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.

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.

>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.

> 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.

Was it published before or after the ban?

That's highly appropriate.

> 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.