Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), a staunch free speech advocate, has been announced as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate, potentially placing First Amendment issues at the forefront of the 2024 election.
“We need strong Republicans to stand up to the censorship industrial complex,” Vance wrote in a 2022 X post. He also publicly critiqued a harsh censorship bill in Ireland and condemned Big Tech censorship online.
In May 2023, Vance himself was censored. “You can’t make this up: Mailchimp suspended my press team’s account after we announced President Trump’s support for the Railway Safety Act,” Vance wrote. “But big tech censorship won’t stop us from fighting for the people of East Palestine.” The latter refers to the toxic spill accident in an Ohio town, to which the government has been accused of giving a delayed and…
