YOUTUBE | GLENN BECK | OCTOBER 23, 2024
A recent poll found that 69 percent of Americans fear we are heading in the wrong direction when it comes to free speech and our First Amendment rights. With freedom of expression being so tantamount to what makes America that ‘shining city on a hill,’ which 2024 presidential candidate can YOU trust to protect those rights: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? In Part 2 of ‘Election Facts for the Undecided,’ you’ll learn everything about free speech, what is and what is not protected by our Constitution, Trump and Kamala’s past actions either furthering or hindering those rights, and each candidate’s plan moving forward if either wins the White House this November.
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0:00 freedom is never more than one
0:01 generation away from Extinction it has
0:05 to be fought for and defended by each
0:09 generation a recent poll found that 69%
0:12 of Americans believe America is heading
0:14 in the wrong direction when it comes to
0:16 freely expressing your beliefs thanks to
0:19 our first amendment the right to freely
0:21 express your thoughts and opinions is
0:23 undoubtedly one of the qualities that
0:24 makes America America it’s the reason
0:27 why Martin Luther King Jr was able to
0:29 use his ey Have a Dream speech to
0:30 motivate millions of Americans during
0:32 the Civil Rights Movement it’s why
0:34 Vietnam protesters could legally burn
0:36 the US flag and why just a few years ago
0:39 millions of Americans could take to the
0:41 streets in the George Floyd protest
0:43 without fear of
0:45 repercussion so if these rights are so
0:48 vital to what makes America the country
0:49 it is why does so many of us fear we’re
0:52 losing them and which candidate will
0:54 continue to protect the First Amendment
0:56 moving forward this is election fact for
0:58 the undecided voter
1:01 part two free
1:02 [Music]
1:04 speech first off why should you care
1:07 well as I explained earlier freedom of
1:09 thought speech and expression are core
1:11 tenants to what makes America so special
1:14 and secondly if the health of our Free
1:16 Speech rides begins to worsen the
1:18 slippery slope in which we could lose
1:20 those rides all together is much too
1:22 steep here’s an example according to
1:25 Human Rights Watch over the last 12
1:27 years the Russian government has
1:28 intensified its C crack town on
1:30 extremist language all in an effort they
1:33 say to stifle terrorism that sounds like
1:36 a good goal right but Russia used those
1:39 laws to eliminate press critical of
1:41 President Putin and some translations of
1:43 the Quran were outlawed too when Iraq
1:46 band station in anti-putin performance
1:48 in 2012 inside a cathedral they were
1:50 arrested for hooliganism and religious
1:52 hatred and two of the members were sent
1:54 to jail for 21 months so now let’s get
1:57 to the basics what writs do you
2:00 have there are some forms of expression
2:04 not protected by the Constitution like
2:06 obscenity false advertising oh and
2:08 remember Coke is low in calories too
2:10 threatening language with the true
2:12 intention of causing harm and anything
2:14 false it damages the reputation of
2:15 someone Nick Sandman according to his
2:17 attorneys defamed by several national
2:19 news outlets and if you are partaking in
2:21 freedom of expression in the form of a
2:23 protest for example and you begin to act
2:26 violently or break the law in any other
2:27 way that also is not protected
2:31 almost anything else and you should be
2:33 good to go yes even if what you’re
2:35 saying is 100% false or is hurtful or
2:38 hateful to another group of people
2:41 speaking of false let’s dive into
2:43 misinformation is a term you’ve likely
2:45 heard over and over again for the last
2:47 several years dangerous misinformation
2:49 election disinformation continued
2:51 misinformation it’s disinformation Miss
2:54 or disinformation really just means
2:56 false information that’s being spread we
2:59 saw it being used used a lot during the
3:00 co pandemic when Big Town companies like
3:03 Facebook announced they’d be removing
3:05 misinformation about the virus from
3:07 their platform but here’s the thing a
3:10 lot of the information being classified
3:12 as misinformation or as baseless
3:15 conspiracy theories eventually turned
3:17 out to be true a conspiracy that Corona
3:20 virus was man-made in a lab in Wuhan
3:22 China the head of the FBI in the United
3:24 States has said the Corona virus
3:26 pandemic is most likely to have emerged
3:29 from a Chinese laboratory you might
3:31 think the intent to stop false
3:32 information is a good thing but remember
3:35 Putin and how he used the cover of
3:38 fighting extremist language to prosecute
3:41 Russians who were speaking out against
3:44 him do you trust our politicians left or
3:47 right not to do the same if you do 100%
3:51 trust them well you can stop this video
3:53 here if not then which candidate is most
3:56 likely to be an advocate for your free
3:58 speech rights moving forward
4:00 even if that Free Speech goes against
4:02 what their Administration believes
4:04 they’ve both called out falsities being
4:06 spread online or by the media we are
