Behar Thinks American Rights Need To Be 'Tweaked', Guess Who She Targets
The gals on 'The View' think that Biden's rating would be better if people weren't allowed to say whatever they're thinking. The group debated free speech after salivating Australia's new 'Anti-Trolling' law.
Joy Baher took it a step further and declared that free speech is overrated and outdated. She demanded that it be 'tweaked'... just a little.
Whoopi asked, "Australia wants to go a step further, drafting a legal process for those feeling they have been defamed, bullied, or harassed, that would force social media companies hand over the identities of the accused bully to the courts. Now if we had a legal process like this, would it actually make people think twice about trolling or would people just find a new -- a new way to troll?"
The pack of nags all agreed that people are given far too much freedom in terms of speech. They also randomly targeted the second amendment.
"When the founding fathers were busy with the amendments, the First and Second Amendments did not have AR-15s in there, weapons of war, and they didn't have Twitter. So both amendments, I think they need to be tweaked a little bit," Behar explained.
Full Transcript
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Hey. So Jack Dorsey -- Jack Dorsey just stepped down as CEO of Twitter, and unlike Mark Zuckerberg, he was more proactive in removing defamatory content. He most famously deleted you-know-who’s account. [ Applause ] Now Australia --
JOY BEHAR: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: Australia wants to go a step further, drafting a legal process for those feeling they have been defamed, bullied, or harassed, that would force social media companies hand over the identities of the accused bully to the courts. Now if we had a legal process like this, would it actually make people think twice about trolling or would people just find a new -- a new way to troll?
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think it would.
SARA HAINES: It would be so nice.
HOSTIN: It would be so juicy and good. I mean, think about it. How many times as public people -- granted we're in the public. How many times don't you get those nasty tweets from people with that keyboard courage in their mama's basements or somewhere else, and they're always hidden behind, like, a cat photo or a private account or a frog photo or a flag photo in my case. I get a lot of flag photos and they say the nastiest things that they would never say to you face to face. I would love their identifying information. I would looove it.
[applause and agreement]
GOLDERG: It sounds good, but now before we've identified what harassment means to the court or to the person --
GOLDBERG: -- You have to be careful because as you have identified someone who you feel is harassing and messing with you, so can somebody else about you.
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JANE COASTON: Australia does not have the First Amendment.
GOLDBERG: No it doesn't.
COASTON: Because Twitter is a private platform, Twitter can moderate, edit users, and the content as much as they see fit. My concern is always, like, if I'm on Twitter as I am, and I
start, you know, going after somebody who is supportive of something that I find abhorrent, am I a troll? Can they get my identification? What about the use of language, and then it gets into a very murky area because I know, like, I remember in 2016 I got photoshopped in the gas chambers by the worst people in the entire world, and, like, I obviously at a point was, like, I would love to know where they lived and I could, you know, do a little research. At the same time, I'm just thinking about, like, what does this mean for --
SUNNY HOSTIN: People are killing themselves over social media!
JOY BEHAR: But a lot of it is threats also.
HOSTIN: Yeah, threats, bullying.
BEHAR: People are threatening other people with death. You want to know who they are.
HAINES: Without criminal accountability -- without criminal accountability, I want them to have to identify themselves. Because stand by it. I know freedom of speech as a government, but the value is honored in this country.
HOSTIN: Mm-hmm.
SARA HAINES: That doesn't mean -- that is typically honored for a protest, for an organization. It is not for an egghead on Twitter.
HOSTIN: Yep.
[cross-talk/ agreement]
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JOY BEHAR: ...When the founding fathers were busy with the amendments, the First and Second Amendments did not have AR-15s in there, weapons of war, and they didn't have Twitter. So both amendments, I think they need to be tweaked a little bit.
GOLDBERG: That's a whole new conversation. That's a whole new conversation.
[cross-talk]
BEHAR: We make our living on the First Amendment so we love it, but there's a lot of hate speech and misinformation, needs to be dealt with.
GOLDBERG: That's right, but not right this second because we got to tell you something else. We'll be right back.
