Vance Calls Out Democrats' First Amendment Crackdown: 'Harris Is Engaged in Censorship on an Industrial Scale' | 2 Oct 2024 | Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, called out Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., for wanting to implement a mass censorship regime, blocking Americans from practicing their First Amendment rights. "I believe we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country. Unfortunately, it's not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about. It is the threat of censorship," Vance said at Tuesday night's vice presidential debate. "It's Kamala Harris saying that rather than debating and persuading fellow Americans, she would like to censor people who engage in misinformation. That's a bigger threat to democracy than anything we've seen in the last four years or 40 years." Walz has said in the past "there's not guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy," despite the fact that both "misinformation" and "hate speech" are entirely protected by the First Amendment.