Two former Democrats (now free speech advocates) scolded their party’s shift toward authoritarianism and “dystopian” censorship of dissent.
During the Oct 14 episode of the Keeping it Real podcast, host Jillian Michaels and guest Dave Rubin (host of the Rubin Report) expressed their disgust over the increasing popularity of censorship in America and abroad—and explictly called out high-profile Democrats for wanting to stifle the First Amendment.
“I’m seeing the most alarming things like John Kerry saying the First Amendment is a barrier to the truth,” Michaels said, recounting the recent calls for censorship by prominent Democrat leaders like two former secretaries for State John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. She referred to a forum Kerry participated in during the World Economic Forum, where he openly attacked the First Amendment.
“Hillary Clinton suggesting that people who spread disinformation—which is absolutely like, who's the arbiter of that?— … suggesting people who do that should be criminally prosecuted and charged,” Michaels said. This comment referred to a CNN interview where Clinton called for the overturning of Section 230, and subsequent imprisonment of users.
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Michaels went on to decry the global push for censorship: “This is so deeply alarming and dystopian, as a mom, as a global citizen, we’re seeing this spread into Europe, into Brazil, I don't even consider this political.”
“You have the left knowing the Steele dossier is not real, knowing that the Hunter Biden laptop is real, and then effectively leaning on the media to either censor something or put out disinformation. “That has to come from an extraordinary nefarious agenda,” Michaels said.
Rubin shared an experience of censorship with Michaels. “On July of ‘21, I tweeted out that the vaccines are not working properly, and we’re about to get vaccine mandates, and I got banned on Twitter for that,” he continued. “Elon, once he released the Twitter files, Congressman Jim Jordan from Ohio told me at the capitol, that that tweet was taken down in cahoots with the government”
Ruminating on the current state of the Democratic Party, Rubin continued: “So my First Amendment rights were violated, and you have no recourse. The reason that Hillary wants to reverse the 230 protections is she wants Twitter and Facebook and everybody to be legally liable for all the speech on there because that will force them to have to basically censor everybody.”
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