Will Kamala Harris attack free speech as president? “In 2019, Kamala Harris promised to direct the Justice Department to” restrict speech on the internet, notes Townhall, including having it do the following things:

• – Counter “extremism” online
• – Bully social media companies into censoring “hate”
• – Take action against online “misinformation”
• – “Police” platforms who pose a “threat to our democracy”

Speaking to the NAACP, Harris endorsed “regulation of social media platforms to force takedown of what officials deem hate and misinformation. That’s a dreadful position inconsistent with our First Amendment liberties,” notes a constitutional expert at the Cato Institute.

Having the Justice Department restrict “misinformation” is a bad idea, because government-funded “disinformation experts” define it to include factually correct information that gives people attitudes viewed as bad by the government, such as an adversarial attitude toward the government. “The government-funded Global Disinformation Index’s stated mission is to stifle ‘disinformation’ it defines as ‘factually correct’ & ‘adversarial narratives’ (like the Covid-19 lab leak),” notes Matt Orfalea. For example, no matter how true something is, if it is “ideologically motivated” and “create[s] a risk of harm” by “targeting at-risk individuals or institutions,” it is deemed disinformation by the Global Disinformation Index.