Hillary Clinton called for the government to crack down on social media, prompting social media users to accuse her of saying “the quiet part out loud.”
The former Secretary of State spoke with CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday and issued a disturbing warning that leaders could “lose control” if they don’t take serious steps to censor digital content.
‘Democrats view the Internet as a propaganda tool rather than a medium for open exchange of information!!’ Tom Callahan wrote in X.
“They are afraid of being exposed, accused and imprisoned,” Wendy Stone added. “I hope we make your fears come true.”
Clinton sparked the outcry by calling on the federal government to follow states like California and New York in imposing more controls on social media.
“We need national action and unfortunately our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children,” Clinton said.
Clinton raised the issue in the context of more controlling what children experienced on social media and becoming addicted to content on major platforms.
He called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Act, which prevents online platforms from being responsible for content posted by users on their platforms.
That legal exception, he argued, was an “overly simplistic view” that did not take into account the dangers of social media.
“(I)f the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control,” he said.
Clinton spoke with CNN host Michael Smerconish on Saturday and called on the federal government to put more controls on social media.
Clinton said the reforms she proposed would help protect children.
‘It’s not just the social and psychological effects, it’s real damage. “It’s child pornography and threats of violence, terribly dangerous things,” he said.
Clinton said that if legal protections were removed, social platforms would spend more time and money monitoring their own content.
“We need to have guardrails, we need regulation,” he said.
The former failed presidential candidate spoke about her new book to warn about many of the dangers emerging in communities across the country.
She admitted that many of the changes she proposed would require Democrats to have power in the federal government, so they could focus their attention on issues she cared about.
“Let’s hope that the elections go well, that the fever goes down and we can try again to put our families and communities on the right path,” he said.
In September, Clinton called for more controls on online activity.
Since first losing her lifelong dream of becoming the first female president of the United States to former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, Clinton has blamed the rise of “misinformation” and “fake news” for convincing to voters not to trust her. .
In September, Clinton called for more controls on online activity, specifically against Americans who were paid by foreign countries to spread propaganda online.
“We are only at the beginning of understanding the whole iceberg,” he said, warning the Russians to deploy “more sophisticated” operations to influence the United States.
Clinton proposed during an interview on MSNBC that the US government prosecute Americans for sharing information and propaganda on behalf of foreign governments.
“I also believe that there are Americans involved in this type of propaganda and whether they should be charged civilly or, in some cases, criminally, would be a better deterrent,” he said.