The stars of The View fight over… Limits of freedom of expression In a tense battle on Wednesday's show.
The ABC daytime talk show discussed Mita's decision Tuesday regarding End the fact-checking program In what many considered a “victory” for freedom of expression.
However, some on the panel expressed concern about whether this would lead to more “hate speech” on social media, which Sunny Hostin claimed was a different issue.
“There is a difference between freedom of expression and hate speech,” Houston said. “We know that. Freedom of expression, I welcome it, and I think everyone welcomes it. It's your constitutional right. When you start getting into hate speech, which is happening all over social media, there's a problem with that, when you start getting into Hate speech.” “Misinformation and disinformation, there is a problem with that.”
“The View” co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin defended the right to offensive speech. (Screenshot/ABC News)
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Co-hosted by Alyssa Farrah Griffin“Of course there is pressure because Trump is going to take office, but I think there is a cultural and societal desire to be able to talk about things publicly,” interrupted her, who previously worked in Trump's first administration.
“It was the liberals who supported freedom of expression. The famous saying goes: 'I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,'” she added.
“I'm not going to defend to the death your right to call me…” co-host Whoopi Goldberg interrupted.
Griffin responded, complaining that she couldn't “finish a sentence” while Hostin had to talk “for 20 minutes,” prompting Goldberg to warn her to “be nice.”
“Well, I'm trying to make the point that hate speech, something that incites violence, is not legally protected at all under the First Amendment,” Griffin continued. “My ability to say a housewife is a domestic thing, that I can say that, could offend you. I don't agree with that, but you certainly, under the First Amendment, have the right to say that, and the fact that we're censoring speech because it makes people uncomfortable Or they don't like him or because he offends them…
“If someone decides, as they often do on these social media sites, to call me a—” Goldberg interrupted again, using profanity.
Griffin also got into a fight with Whoopi Goldberg over her inability to finish her thoughts. (abc/presentation/screenshot)
She later said: “There are certain things we all agree on, boy, you shouldn't say that. This isn't limiting your freedom of speech, it's asking (someone) to respect the fact that people don't want to hear that word.” “When it comes to them.”
Furthermore, co-host Joy Behar claimed that hate speech is mostly pushed by the “majority” to the “minority.”
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“Everyone was a pizza maker. When I was a kid, I felt like that was insulting to me. So, I understand that I sympathize with people who don't like their group being made fun of in a bad way.” He said. “The people who do this are not from minorities, they are from the majority.”
Griffin responded and insisted that “everyone at the table is getting hate speech directed at them.”
Alyssa Farrah Griffin and Joy Behar got into a tense argument over free speech and hate speech. (Photo by Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images | Photo by Lorenzo Bevilacqua/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
“I guess no one's going to be able to finish their sentences here anymore. Well,” Behar commented as Griffin rolled her eyes.
Griffin called out the committee because they “all act like we support free speech when it comes to the things we like,” which Goldberg insisted was “not true.”
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At the end of the session, Griffin criticized Huston for suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump's first election in 2016 influenced Rise in hate speech.
“There's never been a social media platform where you can't call people by name,” Griffin said. “It's not because Donald Trump was elected, now you can call people names on social media, that's not right.”
