More Updates As Facebook Suspends Iowa Marijuana Activist Account — Purge Consuming Ron Paul Institute Director, Antiwar.com, Other Journalists — Are You Next?

Social media accounts have been known to censor and limit political discourse for years.

We talked about it in 2011 with Ron Paul at a meeting of the Young Americans for Liberty chapter Presidents during national convention.

Now, the public is finding out about selective political censorship as Alex Jones, Ron Paul, Justin Raimondo, and other current liberty activists are being targeted for supporting ideas over identity politics.

Here’s the meme that got Jason Karimi suspended from Facebook yesterday. Jason did appeal the ruling but has not reported any response >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

See also: Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana Facebook Page Banned (following Connie Norgart and other slave driver white women “activists” reporting for discussing race and drugs):

Now that the page has been taken down, Jerome thinks Facebook is in the wrong.

“It’s built to help people with diseases ir any type if ailments,” said Marshall.

Jimmy Morrison is one of the founders of the page. He says they were shocked to find out it had been removed.

“We’ve never actually encouraged anybody to break the law. It’s just that when people have Cancer or Epilepsy, and these illnesses, when it comes to their quality of life, a lot of them are willing to break the law,” said Morrison.

“We’re more just trying to provide information for people and educate law makers so that they’ll stop arresting these patients,” said Morrison.

Jimmy says the page is just like other pages that are still on Facebook. They were an advocate and a resource for those who needed the help.

READ: Medical Marijuana Facebook Page Banned | BIG STORY We Are Iowa ABC 5 Local News

More:

Democrats Circulate Plans to Take Control of Internet Including Regulations on Political Speech

Documentation, policy proposal: https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf Titled “Platform Policy Proposals For Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms”>https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf>https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf Titled “Platform Policy Proposals For Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms

A leaked memo circulating among Senate Democrats contains a host of bonkers authoritarian proposals for regulating digital platforms, purportedly as a way to get tough on Russian bots and fake news. To save American trust in “our institutions, democracy, free press, and markets,” it suggests, we need unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets, including “comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation” of the sort enacted in the E.U.

Titled “Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms,” the draft policy paper—penned by Sen. Mark Warner and leaked by an unknown source to Axios—the paper starts out by noting that Russians have long spread disinformation, including when “the Soviets tried to spread ‘fake news’ denigrating Martin Luther King” (here he fails to mention that the Americans in charge at the time did the same). But NOW IT’S DIFFERENT, because technology.

“Today’s tools seem almost built for Russian disinformation techniques,” Warner opines. And the ones to come, he assures us, will be even worse.

Here’s how Warner is suggesting we deal:

Mandatory location verification. The paper suggests forcing social media platforms to authenticate and disclose the geographic origin of all user accounts or posts.

Mandatory identity verification: The paper suggests forcing social media and tech platforms to authenticate user identities and only allow “authentic” accounts (“inauthentic accounts not only pose threats to our democratic process…but undermine the integrity of digital markets”), with “failure to appropriately address inauthentic account activity” punishable as “a violation of both SEC disclosure rules and/or Section 5 of the [Federal Trade Commission] Act.”

Bot labeling: Warner’s paper suggests forcing companies to somehow label bots or be penalized (no word from Warner on how this is remotely feasible)

Define popular tech as “essential facilities.” These would be subject to all sorts of heightened rules and controls, says the paper, offering Google Maps as an example of the kinds of apps or platforms that might count. “The law would not mandate that a dominant provider offer the serve for free,” writes Warner. “Rather, it would be required to offer it on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms” provided by the government.

Other proposals include more disclosure requirements for online political speech, more spending to counter supposed cybersecurity threats, more funding for the Federal Trade Commission, a requirement that companies’ algorithms can be audited by the feds (and this data shared with universities and others), and a requirement of “interoperability between dominant platforms.”

Quote from https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/democrats-tech-policy-plans-leaked

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