YouTube CEO: Government Should Pass Laws Restricting Free Speech ‘That We Can Implement’By The Heartland Institute
Feb 23, 2022
For more than two centuries, Americans’ right to freedom of speech has been sacrosanct. After all, the First Amendment clearly states, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”
However, over the past few years, as social media has become the default “town square,” we are hearing more and more calls for Congress to pass laws that would restrict Americans’ fundamental right to freedom of speech on social media platforms.
For example, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki recently admitted, “I think governments can always — our recommendation if governments want to have more control of online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined such that we can implement it.”
Wojcicki added, “There are times that we see the laws being implemented or being suggested that they’re not necessarily clean or possible for us to cleanly interpret them. And we’ve also seen sometimes there’s laws passed just for the internet as opposed to for all speech.”
This is a very dangerous development and an affront to the First Amendment.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/heartlandinstitute/2022/02/23/youtube-ceo-government-should-pass-laws-restricting-free-speech-that-we-can-implement-n526416
