Hillary Clinton calls for more censorship of Americans on social media or 'we lose total control'

Hillary Clinton has called for social media companies to take stronger actions in censoring content on their platforms, warning that without moderation, “We lose total control.”

During a recent discussion on CNN, Clinton stated, “We need national action and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children. So you’re absolutely right. This should be at the top of every legislative, political agenda.”

She went on to advocate for the repeal of Section 230, a key provision of US law that grants immunity to internet platforms from liability for content posted by users. “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. But we now know that that was an overly simple view,” she explained. 

“If the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, 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, it’s child porn and threats of violence, things that are terribly dangerous,” Clinton added.

The Supreme Court has previously ruled to keep Section 230 in place. The law states in part that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider," and "No cause of action may be brought and no liability may be imposed under any State or local law that is inconsistent with this section." 

While Clinton added stipulations about content that is related to illegal or violent content, her comments come as part of her broader efforts to call for a crackdown on so-called “misinformation” on social media. Last month, the former first lady and secretary of state suggested on MSNBC that Americans could be “civilly or even in some cases criminally charged" for certain posts in an effort to establish deterrence.