Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called for Congress to crack down on free speech in yet another authoritarian diatribe.
The disturbing rant is the latest evidence of Clinton's disqualifying tyrannical views - which should really stop her from continuing to weigh in on politics altogether.
During an interview with CNN's Smerconish, Clinton urged Congress to impose more stringent regulation on social media companies or else "we lose control."
Clinton argued that "guardrails" are needed to protect children who use social media for hours a day.
"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.
Democrats have long argued that social media companies are too free, allowing "hate speech" and "disinformation" to propagate.
Clinton called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects platforms from liability for third-party content.
Republicans have also targeted Section 230, arguing it enables social media companies to engage in viewpoint censorship. Democrats have attacked Section 230 from the opposite direction, arguing "content moderation" is not stringent enough.
“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.”
Clinton is not alone in the view that the freedom of speech has become a problem. Former presidential candidate John Kerry recently described the First Amendment as a "major block" to building "consensus" on topics like climate change. Kerry invoked the image of a hammer smashing so-called disinformation "out of existence."
"But look, if people only go to one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence," Kerry said.
In an interview with Rachel Maddow last month, Clinton called for Americans who spread Russian "propaganda" to be jailed.
