Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Tucker Carlson and other Fox journalists of "incitement to violence" and suggested they should not be allowed on the air. The legislator demanded a regulation that establishes limits between freedom of expression and incitement to violence, giving as an example the videos on January 6 broadcast on the conservative channel.
.@AOC: "When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of these other folks on Fox do, it is very, very clearly incitement of violence." pic.twitter.com/qjnnDQrtqj
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) April 23, 2023
AOC: "Very real problems with what is allowed on air".
In an interview on MSNBC with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, AOC favored limiting free speech legally by making excuses for what happened on January 6 and Fox's coverage:
We have very real problems with what is allowed on the air. We saw it on January 6 and we saw it in the lead-up to January 6. How to address the issues, not only of freedom of speech, but also of liability for incitement to violence, is the line that we have to really explore through the law.
Incitement is speech that explicitly calls for "imminent lawless action." Tucker has never done that. But Democrats have stretched the definition of incitement to mean "speech we don't like." Tucker should sue her for defamation. https://t.co/ZhjjrDqXyv
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) April 23, 2023
"Incitement platforms".
Psaki agreed and asked the congresswoman if she believes the media and social networks "should be held accountable for being platforms for incitement," to which AOC responded:
I think when it comes to television, like Fox News, they are subject to federal law, federal regulation in terms of what is allowed on the air and what is not. When you look at what Tucker Carlson and some of the others do on Fox, it is very, very clearly incitement to violence, very clearly incitement to violence. That is the line I think we have to be willing to follow.
AOC accuses GOP of promoting "concerted rollback of civil liberties."
In addition, the Democratic representative accused the GOP of being behind "a concerted rollback of civil liberties across the board.. Our right to privacyOur right to bodily autonomy, our whole right to marry whomever we want, all of that is in jeopardy. I don't think they will stop. And he insisted: "I think we are in an extremely serious moment. I think the Republican Party is not going to start in Roe. They will not stop at Roe. They will not stop at women's rights."
There are so many people that when we warned that Roe was really in danger they called progressives hysterical. They said we were overestimating the risk, that this was never going to happen. And just as we warned about Roe, we are warning about the very real risks. We are already seeing attacks on trans Americans. We are seeing attacks on LGBTQ Americans. We have even seen Republican members of the Senate hint that interracial marriage is something that should be debated. These are our civil rights and our civil liberties, and we have to resist. We must resist these attempts to roll back the basic human rights of certain U.S. communities based on identity.
“I believe that what we are seeing is a concerted rollback of civil liberties... Our right to privacy. Our right to bodily autonomy. Our right to marry whomever we wish to marry. All of this is at risk.” @AOC on the Republican attack on abortion rights pic.twitter.com/zcKarqiXnA
— Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) April 23, 2023
