Nat Hentoff wrote the book Free Speech For Me — But Not For Thee (1992). The situation has deteriorated considerably since then. Here we have the incumbent Vice President of the United States and Democratic presidential nominee advocating for government regulation and censorship of speech on social media (video below in what must be a vintage 2019 clip). Glenn Reynolds collects comments here.
This is of course the regime that the authorities imposed behind the scenes over the past several years and that the Supreme Court let ride in Murthy v. Missouri (2024). The First Amendment to the contrary notwithstanding, Kamala Harris openly argued in its favor (i.e., in favor of the regime of suppression and censorship). It worked well for the Democratic ticket in 2020. Make America like Brazil!
UPDATE: Michael Shellenberger makes the Brazil connection in the Public post “Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, And Barack Obama Back Brazil-Style Censorship.”
MORE: James Freeman supplies the context of this video in his WSJ Best of the Web column “That Kamala Harris video and censorship.”
“They are directly speaking to millions & millions of people without oversight.”
Exactly. That’s free speech. No oversight by government bureaucrats. @jaketapper looks genuinely dumbfounded that this could possibly be her actual position. pic.twitter.com/yOSMq0rMfx
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) September 3, 2024
