In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton raised alarms about the unchecked spread of controversial narratives on social media, particularly regarding conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and elite pedophilia. Speaking with CNN's Michael Smerconish, Clinton expressed her frustration with platforms like X (formerly Twitter) for allowing unfiltered information to circulate, suggesting that without censorship, the establishment risks losing its grip on public discourse. This statement ignites a heated conversation about the balance between freedom of expression and the responsibility of platforms to manage harmful content.
Hillary Clinton has warned that if social media companies don’t censor stories about Pizzagate and elite pedophilia then the establishment risk “losing total control” of the narrative.
Speaking with Michael Smerconish on CNN last week, Clinton complained that the lack of censorship on platforms like X is infuriating.
“We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted,” Clinton stated.
Infowars.com reports: “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, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control, and it’s not just the social and psychological effects, it’s real harm.”
Online censorship has taken a major hit after Elon Musk bought out Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as the free speech platform X, which has largely been able to mitigate phony mainstream media narratives and expose suppressed information in real time, with the latest example being FEMA’s failed response to the hurricane-hit areas of North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee.
Musk in particular has been sounding the alarm about Democrat efforts to end free speech after John Kerry openly stated the First Amendment would be changed if Democrats win the election.
“The Democratic Party is openly stating that they want to change the Constitution to end free speech!” he warned Saturday on X.
Kerry, like Clinton, recently lamented the fact that the First Amendment has been making it difficult for the establishment to maintain control of the flow of information.
“It’s really hard to govern today. The referees we used to have to determine what’s a fact and what isn’t a fact has been eviscerated to a certain degree,” Kerry said during a World Economic Forum sustainability meeting. “And then people go and they self-select where they go for their news and for their information, and then you just get into a vicious cycle.”
“And there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts,” he added.
Watch Clinton’s full remarks:
As of October 2024, discussions surrounding social media censorship and free speech have intensified, especially following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter and its transformation into a platform that champions free speech. Figures like Musk and John Kerry have expressed concerns about the challenges of governance in the digital age, with Kerry noting the difficulty of discerning facts in an era of self-curated news consumption. The ongoing debate pits the need for accountability against the fundamental right to free speech, making this a crucial topic as the political landscape evolves.