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From Fox Business: X owner Elon Musk and former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed on social media that Vice President Kamala Harris would want to “shut down” X if it can’t be made to conform to government oversight.
The two figures backing former President Trump shared a clip from an interview Harris had with CNN in 2019 after a Democratic presidential primary debate, where she blasted social media sites for “directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight and regulation,” something she said “has to stop.”
“Translation: If they don’t police content to conform to government-approved narratives, they will be shut down,” Kennedy said, characterizing Harris’ statements from the five-year-old clip.
A clip of the interview went viral on X this week, as Harris’ critics pointed to it as supposed evidence of how the vice president would stifle free speech on social media platforms if elected president.
In the 2019 interview, Harris was actually speaking about her demand that then-President Donald Trump’s Twitter account be shut down.
“And when you’re talking about Donald Trump, he has 65 million Twitter followers, he has proven himself to be willing to obstruct justice – just ask Bob Mueller. You can look at the manifesto from the shooter in El Paso to know that what Donald Trump says on Twitter impacts peoples’ perceptions about what they should and should not do,” she raged.
“He [Trump] has lost his privileges and it should be taken down… and the bottom line is that you can’t say that you have one rule for Facebook and you have a different rule for Twitter. The same rule has to apply, which is that there has to be a responsibility that is placed on these social media sites to understand their power,” Harris declared, adding, “They are speaking to millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation. And that has to stop.”
WATCH BELOW:
Kamala will shut down X if she wins pic.twitter.com/sML999zQlB
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) August 30, 2024
Kennedy incorrectly assumed Harris was saying Elon Musk “lost his privileges.” However, Harris WAS calling for government oversight of all social media companies.
Kamala Harris: “He [Musk] has lost his privileges.”
Can someone please explain to her that freedom of speech is a RIGHT, not a “privilege”?Kamala Harris: “There has to be a responsibility placed on these social media sites to understand their power.”
Translation: “If they… https://t.co/BzuTYoJjuV— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 2, 2024
Elon Musk responded with the warning: “This is what she actually believes. Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and the Democratic Party (Kamala is just a puppet) wants to destroy it.”
This is what she actually believes.
Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and the Democratic Party (Kamala is just a puppet) wants to destroy it. https://t.co/kntGcq2WnK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 3, 2024
DISTURBING FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris went on rampage, called for Trump to be banned from Twitter
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