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NASHUA, N.H. – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says social media giant YouTube was wrong to take down videos of COVID-19 vaccine discussions and an interview in which the Democrat presidential candidate said that chemicals in the water are turning kids transgender.
“I think it’s wrong. I think we’re living in [a] new era where these big social media sites have now replaced the public square,” Kennedy said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I think they really ought to have a sense of obligation to be the forums for open debate on issues – even if the issues are complex or difficult.”
The environmental lawyer and high-profile vaccine critic, who’s a scion of arguably the nation’s most famous family political dynasty, said “the First Amendment was not passed to protect safe speech. It was passed to protect difficult speech, speech that people don’t want to hear. And I think the social media sites need to really have to look carefully at their responsibility.”
Kennedy and podcast host Jordan Peterson tweeted Sunday that the video-sharing website had taken down their interview from an episode of Peterson’s show and accused the social media platform of censorship and interfering with a presidential campaign.
WHY YOUTUBE SAYS IT REMOVED A ROBERT F KENNEDY JR INTERVIEW
Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stands alongside a bust of his late uncle, President John F. Kennedy, outside City Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire, on June 20, 2023. (Fox News/Paul Steinhauser)
Kennedy, who’s mounting a primary challenge against President Joe Biden, told Fox News during a campaign stop interview in Nashua, New Hampshire, that “I have dissenting views on some of these issues, but we ought to be able to debate that. We ought to be able to debate it in a way that’s congenial and respectful and is fact-based and not employ censorship.”
In the interview with Peterson, Kennedy said that “a lot of the sexual dysphoria” America is seeing comes from exposure to…
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