, the judge ordered all of X to be blocked in Brazil and held that any Brazilian who uses a VPN to evade the block would be fined $9,000 a day.
Ellison apparently condones this totalitarian tactic, and past statements from both Harris and Walz indicate they also would be supportive of such state-sponsored censorship.
Harris called on X to ban former President Donald Trump from the social media platform long before Jan. 6, 2021. Harris told CNN’s Jake Tapper that since “what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts people’s perceptions about what they should and should not do,” he should lose his “privileges” to speak online. Harris even attacked her fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates for not joining her in calling on the platform to silence Trump.
“I called on Twitter to suspend Donald Trump’s account,” Harris said on the debate stage in 2019. “And I would urge you to join me.”
Walz has been equally dismissive of the First Amendment, telling MSNBC in 2022 that “there’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”
Walz is, of course, wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court has held multiple times that “hate speech” is protected under the First Amendment, as is “misinformation,” which is really just another way of saying “information Democrats don’t like.”
It is true that speech directly calling for violence or directly threatening violence is not protected by the First Amendment, nor is obscenity or defamation. But that is not the kind of speech the Brazilian judge is trying to shut down, it is not the type of speech Walz thinks should be banned, and it is not the Trump speech that Harris wanted censored in 2019.
Brazil’s socialist government and the Harris-Walz Democratic Party want to silence all speech they disagree with. You believe men are men and women are women? Democrats believe that is hate speech that should be banned. You believe COVID-19 came from a lab in China and not a seafood market? Democrats want to censor that, too.
The proper response to speech you don’t like is more persuasive speech explaining why your political opponents are wrong.
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For decades, the Democratic Party had a lock on the major newspapers and television networks. Its allies in the media could stifle opinions Democrats didn’t like. But with social media like X, Democrats have lost control over the national discourse. They can no longer shut down debate like they did before.
That is why Ellison was so excited about what Brazil has done to X. And it should frighten everyone about what Harris and Walz would do if they ever got control of the Justice Department.
This article was originally published in The www.washingtonexaminer.com
