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noviembre 15, 2023
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Tuesday proposed forcing social media customers to confirm their identities earlier than posting, citing “nationwide safety” issues.
The previous South Carolina governor’s plan is a part of a set of social media reforms aimed toward transparency — which she pushed throughout an look on Fox Information — that has rankled a few of her main opponents.
“Once I get into workplace, the very first thing we now have to do, social media accounts, social media corporations, they’ve to point out America their algorithms,” Haley mentioned. “Allow us to see why they’re pushing what they’re pushing.”
“The second factor is, each particular person on social media must be verified, by their title. That’s, to begin with, it’s a nationwide safety risk. Once you do this, hastily, individuals have to face by what they are saying. And it eliminates the Russian bots, the Iranian bots and the Chinese language bots. And then you definitely’re going to get some civility when individuals know their title is subsequent to what they are saying, they usually know their pastor and their members of the family are going to see it,” the 51-year-old former Trump administration official added.
Two of Haley’s GOP main opponents – entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – blasted her proposal.
“[Haley] is *overtly* pushing for the federal government to make use of non-public tech corporations to censor speech. It is a flagrant violation of the Structure and straight out of the Democrats’ playbook,” Ramaswamy mentioned in an X publish. “Any politician who thinks it’s OK for the federal government to make use of the non-public sector as its censorship bureau shouldn’t be allowed wherever close to the White Home.”
“Alexander Hamilton, John Jay & James Madison wrote the Federalist Papers beneath pseudonym. Right here’s what they’d say to [Haley] in the event that they had been alive: get your heels off my neck & return to England,” he mentioned in a separate publish.
In his criticism, DeSantis additionally invoked the authors of the Federalist Papers, who famously wrote beneath the collective pseudonym “Publius” to advertise the ratification of the Structure.
“You realize who had been nameless writers again within the day? Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison after they wrote the Federalist Papers,” DeSantis wrote on X. “They weren’t ‘nationwide safety threats,’ nor are the numerous conservative People throughout the nation who train their Constitutional proper to voice their opinions with out worry of being harassed or canceled by the college they go to or the corporate they work for.”
“Haley’s proposal to ban nameless speech on-line — much like what China just lately did — is harmful and unconstitutional. Will probably be useless on arrival in my administration,” he added.
The Haley marketing campaign instructed The Put up that the previous United Nations ambassador’s proposal is “widespread sense.”
“Everyone knows that America’s enemies use nameless bots to unfold anti-American lies and sow chaos and division inside our borders. Nikki believes social media corporations have to do a greater job of verifying customers so we are able to crack down on Chinese language, Iranian, and Russian bots. That’s widespread sense,” the Haley marketing campaign mentioned in an announcement.
