Posted on 05/08/2021 2:18:04 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Pursuant to the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy — which sounds like it could have only come straight out of either Hogwarts or the Politburo — Facebook’s “independent” Oversight Board has exiled Donald J. Trump from the realm of modern communication. Put another way, about 20 unelected former political leaders, journalists and human rights activists have suffocated the speech of a former president of the United States of America.
But hey, what do politicians, not to mention journalists or human rights activists, know about the universal right of freedom of expression these days, anyway?
So there you have it, America — the Bill of Rights is kaput — subsumed to relativism, faceless technocrats and an international oligarchy. “The 1st Amendment is merely a local law,” tweets CPI Policy Director Rachel Bovard. “Facebook is a citizen of the world and has the self-appointed, moral burden to play whack-a-mole with the speech of global leaders. How else will democracies survive?”
The question we all need to ask now is this: If an American who formerly held the highest public office in the land isn’t entitled to enjoy the fruits and protections of the First Amendment, then what hope do we possibly have as everyday citizens?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Trump is the leader of a world wide populist movement. Communists have decreed that He must be marginalized, silenced or worse. Not complicated.
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