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Free Speech Is Now The Second-Most Important Issue For Voters, And That's Very Bad News For KamalaBobby BurackOctober 24, 2024 5:37 PM EDThttps://www.outkick.com/analysis/free-speech-now-second-most-important-issue-voters-thats-very-bad-news-kamalaFree speech is the most fundamental right of every American. That is why free speech is enshrined as the first of the
original 10 constitutional amendments. And for the first time in our lives, that right is in actual jeopardy.
Americans agree.
A new poll from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression found that free speech is now the second-most
important issue for Americans in the upcoming election, trailing only "inflation and increasing costs."
Americans, 63 percent of whom say concerns over free speech are "very important" to them, ranked the issue ahead of
health care, immigration, crime, and guns. And, yes, even more than "racial inequality."
On Thursday, Elon Musk called the finding a "major vibe shift!"
If free speech is actually on the minds of voters come Nov. 5, Kamala Harris will not win the election. It's that simple. For all
the ills of the Republican Party, and there are many, the evidence is clear: the Democratic Party is the party of censorship.
More specifically, government-pressured censorship.
Every recent example of government-pressured censorship traces back to the Democratic Party. Let us run through some of
the more egregious cases:
Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the White House urged Facebook to remove posts about Covid that
reflected poorly on the Biden-Harris administration.
In 2022, Zuckerberg confessed to Joe Rogan that Meta suppressed the accurately reported Hunter Biden laptop story in
response to false FBI warnings of incoming "Russian disinformation."
But it's not just Meta.
When Elon Musk purchased Twitter (known as X) in 2022, he provided reporters with internal communications that proved
the extent to which former executives engaged in politically motivated censorship on behalf of, again, the Biden-Harris
administration. The revelations – known as #TwitterFiles --included examples of shadow-banning, de-amplification,
removing posts, and banning accounts.
Last November, the House Judiciary Committee filed a 103-page staff interim report detailing how government agencies
pressured tech companies to dictate the information posted on social media prior to the 2020 presidential election.
The finding discovered "hundreds" of reports showing how the Department of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity and
Infrastructure Security Agency, Department of State, and Stanford University assisted in the creation of a secret
"disinformation" group that asked social media companies to "censor true information, jokes, and political opinions."
Platforms like Facebook and Twitter acquiesced. To no surprise, the pressure campaign disproportionately resulted in the
de-platforming of information disfavorable to, wait for it, Democrats.
The significance of what's happening here cannot be understated.
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