Hillary Clinton Criticizes First Amendment, Calls for Social Media Regulation [Video]

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a twice-failed presidential candidate,  echoed cynical calls from Democratic politicians for regulation and censorship of social media platforms.

On a Saturday interview with CNN host Michael Smerconish, Clinton railed against the First Amendment, praising New York and California for their harsh crackdown on free speech and calling for similar “national action.” She specifically beseeched, “We need to have guardrails., We need to have regulation.”

Clinton expressed her fear if regulation of speech is not implemented on a national level, lamenting, “If they don’t moderate or monitor content, we lose total control.”

Clinton rebuked Section 230, calling it “overly simple” and went on to demand harsher “judgment“ for content posted on social media platforms. “We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity.” 

Dan Schneider, vice president of Free Speech America at MRC, responded to Clinton’s comments with dismay. “Hillary …