Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned Saturday on CNN’s “Smerconish” that “we lose complete management” if social media content material will not be extra regulated.
Clinton mentioned, “We want nationwide motion and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional in relation to addressing these threats to our kids. So that you’re completely proper. This ought to be on the high of each legislative, political agenda. There ought to be lots of issues finished. We ought to be, in my opinion, repealing one thing referred to as part 230, which gave platforms on the web immunity as a result of they have been considered simply pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content material that’s posted. However we now know that that was an excessively easy view, that if the platforms, whether or not it’s Fb or Twitter, X or Instagram or TikTok, no matter they’re, in the event that they don’t reasonable and monitor the content material we lose complete management and it’s not simply the social and psychological results it’s actual hurt, it’s little one porn and threats of violence, issues which can be terribly harmful.”
She added, “Take away the immunity from legal responsibility and we have to have guardrails, we want regulation. We’ve carried out an enormous experiment on ourselves and notably our children and I believe the proof is in. We’ve obtained to do extra, take telephones out of colleges. I’m so glad to see colleges starting to try this the place youngsters flip their telephone in after they stroll within the door.”
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