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Hillary Clinton's Sordid History of Secrecy and Censorship

• https://libertarianinstitute.org, by Jim Bovard

But Hillary's entry into the brawls surrounding the 2024 presidential election will leave many Americans wishing to drop her elsewhere.

As the race enters the home stretch, Hillary Clinton is riding in like Joan of Arc to rescue truth—or at least to call for hammering government critics. But Hillary has been a triple threat to American democracy for fifteen years.

Last Monday evening, Hillary declared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC talk show that the federal government should criminally prosecute Americans who share "propaganda"—which she made no effort to define.

Hillary has long been one of America's foremost censorship advocates. In 2021, she announced that there must be "a global reckoning with the disinformation, with the monopolistic power and control, with the lack of accountability that the [social media] platforms currently enjoy." Hillary made her utterance at a time when freedom in much of the world had been obliterated by governments responding to a pandemic that occurred as a result of U.S. government funding reckless experiments in Chinese government labs. The U.S. denial of its role in the lab leak was perhaps the biggest deceit of the decade but Hillary never kvetched about that scam regarding a program that contributed to millions of deaths. But that wasn't disinformation—that was public service.

In 2022, Hillary wailed that "tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability" and endorsed European Union legislation to obliterate free speech. But "disinformation" is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.

That awkward fact didn't deter Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz from declaring last month, "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy." Who knew the Minnesota version of the First Amendment has a loophole bigger than Duluth?