In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the 2024 election, countless pundits in the mainstream media have called for censorship. After Vice President Kamala Harris’s massive defeat, a shocking video compilation of commentators promoting enhanced regulations on social media was shared to X.
The clip began with commentator Van Jones stating, “I think in a normal country, we would say, hold on a second, maybe we need to have a different set of regulations for social media platforms.” The footage then cut to a clip of co-host on “The View,” Sarah Haines, similarly claiming, “It would help if we could regulate social media, because one of the biggest defenders is D.C. and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations and social media.”
Furthermore, the post showed an MSNBC commentator asserting,”…and then moves them through YouTube videos, through podcasts, moves them from that annoyance, all the way slowly, slowly, to a full-blown fascist politics. We don’t have the equivalent of Joe Rogan, and Jordan Peterson to move that man in a feminist direction.” However, the clip hilariously concluded with a clip of Elon Musk calling out his detractors, saying, “Go f*ck yourself. Is that clear. I hope it is.”
Users on social media reacted to the clip, blasting the calls for censorship, calling for the mainstream media to be held accountable for trying to enact censorship. “I think CNN, NBC, ABC and The View hosts need to be put in check! It’s OK for them to go on air & berate the public who choose to have opposing opinions & views? It’s not okay! They should not be able to continually chastise the American public! We’ve been hearing this sort of parroting, gerrymandering, and frankly negative rhetoric for too many years now,” the popular conservative account CBear said.
Continuing in the lengthy criticism, the user added, “Not sure who put them in charge of the American public, but they need to back off! Do your jobs and cover the news honorable for goodness sakes! I think if they truly cared about our great country and the American people, they would back off! They don’t! This tells me a lot about each and every one of them. They can disagree with my views all day and all night long, but I think they need to realize that WTP are out in the open of everyday living & it is they who are hiding behind their huge conglomerate media companies & it is they who are securely hiding behind the camera lenses.”
The American Tribune reported on other comments made on “The View” where Joy Behar also called for action against conservative media. “Can we not let Fox News off the hook, please? All the fake news that’s been going out there. You know, one of the things that we need to do, and it’s not to abolish the Department of Education, as a former teacher, believe me, this is, [Trump’s] talking about doing that,” she said.
Watch the compilation of calls for censorship below:
Note: The featured image is a screenshot from the embedded video.
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