Hillary Clinton Calls On Media Companies To Moderate Content Or Risk ‘Losing Control’

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Over the weekend, failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton argued that social media companies must tighten their grip on moderating content or else “we lose total control.”

Clinton told CNN host Michael Smerconish that the federal government has not done enough to moderate content.

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

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

Clinton said she believes the issue should be “at the top of every legislative political agenda” and called for the repealing of Section 230 of the Communications Act, which protects online platforms from being held liable for third-party content, such as user content on social media.

“We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, 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 said.

“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. “And it’s not just the social and psychological affects, it’s real life.”

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Clinton said the social media companies should have their immunity stripped so “guardrails” could be implemented.

She also called for stricter cell phone restrictions in schools, an effort that has been approved by several states in the U.S., including Florida and California.

“Take phones out of schools,” she said. “I’m so happy to see schools beginning to do that, where the kids turn their phone in when they walk in the door.”

Clinton’s remarks sparked a flurry of responses on social media.

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