John Kerry: First Amendment is a major block to hammering out “sick” information sources

| September 30, 2024 | 63 Comments

John Kerry complained that it is challenging to get a consensus in the United States today. One example that Kerry used to back this statement is the fact that we can choose our information sources. If only one source is chosen, and it is “sick”, the First Amendment stands in the way to hammering this source out. Kerry isn’t the only Democrat complaining about the inability to police information that Democrats want “out of the way.”

Approximate translation:

John Kerry: And I think the, the, dislike of and anguish over social media is just growing and growing, and growing, uh, and it is a part of our problem, particularly in democracies, uh, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It’s really hard to govern today. You can’t, you know, you know, there’s no, the referee as we used to have to determine what’s a fact and what isn’t a fact, that kind of, you know, been eviscerated to a certain degree. And um, people go, and then people self-select where they go for their news, or for their information, and then you just get into a vicious cycle.

So it’s really, really hard, much harder to build consensus today than at any time in the 45, 50 years I have been involved in this, and, and, I, you know there is a lot of discussion now about how you curb, uh, those entities, uh, in order to guarantee that you’re going to have, you know, some accountability of facts, etc.

But look, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, uh, you know, has an agenda, uh, and they’re putting out disinformation, uh, our, First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.

So, what you need, what we need is to, is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully having, uh, you know, winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to, to uh, implement change, uh, now obviously there are some people in our country who are prepared to implement change in other ways. And…

Panelist: so you’re questioning really, if, uh, democracy, can survive on related social media (inaudible).

John Kerry: (inaudible) I think democracies are deeply (?), are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing. And to me that is part of what this race, uh, this election is all about. Will we break the fever in the United States?

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