When CBS moderators harped on the events of Jan. 6, Republican 2024 Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance came out swinging, addressing a real threat to democracy: the assault by Big Tech and the left on Americans’ First Amendment Rights.

During Tuesday night’s 2024 Vice Presidential Debate candidates Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) covered a host of topics including questions on immigration, abortion, child care, health care, immigration and Iran’s recent attack on America’s ally Israel. But Sen. Vance also spoke up about the dire state of Americans’ free speech rights. “I believe we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately it's not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about,” Vance said. “It is the threat of censorship.”

Vance proceeded to blast Harris and Big Tech companies for their abysmal pro-censorship record. “It's big technology companies silencing their fellow citizens. And it's Kamala Harris saying that rather than debate and persuade her fellow Americans, she’d like to censor people who engage in misinformation,” Vance said. “I think that's a much bigger threat to democracy than anything we've seen in this country in the last four years in the last 40 years.” 

The Ohio senator mentioned that former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard had endorsed former President Donald Trump’s campaign over his support for free speech. “We are united behind a basic American First Amendment principle that we ought to debate our differences, we ought to argue about them, we ought to try to persuade our fellow Americans,” Vance told CBS viewers. 

Then Vance let Harris have it. “Kamala Harris is engaged in censorship at an industrial scale. She did it during COVID. She has done it on a number of issues and that to me is a much bigger threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said that protestors should protest peacefully.” 

The Republican Vice Presidential nominee went after the left for hypocritically purporting to defend democracy while failing to protect “the most sacred right under the United States democracy” the First Amendment. 

Vance even took Walz to task for his infamous remark that “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.”

Vance went on to say that “Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and Big Tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. I would like Democrats and Republicans to both reject censorship.”

This request was too much for Walz, who tried to excuse this relentless wave of censorship by saying that you can’t “yell fire in a crowded theater.” 

Walz ultimately ignored the substance of Vance’s remarks and the fact that seven federal agencies have colluded with Big Tech to silence Americans’ speech. The Twitter Files also exposed federal pressure on Twitter to silence so-called misinformation and disinformation and Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently apologized for bowing to such pressure on his platforms. 

Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on so-called hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.