Mayor Pete Buttigieg's campaign, in response to questions about what he would do to address white nationalism,where he told a crowd that he’s in favor of applying the same strategies used to combat “foreign radicalism” to address domestic white nationalism. “I never thought I’d be thinking about this in a domestic context,” Buttigieg told the crowd in Iowa.
“We’ve largely let these companies be completely unregulated. They’ve been unregulated with respect to our privacy, they’ve been unregulated with respect to the filters they create, they’ve largely been able to get away with any kind of acquisition they want and create avoidably integrated monopolies,” former Rep. John Delaney told BuzzFeed News. “So there’s a huge number of issues there that affect the society in lots of ways and that’s clearly one of the ways how hate is being spread online.
A spokesperson for Moulton’s campaign added that he would be in favor of regulating social media companies in unprotected speech categories and that the federal government would need to work alongside social media companies to develop tools for other areas. “Under pressure from civil rights groups, Facebook and Instagram recently decided to ban white nationalist content from their platforms,” Julián Castro told BuzzFeed News. “This is a start, but they're playing catch up and need to do better at extinguishing hate speech quickly.
No regulation would survive constitutional free speech challenges. That is a ludicrous idea. -a proud liberal and atheist