The former first lady and later Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has continued to maintain a public persona since leaving office in 2013.

While she has continued her diatribe against her former political rival and 45th president of the United States Donald Trump, she has also continued her attempt to tip the political scales in Democrats' favor

Most recently, she took part in an interview that included her thoughts on freedom of speech on social media, as The New York Post reported.

The Interview

During the recent talk, Clinton was questioned about a few social issues, which prompted her to diagnose the problem as one relating to a specific section of law that allows for more freedom of speech online.

During a Saturday interview with CNN, Secretary Clinton expressed her support for the abolition of Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 in response to a query about the deteriorating social fabric in the United States and Robert Putnam's book "Bowling Alone."

This provision has been interpreted as granting social media sites immunity from liability for user-generated content.

Hillary's Push

"We should be repealing something called Section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs -- that they shouldn't be judged for the content that is posted," Clinton said, followed by this quote that has been widely shared on social media as an attack on free speech:

"These platforms... if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control."

"The real threat to Democracy™️ is the Democrats' unquenchable desire for censorship," Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt commented on the clip.

Perceived Harm

The former first lady went on to talk about what she believes is the impact of these freedoms: "It's not just the social and psychological effects, it's real harm. It's, you know, child porn, and threats of violence, things that are terribly dangerous, Clinton said.

According to Clinton, "We need to remove the immunity from liability and we need to have guardrails. We need regulation."

The failed 2016 presidential candidate went on to assert that as Americans, we have "conducted this big experiment on ourselves" via widespread use of internet communication, something that has been an issue of concern for more than a decade.

"So, hopefully, the election will turn out the right way. The fever will be broken. And we can go back to trying to put our families and our communities on the right track," she said.