Hillary Clinton: We Should Be Repealing Section 230; ‘If They Don‘t Moderate and Monitor the Content, We Lose Total Control’

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SMERCONISH: “So I was happy to see you cite the work of Robert Putnam bowling alone made an impact on me. The discussion of social capital of the state. I‘m sure the rotamer enjoyed and park ridge, right participation belonging, volunteerism. That is so missing today, you cite johnathan height, you cite Jean 20 here‘s what disappoints me and it‘s not about you, madam secretary. I‘m shocked that no person, no Republican, no Democrat is championing this issue. The social sciences so clear the political sciences so clear. Our fabric is frayed as a nation. Our kids are disconnected too much time behind closed doors on devices and not enough time replicating the experience of their parents and grandparents. So what do we do about it? What do we do about it for your grandkids?”

Clinton: “Well, Michael, there are people who are championing it, but it‘s been a long and difficult road to get anything done actually, we can look at the state of California, the state of on New York. I think some other states have also taken action, but we need national action. And sadly, our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children‘s. so you‘re absolutely right. This should be at the top of every legislative, political agenda. There should be a lot one of things done. 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 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 that 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 rearm, it‘s child porn and threats of violence, things that are terribly dangerous. So I couldn‘t agree with you more. We need to remove the immunity from liability and we need to have guardrails. We need regulation we‘ve conducted this big bearman on ourselves and particularly our kids. And I think the evidence is in that we‘ve got to do more, take phones out of schools. I‘m so happy to see schools beginning to do that where the kids turn their phone and when they walk in the door and guess what, Michael little, it won‘t surprise you because you‘re on this on kids are paying better attention in class, they are talking to each other in the lunch room.”