{"id":47453,"date":"2021-01-13T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47453"},"modified":"2021-01-13T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:05:14","slug":"facebook-blocks-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47453","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Blocks Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Paul Posts Criticism Of Censorship On Social Media Shortly Before Facebook Blocks Him<\/h1>\n

Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

We have been discussing the chilling crackdown on free speech that has been building for years in the United States. This effort has accelerated in the aftermath of the Capitol riot including\u00a0the shutdown sites like Parler<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Now former Texas congressman Ron Paul, 85, has been\u00a0blocked from using his Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0for unspecified violations of \u201ccommunity standards.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Paul\u2019s last posting was linked to\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0on the \u201cshocking\u201d increase of censorship on social media. Facebook then proceeded to block him under the same undefined \u201ccommunity standards\u201d policy.<\/p>\n

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Paul, a libertarian leader and former presidential candidate, has been an outspoken critics of foreign wars and an advocate for civil liberties for decades.\u00a0 He wrote:<\/p>\n

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