4:08 fighting the fake news it’s fake phony
4:12 fake if you act as a megaphone for
4:16 misinformation we are going to hold you
4:20 accountable many on the left believe
4:22 that if Trump wins free speech is over
4:25 during his time in office chump used his
4:27 free speed dri to call it a lot of a
4:29 journalist for reporting what Heth
4:31 claimed were lies about him and his
4:33 administration the left uses examples
4:35 like this I called the fake news the
4:38 enemy of the people and they are to
4:40 prove their point saying the words he’s
4:42 using are threads to democracy but did
4:44 he act on those words possibly once in
4:48 2018 the White House asked CNN reporter
4:50 Caitlyn Collins not to an attend event
4:52 with the rest of the White House Press
4:54 pool that day CNN and most of the media
4:57 reported it as a ban against Collins but
4:59 the White House says they never used the
5:01 word ban they asked her not to attend
5:03 thanks to inappropriate decorum they
5:06 believed she Illustrated earlier in the
5:08 day Trump has also advocated for a
5:11 proposal that would require one year of
5:13 jail time for someone who burns the
5:14 American flag something most free speech
5:16 absolutists would disagree with and he
5:19 suggested that media organizations that
5:21 lie should have their licenses
5:23 challenged to be clear the president of
5:25 the United States does not have the
5:27 right to pull TV licenses and even
5:29 furthermore news networks don’t even
5:31 have licenses to begin with during the
5:34 co pandemic Trump sided with religious
5:36 institutions fighting against state
5:38 regulations trying to close them down he
5:40 also passed an executive order requiring
5:42 that any college campus receiving
5:44 Federal funding for things like research
5:47 must also support the quote free inquiry
5:49 of ideas among its students so what
5:52 about kamla she and her supporters have
5:55 spoken repeatedly about censoring
5:57 misinformation on social media platforms
6:00 they are directly speaking to millions
6:02 and millions of people without any level
6:06 of of of oversight or regulation and
6:09 that has to stop these big platforms
6:11 need to be subject to some level of
6:13 public oversight and regulation
6:15 Americans who are uh engaged in uh this
6:20 kind of propaganda and whether they
6:22 should be civy or even in some cases
6:25 criminally charged uh is something that
6:27 would be a better deterrence her ring
6:30 mate Tim wall said this in 2022 I think
6:34 we need to push back on this there
6:35 there’s no guaranteed to free speech on
6:37 misinformation or or hate speech and
6:39 especially around our democracy he
6:41 doubled down won question about that
6:42 clip by his opponent Trump’s running
6:44 mate JD Vance the most sacred right
6:47 under the United States democracy is the
6:49 first amendment you yourself have said
6:51 there’s no First Amendment right to
6:53 misinformation kamla Harris wants to
6:56 use you can’t yell fire in a crowded
6:58 theater that’s that’s the test that’s
7:00 the Supreme Court test Tim fire in a
7:02 crowded theater you guys wanted to kick
7:04 people off of Facebook for saying that
7:06 toddler shouldn’t his supporters said
7:08 this CP was taken out of context but
7:11 even if so false or hateful language is
7:13 protected by the Constitution when
7:15 questioned about a report that accused
7:17 the Biden Harris administration of
7:19 working with big Tech to censor post
7:21 they deemed inaccurate the
7:23 administration neither confirmed or
7:24 denied combating disinformation that is
7:27 something that uh we are committed to so
7:29 you are flagging uh misinformation as I
7:33 don’t have anything more to add this is
7:34 a department of of Homeland Security
7:36 that I refer to and again they have
7:38 advocated for doing more of that we will
7:40 hold social media platforms accountable
7:44 for the hate infiltrating their
7:46 platforms because they have a
7:48 responsibility in April 2022 the Biden
7:51 Administration announced that
7:53 disinformation governance board which
7:55 the White House said would combat
7:56 misinformation malformation and disin
7:59 information that threatened us security
8:02 after public outcry and loss of
8:04 comparisons to the book 1984 the plans
8:06 were shut
8:07 down so we know what each candidate has
8:10 said in the past but what are the
8:12 candidates plans moving forward if they
8:13 win the White House chub’s campaign
8:16 website features a five-part plan to
8:17 combat censorship especially censorship
8:20 online among big Tech platforms he says
8:23 he will sign an executive order that
8:25 bans any federal department or agency
8:28 from working alongside big Tech to
8:30 monitor or impede free speech and he
8:32 said he would fire any federal
8:33 bureaucrat who engaged in domestic
8:35 censorship under the Harris regime
8:38 comm’s website does have a section on
8:40 freedoms including the freedom to vote
8:42 the freedom from discrimination
8:44 reproductive freedoms and the quote
8:46 freedom to love who you love openly with
8:48 pride her website does not mention
8:50 freedom of speech or the First Amendment
8:53 those are the facts now it’s time for
8:55 you to decide
Last Updated on October 30, 2024 by Real KBrett