Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared that social media companies must moderate content or else “we lose total control.”
Speaking to CNN’s Michael Smerconish, Clinton said, “We can look at the state of California, the state of New York, I think some other states have also taken action,” adding, “But we need national action, and sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children.”
“We should be in 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.”
Section 230 protects online platforms from being liable for user content on social media.
“But we now know that is an overly simple view that if the platforms whether it is Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok or whatever they are,” she explained. “If they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.”
Clinton went on to advocate for phones being removed from schools.
“We’ve conducted a big experiment on ourselves and particularly our kids and I think the evidence is in,” she said. “We’ve got to do more, take phones out of schools. I’m so happy to see schools beginning to do that where kids turn their phone in when they walk in the door.”
