This week, Republican Presidential candidate Nikki Haley proposed a plan to force social media companies to verify the identity of ALL users, thereby prohibiting people from being allowed to create anonymous accounts. She was immediately slammed by members of her own Party for this grossly unconstitutional plan, which they incorrectly identified as “censorship,” but technically their hearts were in the right place even if their brains were not. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.
Link – https://www.rawstory.com/blatantly-unconstitutional-nikki-haley-ripped-for-fascist-proposal-to-outlaw-anonymit/
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
Republican presidential candidate. Nikki Haley thought she had a slam dunk idea this week and she went on Fox News to talk about her awesome idea to get a little bit of transparency in social media. And her idea basically boiled down to, you can’t post online anonymously anymore, whether it’s on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, whatever it is. She wants social media outlets to have to verify a user’s identity and that user would have to use that identity in order to post, right? You can’t hide behind these fake usernames and fake pictures anymore and go out there and say whatever you want. Nope. If you’re gonna say something, you gotta be brave enough to put your actual name and face on it. Now, on the surface, that actually doesn’t seem like such a horrible idea. But if you understand anything about the United States Constitution, you also know that, holy crap, this is wildly illegal.
It doesn’t matter if you think, Hey, maybe it would be a decent idea ’cause it’s still illegal. So your opinion of this idea doesn’t matter. My opinion of it doesn’t matter. And Nikki Haley, upon releasing this grand idea, immediately got shredded. Not by the left, but by the right. She got so attacked by her own party, by the way, the same day that it was announced, she had overtaken Rhon DeSantis in the polling in New Hampshire. So she’s like sitting in second place and she’s like, get this. And then the entire Republican party came out and was like, wow, you’re, you’re, you’re actually pretty dumb. You’re pretty pretty stupid. Charlie Kirk let it off by saying, Nikki Haley says, every person on social media should be verified by name for the sake of national security. Nice try. Nikki Anonymous speech is a core part of free speech, which the founders would know since many of them, including Alexander Hamilton and James Madison wrote anonymously, to be honest, kind of surprised. Charlie Kirk even knew that Vikk Rums Swami, one of Haley’s opponents said, Haley is openly pushing for the government to use private tech companies to censor speech. This is a flagrant violation of the Constitution and straight out of the Democrats playbook off you like, I’m sorry, I can’t even finish his idiotic quote. Like, this is what the Democrats are doing. No, they’re not. Show me where that’s happened. Vivek, show me.
Send me and you can find me across social media. Vikk, go ahead and send me links to where Democrats have actually done this You wild piece of garbage. Not to mention the fact that you actually got something wrong. Dumb. This isn’t actually censorship. Yes, it’s unconstitutional, but it’s not censorship.
Censorship would of course, be taking away an individual’s complete right to speak freely, and that’s actually not what’s happening. People would still be allowed to say whatever the hell they want to say. So it is unconstitutional, yes, but is it censorship? No. So let’s stop throwing that word around. Ron DeSantis said it was quote, dangerous and unconstitutional. DeSantis is, uh, I guess spokesperson. Christina Haw said, I am no lawyer, but isn’t this blatantly unconstitutional? Free speech includes anonymous speech. Mark Levin ripped Haley as well, tweeting quote, and every user should be verified. Hailey is showing more and more of her true beliefs. As I mentioned, Hailey has now walked this back. She’s like, Hey, you know, no people can still post anonymously.