He alleged European Union “commissars” were suppressing free speech.
One of his absurd gripes was a two hundred metre exclusion zone around abortion clinics. It seems that his idea of free speech is that people should be free to harass people going to an abortion centre. This harassment includes silent prayer. Is that really Free Speech? To allow a bunch of religious nutcases to congregate around the entrance to abortion clinics to harass young girls seeking advice or terminations? A large number of people, even indulging in silent prayer, is highly intimidating to young girls in highly emotional state. I don’t see this as a free speech issue. The girls have rights too! The right to not be harassed has nothing to do with free speech.
This seems staggeringly hypocritical.
According to JD Vance and the Trumpian MAGA movement Free Speech means the removal of all Fact Checking on social platforms. This means that conspiracy theories, propaganda and deliberate misinformation can be freely disseminated without any attempt to pull someone up for deliberately lying. Nobody is to be held to account. Is this Free Speech? (Of course, lies and conspiracy have been the vehicles through which Trump has deliberately stirred up fear and hate. It’s his currency. MAGA thrives on lies.) Their idea of Free Speech is the right to deliberately spread disinformation!
According to JD Vance and the Trumpian MAGA Movement it is OK to check phones at borders and refuse entry to anyone with views they disagree with. That’s not a suppression of Free Speech.
According to JD Vance and the Trumpian MAGA Movement it is OK to arrest people who oppose their views. This is not a suppression of Free Speech.
In The MAGA world suppression of alternative views is not about free speech at all. In the MAGA World you are entitled to believe what you like as long as it is not critical of them!
Free speech! As long as you conform!