Dear Patriot,

The unholy alliance between Big Tech and Big
Government certainly has taken an interesting turn in the last
two weeks.

Now Big Tech is attempting to silence a
sitting President, while squashing competition for people who
wish to move to alternative platforms.

And if you missed it, I was temporarily
suspended from posting to my Facebook page that we've used since
2007, with no warnings. This comes on the heels of YouTube (owned
by Google) pulling down one of my videos because of "medical
misinformation."

The situation with Big Tech censorship has
deteriorated so much, that countries like Poland and Mexico, both
with histories of suppressing free speech, are pushing back on
the Big Tech abuses after seeing what they've done in the United
States. And European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, called the censorship "problematic."

These large platforms continue to abuse their
role as arbiters of public debate, all while helping Big
Government spy on our every move.

Read my latest column below about how this is
all a symptom of the dubious "War on Terror," which has been
turned into a war on free thought and free speech here at home.


If you care about independent media voices,
now is the time to fight against blatant censorship.

In liberty,

Ron



The War on Terror comes home
Last week's massive social media purges -
starting with President Trump's permanent ban from Twitter and
other outlets - was shocking and chilling, particularly to those
of us who value free expression and the free exchange of ideas.
The justifications given for the silencing of wide swaths of
public opinion made no sense and the process was anything but
transparent. Nowhere in President Trump's two "offending" Tweets,
for example, was a call for violence expressed explicitly or
implicitly. It was a classic example of sentence first, verdict
later.

Many Americans viewed this assault on social
media accounts as a liberal or Democrat attack on conservatives
and Republicans, but they are missing the point. The narrowing of
allowable opinion in the virtual public square is no conspiracy
against conservatives. As progressives like Glenn Greenwald have
pointed out, this is a wider assault on any opinion that veers
from the acceptable parameters of the mainstream elite, which is
made up of both Democrats and Republicans.

Yes, this is partly an attempt to erase the
Trump movement from the pages of history, but it is also an
attempt to silence any criticism of the emerging political
consensus in the coming Biden era that may come from progressive
or antiwar circles.

After all, a look at Biden's incoming
"experts" shows that they will be the same failed neoconservative
interventionists who gave us weekly kill lists, endless drone
attacks and coups overseas, and even US government killing of
American citizens abroad. Progressives who complain about this
"back to the future" foreign policy are also sure to find their
voices silenced.

Those who continue to argue that the social
media companies are purely private ventures acting independent of
US government interests are ignoring reality. The corporatist
merger of "private" US social media companies with US government
foreign policy goals has a long history and is deeply steeped in
the hyper-interventionism of the Obama/Biden era.

"Big Tech" long ago partnered with the
Obama/Biden/Clinton State Department to lend their tools to US
"soft power" goals overseas. Whether it was ongoing regime change
attempts against Iran, the 2009 coup in Honduras, the disastrous
US-led coup in Ukraine, "Arab Spring," the destruction of Syria
and Libya, and so many more, the big US tech firms were happy to
partner up with the State Department and US intelligence to
provide the tools to empower those the US wanted to seize power
and to silence those out of favor.

In short, US government elites have been
partnering with "Big Tech" overseas for years to decide who has
the right to speak and who must be silenced. What has changed now
is that this deployment of "soft power" in the service of
Washington's hard power has come home to roost.

So what is to be done? Even pro-free speech
alternative social media outlets are under attack from the Big
Tech/government Leviathan. There are no easy solutions. But we
must think back to the dissidents in the era of Soviet tyranny.
They had no Internet. They had no social media. They had no
ability to communicate with thousands and millions of
like-minded, freedom lovers. Yet they used incredible creativity
in the face of incredible adversity to continue pushing their
ideas. Because no army - not even Big Tech partnered with Big
Government - can stop an idea whose time has come. And Liberty is
that idea. We must move forward with creativity and confidence!




Ron Paul
Chairman




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