The First Amendment – the cornerstone of American democracy guaranteeing us freedom of speech, among other freedoms – is apparently quite inconvenient for the globalists at the World Economic Forum, and former U.S. Secretary of State and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry openly expressed his frustration toward this basic right in a speech at the UN.

Speaking during the World Economic Forum’s “Sustainable Development Impact Meetings” at the UN General Assembly, he explained how the Constitution is impeding them in achieving their global dominance by controlling the public narrative.

He said: “Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to hammer [disinformation] out of existence. What we need is to win…the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”

“It’s very hard to govern today,” he added.

It’s pretty easy to read between the lines here and see that what he is really referring to is their ability to censor people through partnerships with governments, Big Tech, fact checkers and the mainstream media.

It appears that the same leftists who worked overtime trying to convince people that anything that goes against their preferred narratives is misinformation are panicking as more people start to seek out the truth and opt for platforms like X over those known to have colluded with the government in the past, like Facebook.

Their main fear is that when people have the freedom to seek out alternative information and make up their own minds about issues with all the facts in front of them, they will be much harder to control – which poses no small threat to those in power and seeking to hold onto it.

We’ve heard similar complaints from the mainstream media recently. For example, at a World Economic Forum meeting held earlier this year, Wall Street Journal Chief Editor Emma Tucker lamented the fact that the days of the mainstream media owning the news were coming to a close as people seek alternative sources instead of just being spoon-fed official government narratives.

She stated: “We owned the news. We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well. If it said it in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, then that was a fact. Nowadays, people can go to all sorts of different sources for the news, and they’re much more questioning about what we’re saying.”

Isn’t that a good thing?

Brazil tries to bully X into censoring political speech

It’s not just an American problem, however. Last month, X’s Global Government Affairs account warned that Brazilian users could lose access to the platform after a Supreme Court judge there, Alexandre de Moraes, punished them after they refused to comply with his “illegal orders to censor his political opponents.”

They wrote: “We are absolutely not insisting that other countries have the same free speech laws as the United States. The fundamental issue at stake here is that Judge de Moraes demands we break Brazil’s own laws. We simply won’t do that.”

After vowing to publish the judge’s demands in the interest of transparency, they took a shot at their competitors’ willingness to play along with these demands from governments, noting: “Unlike other social media and technology platforms, we will not comply in secret with illegal orders.”

Sources for this article include:

ZeroHedge.com

ZeroHedge.com