Hillary Clinton: ‘We Lose Total Control’ If Social Media Companies Don’t ‘Moderate’ Content

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during an interview over the weekend that there needed to be more regulation and censorship on the internet or else the government will lose “control.”

Clinton made the remarks during a Saturday appearance on CNN’s “Smerconish” with host Michael Smerconish while talking about social initiatives that Clinton wants to see society engage in.

“We can look at the state of California, the state of New York, I think some other states have also taken action,” Clinton began.

“But we need national action, and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children,” she said.

She said that the issue should be “at the top of every legislative political agenda.”

“We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity,” she said. “Because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted.”

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“But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if 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,” she continued.

She said that the companies needed their immunity to be removed so that “guardrails” could be put into place.

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Hillary: “We should be in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity … Whether it‘s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram, or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don‘t moderate & monitor the content we lose total control” pic.twitter.com/s3ymPSIkBZ

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“Take phones out of schools,” she added, an effort that has been spearheaded by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. “I’m so happy to see schools beginning to do that, where the kids turn their phone in when they walk in the door.”

“And guess what? Kids are paying better attention in class,” she added. “They are talking to each other in the lunchroom, things that used to be part of your daily life when you were a child in school.”