{"id":150903,"date":"2022-12-19T18:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=150903"},"modified":"2022-12-19T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T22:17:01","slug":"fbi-must-be-abolished-former-us-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=150903","title":{"rendered":"FBI must be abolished \u2013 former US presidential candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>READ HERE: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/568546-ron-paul-disband-fbi-twitter\/\">The FBI used proprietary backchannels at Twitter to infringe on Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights and should be \u201c<em>abolished<\/em>,\u201d former US Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stated on Monday.\u00a0 While Twitter has previously skirted accusations of violating Americans\u2019 right to free speech by arguing it is a private corporation, Paul pointed out that recently released internal communications between employees of the social media giant and government officials in the FBI and other agencies confirm the platform was acting as a surrogate of the state.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}