Hillary Clinton is pushing for tighter regulations on social media

During an appearance on CNN Saturday, Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, encouraged lawmakers to focus on making the Internet a safer place for users.

“There are people who support this, but it’s been a long and difficult road to get anything done,” Clinton said, praising California and New York for passing social media laws but emphasizing the need for national action.

“We need action at the national level, and unfortunately our Congress has shown dysfunction when it comes to countering threats to our children,” the diplomat said.

Clinton argued that regulation of social media security should be “at the top” of any legislative agenda.

“There should be a lot of things to do. In my opinion, we should repeal the article called Art. 230, which provided online platforms with immunity because they were considered to be merely passing information and that they should not be judged for the content they posted,” Clinton later argued.

All of her comments were included in her new book, Something Lost and Something Gained, which found that social media content increases the incidence of anxiety and depression in children.

“Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, and threats of violence, which are extremely dangerous things,” Clinton explained.

She even went as far as to say that phones should be removed from schools.

“We did a big experiment on ourselves and especially on our children, and I think we have the evidence,” she said. “We need to do more, remove phones from schools. I’m really happy that schools are starting to do this, where kids turn on their phone when they walk in the door.”

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