Rep. Khanna on Twitter Censorship: 'Offended The Basic Principles That Our Country is Based On'

KHANNA: “I don’t think what I did was anything exceptional. I was just standing up for our Constitution and for our First Amendment. It is wrong to censor newspapers. It is wrong to censor journalists. Look, the ‘New York Post’ hasn’t written a kind thing about me in my six years in Congress, they’re a conservative point of view paper, but that doesn’t mean that you can stop publishing their pieces or articles or censor their journalists from sharing stories. So, it just offended the basic principles that our country is based on.”

BARTIROMO: “And those principles have been broken over the last few years. Congressman, I want to get your take on the road ahead. What do you want to see to ensure that America’s freedom and liberty stay in place?”

KHANNA: “Well, I’ve said I’m open to hearings in Congress on this. Look, there are two competing values. On the one hand, we don’t want censorship, we don’t want to have people censored or boxed out, shadow-boxed and removed from Twitter because of their viewpoint. On the other hand, we do want respect. I mean, we don’t want accounts that are filled with anti-Semitism or just spewing racism or hate on these accounts. And I think Congress should have a honest, thoughtful conversation about how we uphold both of those values.”