Joe Rogan shares an ominous prediction about the state of free speech if Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz win the November election, saying the Democratic ticket is the U.S. Constitution. They argued that it posed a serious threat to the First Amendment.
In a conversation with former Navy SEAL, former CIA contractor and podcaster Sean Ryan on Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan spoke about the alarming trends in censorship in the United States. I expressed my thoughts on the matter.
Regarding censorship trends, Logan said, “I don’t think things will get better even if Kamala Harris becomes president,” and “I think censorship will get even tougher.”
“What they were trying to do on Twitter, they’re going to try to do with other things,” Logan added. “They’re already openly discussing it. She’s openly discussing that the same rules that apply to Facebook need to apply to Twitter. And Elon Musk could lose his privileges.” be.”
Elon Musk echoed Rogan’s opinion on X.
Tesla’s CEO reposted the podcast clip and added the message, “Joe is absolutely right.”
In a 2022 podcast appearance, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Rogan that the federal government (including FBI officials) is pressuring social media giants to censor certain content in the lead-up to the 2020 election. revealed that.
The government’s influence reached a fever pitch following the Post’s exclusive reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The report was infamously censored on both Facebook and X (formerly Twitter).
In 2023, Twitter files revealed the extent to which federal officials influenced the social media site’s content moderators, particularly an article about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Rogan skewered Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Thursday’s podcast episode.
“They’re making some very outlandish statements. Tim Walz said the First Amendment doesn’t apply to misinformation or hate speech. Well, that’s true. That’s true. . People will say the wrong thing. The goal of the First Amendment is, “You’re saying something wrong, and this person who’s an expert is saying the right thing.” And then you have to fix it.”
Walz appeared on MSNBC’s “The Read Out” in 2022 and said: There is no guarantee of free speech when it comes to misinformation and hate speech, especially when it comes to our democracy. ”
Constitutional scholars argue that “hate speech” is actually protected by the First Amendment.
Rogan’s criticism of the Harris-Waltz ticket came after the podcaster accused MSNBC of deceptively editing a video to make it seem like the vice president was the inevitable winner of the election.
Left-wing media outlets spliced together two separate clips, one in which Mr. Rogan spoke favorably of Ms. Harris and one in which the podcaster praised former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
“I’m not suing MSNBC,” Rogan said at the beginning of his podcast in August. About Kamala Harris. ”
Rogan added of MSNBC: “But they don’t care about the truth. They just want to get the story out to enough people so they can get more superficial readers.”
Logan has not yet endorsed a political candidate for the 2024 presidential election.