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Hillary Clinton Gets Roasted After Calling For More Government Regulation On Social Media

Photo of Carmine Sabia Carmine SabiaApril 24, 2022
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was rousted after a recent tweet in which she called for more regulation on social media platforms.

The 2016 Democrat presidential nominee ran into a roasting after she suggested that the United States should follow The European Union in passing laws to hold social media companies accountable “disinformation” on their platforms.

“For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it’s too late,” she said.

This is the same person whose former campaign attorney was indicted by Special Counsel John Durham in the Trump / Russia collusion hoax investigation.

Yahoo News reported:

The European Union approved new legislation that would pressure big tech giants like Meta, Google and Twitter to enforce illegal content on their platforms or potentially risk paying billions in fines.

After some 16 hours of negotiations, the EU reached a deal early Saturday in Brussels on the Digital Services Act, a landmark law requiring companies to more aggressively police their content and take down anything deemed harmful or illegal quickly.

“Our new rules will protect users online, ensure freedom of expression and opportunities for businesses,” EU President Ursula von der Leyen said in a tweet. “What is illegal offline will effectively be illegal online in the EU. A strong signal for people, business & countries worldwide.”

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The EU said that the law “aims to protect the digital space against the spread of illegal content, and to ensure the protection of users’ fundamental rights.”

But Hillary Clinton was not the only prominent politician in the United States to call for more regulation on social media.

She was joined by former President Obama who lamented “Disinformation is a threat to our democracy, and will continue to be unless we work together to address it,” in a tweet before an hourlong speech at Stanford University on the topic.

“It’s up to each of us to decide what we value, and to use the tools we’ve been given to advance those values. I believe we should use every tool at our disposal to secure our greatest gift – a government of, by, and for the people – for generations to come,” the former president said on Twitter.

“Solving the disinformation problem won’t cure all that ails our democracies or tears at the fabric of our world. But it can help rebuild the trust and solidarity needed to make democracy stronger,” he said.

But it was Clinton who got crushed on twitter for her take.

“You know all about DISINFORMATION, don’t you,” conservative writer Kimberly Morin said.

“Translated: Restrict the First Amendment so that Democrats can control the narrative without challenge,” conservative radio host Tim Young said.

“The Steele Dossier would like a word,” another Twitter user said.

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“Let’s start with accountability for your disinformation campaign,” another said.

“Like her co-conspirator Obama, Hillary Clinton also wants the government to regulate and censor speech she doesn’t like,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

.@elonmusk has scared the left so much they now want more government control of speech, conservative writer Dan Gainor said.

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And it certainly sounded like that during former President Obama’s speech.

He said that people do not have to believe false information for it to damage democracy, but that having enough of it can do the job.

“You just have to flood a country’s public square with enough raw sewage,” the former president said. “You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt, plant enough conspiracy theorizing, that citizens no longer know what to believe.”

And he said it starts with revising Section 230 which gives social media giants immunity from what its users say.

“Without some standards, the implications of this technology for our elections, for our legal system, for our democracy, for rules of evidence, for our entire social order, are frightening and profound,” he said.

True. If we do not stop people from speaking Democrats could lose.

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Photo of Carmine Sabia Carmine SabiaApril 24, 2022