MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay claimed Wednesday that technological advancements on the internet have rendered the idea of free speech “out of date” because non-journalists are using it to advance “hate speech” and “dangerous” content.
As the Supreme Court deliberates whether companies like Google can be held liable for content posted on their sites, Scarborough declared, “The idea that this is 1996 and we’re talking about You’ve Got Mail or CompuServe is completely asinine.”
Offering up a combination of a statement and a question, he continued, “Isn’t it time for Congress to start holding Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and other owners of these, these corporations, just to the same standard that everybody else is held to? Why do we carve things out for — and I would ‘ve said Jack Dorsey before and I did say that a couple years ago? This is — it’s just insanity that we’re allowing these billion dollar corporations to have an exemption that nobody else has.”
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