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For context, his weekly column published today: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/january/11/the-war-on-terror-comes-home/ http://ronp

For context, his weekly column published today: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/january/11/the-war-on-terror-comes-home/ http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/...

im3w1l 6y ago
Was it published before or after the ban?
- drak0n1c 6y ago
  Before, it’s the “Texas Talk” mentioned in his second Tweet.
JasonFruit 6y ago
That's highly appropriate.
ulucs 6y ago
>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. Getting banned right after saying this just shows that he's right. Combined with how DNC blocked Sanders and Gabbard, the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world.
- xster 6y ago
  #LetYangSpeak
- naebother 6y ago
  idk, I think this time round the "war on terror" will be directed more inwards.
- midasz 6y ago
  > the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world As someone from the ROTW I can tell you we're thrilled that Trump is leaving. It's been 4 years of uncertainty, foul rhetoric, blatant lying and cronyism. Trump sought the line and the line was drawn. Would it be better if it hadn't come to it? Yeah I think so. But we're waaaaay past that.
- bzb6 6y ago
  Exactly. As someone from Europe I shiver at the thought of trump leaving the presidency. Biden will restart the wars and flood Europe with economic migra... I mean refugees once again.
  - skinkestek 6y ago
    I also very much loved that he got NATO countries including mkne to start paying again. After what we saw in Georgia and Crimea somebody had to raise their voice and get us all to listen.
TwoBit 6y ago
> 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 That's all I need to read in order to dismiss anything further that he says.
Anon1096 6y ago
I look forward to the EFF and the ACLU getting their pages shut down then. Even they've come out and stated that we should be chilled with Parler's shutout. Oh wait, we all know that won't happen.
turing_complete 6y ago
I am not a big fan of Ron Paul, nor do I agree with much of the column, but getting banned for this is ridiculous.
jl2718 6y ago
> Because no army – not even Big Tech partnered with Big Government - can stop an idea This is more hopeful than conclusively factual. It seems pretty clear that platform owners believe very strongly that they can and should or must. It’s the must part that concerns me. Jack’s free-speaking interviews don’t imply any personal desire for censorship. He’s even spoken to the need for a decentralized Twitter. Maybe the most important part of this quote is that Ron Paul explicitly implies a partnership where none so far is understood, and at this point such an implication is certainly on the fringe of conspiracy theories. And if you think about all of the POTUS death threats that have built massive audiences on the platform, it’s an extremely confusing and/or deeply troubling accusation. Who is this ‘Big Government’, and why would they seem to hate the one person that most Americans most closely associate with that term? I guess the big question is whether censorship exists to protect powerless people from lies, or powerful people from the truth.

im3w1l 6y ago

Was it published before or after the ban?

drak0n1c 6y ago
Before, it’s the “Texas Talk” mentioned in his second Tweet.

JasonFruit 6y ago

That's highly appropriate.

ulucs 6y ago

>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. Getting banned right after saying this just shows that he's right. Combined with how DNC blocked Sanders and Gabbard, the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world.

xster 6y ago
#LetYangSpeak
naebother 6y ago
idk, I think this time round the "war on terror" will be directed more inwards.
midasz 6y ago
> the next four years is going to be very bad for the rest of the world As someone from the ROTW I can tell you we're thrilled that Trump is leaving. It's been 4 years of uncertainty, foul rhetoric, blatant lying and cronyism. Trump sought the line and the line was drawn. Would it be better if it hadn't come to it? Yeah I think so. But we're waaaaay past that.
bzb6 6y ago
Exactly. As someone from Europe I shiver at the thought of trump leaving the presidency. Biden will restart the wars and flood Europe with economic migra... I mean refugees once again.
- skinkestek 6y ago
  I also very much loved that he got NATO countries including mkne to start paying again. After what we saw in Georgia and Crimea somebody had to raise their voice and get us all to listen.

TwoBit 6y ago

> 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 That's all I need to read in order to dismiss anything further that he says.

Anon1096 6y ago

I look forward to the EFF and the ACLU getting their pages shut down then. Even they've come out and stated that we should be chilled with Parler's shutout. Oh wait, we all know that won't happen.

turing_complete 6y ago

I am not a big fan of Ron Paul, nor do I agree with much of the column, but getting banned for this is ridiculous.

jl2718 6y ago

> Because no army – not even Big Tech partnered with Big Government - can stop an idea This is more hopeful than conclusively factual. It seems pretty clear that platform owners believe very strongly that they can and should or must. It’s the must part that concerns me. Jack’s free-speaking interviews don’t imply any personal desire for censorship. He’s even spoken to the need for a decentralized Twitter. Maybe the most important part of this quote is that Ron Paul explicitly implies a partnership where none so far is understood, and at this point such an implication is certainly on the fringe of conspiracy theories. And if you think about all of the POTUS death threats that have built massive audiences on the platform, it’s an extremely confusing and/or deeply troubling accusation. Who is this ‘Big Government’, and why would they seem to hate the one person that most Americans most closely associate with that term? I guess the big question is whether censorship exists to protect powerless people from lies, or powerful people from the truth.