Facebook Blocking Ron Paul Shows Tech Censorship Is Not About Trump, It's About Suppressing Dissent

Authored by Matt Agorist via TheFreeThoughtProject.com,

Dr. Ron Paul who has been a champion of peace and liberty for
decades was unceremoniously blocked from his own page on Facebook
Monday. Facebook claimed Ron Paul, who has long promoted everyone
getting along, civil liberties, police accountability, and ending
US wars, was repeatedly going “against our community
standards.”

“With no explanation other than “repeatedly going
against our community standards,”�Facebook has blocked me from
managing my page. Never have we received notice of violating
community standards in the past and nowhere is the offending post
identified,†Ron Paul tweeted out
Monday afternoon.

The only thing we posted to
Facebook today was my weekly “Texas Straight Talk” column, which I
have published every week since 1976.

— Ron Paul (@RonPaul)
January 11, 2021

This happens to be the exact same notice the Free
Thought Project received at the end of last year. We never once got
a warning. We never once published anything false, and we always
promote peace and liberty. Coincidentally, despite not
supporting Trump and calling out his crimes and the deceptive
tactics of Qanon for four years, nearly every single person
involved with the Free Thought Project received a 30 day ban on
Friday as part of the mass purge of Trump supporters on Twitter and
Facebook.

Dr. Paul’s ban is exceedingly egregious given the fact that he
has never once advocated violence, nor did he support the march on
the capitol last week. Instead, Paul has been an outspoken
proponent for breaking through the two-party paradigm and
addressing issues that actually affect our lives like the police
state, big government, and the Federal Reserve’s control over the
U.S. monetary system.

Few people in modern history have spawned an awakening
of the masses like the former Congressman. Throughout his
tenure in Congress, Ron Paul was known as ‘Dr. No’ because he
voted on 100% principle. Unlike any of his peers, Ron Paul was
often the single ‘no’ vote on many issues. He never voted for
wars, or to advance the police state, or to bailout big banks and
corporations. He was a true hero to freedom.

One of Ron Paul’s most defining moments of his career was
waking people up to the corrupt history of the Federal Reserve and
the problems this privately owned central bank causes throughout
the world. He even wrote a book about it, while he was still in
Congress, titled, End the Fed.

Since his days in Congress have ended, Dr. Paul has dedicated
his life after D.C. to continue spreading the message of liberty.
For several years, he has run the Liberty Report which covers the
current practices of government corruption along with many other
issues.

Through banning Paul, Facebook is essentially telling
the world that it is pro-war, pro-police state, pro-Federal
Reserve, and pro-cronyism in general. As he is non-violent,
pro-peace, and pro-free speech, Ron Paul poses no threat of
inciting violence or armed insurrection. For simply being
anti-corrupt establishment, he was banned. This is huge
problem.

It is no secret that Facebook is a leviathan of corruption,
censorship, spying, and an outright divide-stoking platform that
has been a part of facilitating a massively bicameral society that
is ripping apart. Thanks to its algorithms that keep users in their
own partisan bubbles, billions of people across the planet who get
most of their information from Facebook, have fallen into a
bias-confirming slumber and react with anger, and sometimes
violence, when presented with factual information that challenges
their Facebook-constructed world view.

It is leading to mass ignorance, the shouting down and
eventual censorship of peaceful ideas, and hatred for our fellow
man. Social media, and the mainstream media have almost
single-handedly fanned the flames of the fire of divide in which we
currently find ourselves.

Even former
high-level executives inside Facebook have come forward to
attempt to alert the world to technocratic dystopia this social
media platform is creating. For years, the Free Thought Project has
been screaming
this information from the rooftops. Yet it was never bad enough
for most people to pay attention. Well, now it is.

As anyone with half a brain understands, censorship does not
stop ideas from spreading. Bad ideas need to be defeated in the
public arena of debate. When you ban them, you not only prevent
them from being defeated in the public arena, you give credence to
those who espouse them. These tech giants know this, which is why
the conspiracy theorist in me thinks they are attempting to provoke
a horrifying response.

As we reported
this week, three individual, unelected, unaccountable corporate
monopolies (Amazon, Google, Apple) colluded to silence political
content with which they disagreed. Joe MAGA, who may be on the
verge of snapping, whose been unemployed for a year, arguing about
ridiculous Qanon theories on Facebook, only to be banned and pushed
to Parler, and then banned once more, is thinking to himself right
now that the establishment is out to get him and he’s right.
Unfortunately, thanks to this attack on anti-establishment voices,
thousands of Joe MAGAs are likely googling the ingredients for pipe
bombs, right now.

Just like the war on terror creates more terrorists,
censorship is wind in the sails of extremism.

The reaction to the chaos at the capitol by big tech and the
establishment will undoubtedly make things far worse, thereby
allowing the feds to roll out even more draconian measures in the
name of national security. Most Americans will accept these
measures in the name of “keeping them safe,†and freedom will
die with nary a whimper.

By banning Ron Paul they are letting the world know that
it’s not just about Trump inciting riots or the raid on the
capitol. They are letting the world know that they are who gets to
decide what information can be shared online and they do not care
about the potential for extremism and despotism these actions
create.