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Gillibrand: ‘You Don’t Have to Regulate Speech, You Can Regulate Misinformation’ So People Don’t ‘Develop Such Hatred’ as Buffalo Shooter
Breitbart ^ | 05/16/2022 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 05/16/2022 5:51:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

During an interview on MSNBC on Monday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) argued that social media platforms should be regulated, but “You don’t have to regulate speech, you can regulate misinformation. You could say, you can’t yell ‘Fire!’ in a theater.” There are “many ways you can abrogate speech rights that are consistent with the Constitution.” And that for “an 18-year-old to develop such hatred in his heart through media platforms that do not have any regulation is a problem. And so, we need commonsense, thoughtful regulation.”

Gillibrand stated, “The problem is, you have a mentally ill 18-year-old who had this kind of ideation, who falls into rabbit holes within our social media platforms that aren’t regulated and have no basis, in terms –.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; buffalo; elonmusk; gillibrand; kirstengillibrand; misinformation; musk; newyork; speech; truthsocial; twitter
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That's some powerful stupid.
1 posted on 05/16/2022 5:51:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They don’t care how stupid the reasons are for cracking down on free thought 🤪


2 posted on 05/16/2022 5:53:04 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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Did she ride the short bus with the candy windows to school?


3 posted on 05/16/2022 5:54:29 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The dhimmicraps have NO concept of thoughtful regulation, on ANY subject.


4 posted on 05/16/2022 5:55:02 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
That's some powerful stupid.

That's why I call her Jelly-Brain. Jello between the ears, not cerebral matter.

5 posted on 05/16/2022 5:56:33 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He’s your Communist, Jilly Brand. Own it.


6 posted on 05/16/2022 5:58:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What is so sad is that Kirsten Gillibrand, an idiot that cannot be denied, can continue to be re-elected only because her constituents are even stupider.


7 posted on 05/16/2022 5:58:45 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: ChicagoConservative27

TWITTER engineer just admitted they are commies at twitter and really only censor the right.


8 posted on 05/16/2022 5:59:53 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Left is coming for our Rights.


9 posted on 05/16/2022 5:59:56 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Grow up Kirsten. You can’t be a ditzy bimbo all of your life.


10 posted on 05/16/2022 6:00:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course none of this will apply to the gang culture thats currently completely out of control


11 posted on 05/16/2022 6:00:53 PM PDT by ALX
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....who falls into rabbit holes ...


How about solving the Homeless crisis first? Let us know how easy that is to do.


12 posted on 05/16/2022 6:01:19 PM PDT by rbg81
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The shooter’s “disinformation” was when he was told over and over that socialism is totally awesome. But the left doesn’t want to ban that kind of speech.


13 posted on 05/16/2022 6:01:22 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Depends on the meaning of ‘misinformation’.
Your misinformation may not stand up to my misinformation.

WTH decides? The leftist commies?


14 posted on 05/16/2022 6:04:31 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Riiiight, and let me guess what groups constitute the most
significant production of misinformation in the U. S.?

Wait for it... wait for it...

Conservatives!

Who saw that coming? /s


15 posted on 05/16/2022 6:08:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We put these people in Congress. What a shame.


16 posted on 05/16/2022 6:09:41 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Senator, and I use that term loosely, the First Amendment is to protect unpopular speech, not the speech you approve of.


17 posted on 05/16/2022 6:15:42 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There are “many ways you can abrogate speech rights that are consistent with the Constitution.”
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Sounds like the people who argue that the children of foreigners born here but with foreign nationality are still natural born citizens even though the purpose of that clause is to prevent foreigners from being CIC.


18 posted on 05/16/2022 6:16:33 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"And so, we need commonsense, thoughtful regulation.”

Cool! Common sense gun control. Common sense speech control. Common sense control of all those pesky first ten amendments.

19 posted on 05/16/2022 6:19:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Who is Jesus level purity of judgement to determine what is truth and what is a lie?

Does the left lay claim to this ability in their messiah complex rant? Better get that looked at by a shrink before the frustration blossoms into another mass shooting (by another lefty).


20 posted on 05/16/2022 6:21:25 PM PDT by USCG SimTech ( )
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