The world’s biggest advocates for censorship want to destroy the First Amendment in the U.S., and some Democrats are happy to help.
At the World Economic Forum, the “Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency”
predicted
that hate speech regulations would be coming to the U.S. soon enough. “Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S., I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law,” Vera Jourova said.
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European Commission VP Věra Jourová at the WEF:
“Illegal hate speech, which you will have soon also in the U.S. I think that we have a strong reason why we have this in the criminal law.” pic.twitter.com/iLR1MePTYT
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) January 17, 2023
She directed those comments to Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), who offered no objections. Moulton later justified censorship by peddling the
pro-censorship line
about yelling fire in a crowded theater — a line that the Supreme Court has actually rejected in its first amendment jurisprudence.
In a Davos panel on “disinformation,” @RepMoulton says that Americans learn in grade school that “yelling fire in a crowded theater” is not protected free speech. While Americans may learn it, this is not true. @DailyCaller https://t.co/gx0YkoWjU3 pic.twitter.com/iqbsfW0aNR
— Ailan Evans (@AilanHEvans) January 17, 2023
Moulton is not alone. With global elites gathered in Davos, Switzerland to call for more censorship alongside American journalists and politicians, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
introduced
a bill to ban “hate speech” that would perpetuate “white supremacy.” Who gets to decide what is “white supremacy” and therefore banned speech? Why Sheila Jackson Lee, of course, along with her Democratic colleagues, who are quick to label anything they don’t like as “white supremacy.” They even
throw that label at black Republicans
.
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What Jackson Lee is calling for is an end to the First Amendment entirely. She wants us to be like those more tolerant Europeans who arrest people for social media posts that hurt someone’s feelings. It is a full abandonment of the concept of free speech and of America itself. Jackson Lee’s bill isn’t even the first step toward this goal: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used his position on the House Intelligence Committee to
pressure
and tacitly threaten Twitter to censor people he disliked.
Of course, if Democrats like Jackson Lee are so eager to gut the First Amendment and empower the government to censor broad categories of unprotected speech, we should have that debate. That is the beauty of free speech, after all. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy should bring Jackson Lee’s bill up for a vote. Let’s have Democrats go on the record against the First Amendment, against free speech, on the side of Europe’s elites.
