George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley warned on Thursday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seeking to get Americans to “embrace censorship” on behalf of the left.
Clinton called for Americans to be “criminally charged” for spreading what she viewed as propaganda during a Monday evening interview with MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Turley said Clinton was an “outstanding voice” in the anti-free speech movement, as seen through her actions like seeking to use the European Union to force American tech companies to censor certain views on X.
“I talk about her in my new book, ‘The Indispensable Right,’ and how she’s been one of the outstanding voices in the anti-free speech movement. Her views on free speech are quite chilling,” Turley told “America’s Newsroom” co-host Bill Hemmer. “What’s interesting is that for years, the left has been trying to get people to embrace censorship. But it’s hard to get a free people to give up freedom, and it’s not working. And so now they’re going old school with Clinton and with countries like Brazil.”
A Brazilian supreme court justice ordered internet providers in the country to block access to X after the company refused to censor accounts. Turley said that Clinton went to the European Union after Musk purchased the social media site in November 2022, urging it to use its power to force the site to censor.