Who knew that advocating liberty, peace, and freedom for 50 years is cause for censorship?
That’s what the brilliant minds at Facebook did when they blocked Dr. Ron Paul.
Paul revealed on Twitter that he was blocked from managing his page for “repeatedly going against our community standards.”
Of course, we know why he was blocked: Paul linked to a Ron Paul Institute article, titled “The ‘War On Terror’ Comes Home,” which discusses censorship on social media.
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley made an excellent point about how the U.S. now has “state media without state control.”
“The move against Paul, a long champion of free speech, shows how raw and comprehensive this crackdown has become. It shows how the threat to free speech has changed. It is like having a state media without state control. These companies are moving in unison but not necessarily with direct collusion. The riot was immediately taken as a green light to move against a huge variety of sites and individuals. As we have seen in Europe, such censorship becomes an insatiable appetite for greater and greater speech control. Even Germany’s Angela Merkel (who has a long history of anti-free speech actions) has criticized Twitter’s actions as inimical to free speech. Yet, most law professors and media figures in the United States remain silent.”
When you are censoring a gentleman like Ron Paul, you have lost the plot.
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