The American people deserve to know who is trying to shut them up … and why.
Alex Berenson, a former reporter for the New York Times, was banned from Twitter for life last year for saying this about the Covid shot: "It doesn't stop infection. Or transmission. Think of it as something else. Think of it, at best, as a medicine that only works for a short time and has terrible side effects and must be taken BEFORE you get sick. And we want it to be a law? Insanity.”
Since the start of the Covid hysteria, the Ron Paul Liberty Report has followed Berenson and quoted him many times. Berenson listened to what the government and mainstream media said about the pandemic like a journalist would: with a lot of doubt. Soon after he was kicked out for saying that, the head of the CDC admitted that what he wrote is true.
But he was a threat to the government's story about Covid at the time, so the "private" social media company Twitter shut him up. They didn't just get rid of one reporter who was a pain, though. They stopped anyone else who might have questioned the story before they could. All the people who wanted to be Alex Berensons got the message loud and clear: do you want to follow him to the digital gulag?
So not only was Berenson's right to free speech under attack, but so was free speech itself.
Many people, especially libertarians, might say that since Twitter is a private company, it can do business with whoever it wants. That's true, but only to the extent that Twitter acts like a private company. The real question is how much Twitter and other social media companies have done the government's work for them.
After fighting Twitter in court for almost a year over the ban, the two sides reached a settlement earlier this month, and Berenson was let back on Twitter. When he wrote about getting his account back, he left a very ominous hint: "The settlement does not end my investigation into the pressures the government may have put on Twitter to suspend my account." I will have more to say about that topic soon."
Up until a few days ago, Elon Musk was in talks to buy Twitter. He replied to Berenson on Twitter, "Can you say more about this: '...pressures that the government may have put on Twitter...'"
Berenson replied, "I wish I could, but I can't because of the deal I made with Twitter. However, I hope and expect to have more news to share soon."
Questions about the vaccine were put to rest, and questions about where the virus came from were also put to rest. Was it possible that the outbreak started in a Chinese lab that the US government just so happened to be paying for? And if so, how far would powerful people in the government go to stop this possibility from being talked about or looked into?
At a very important time, when dictators were shutting down the country and threatening anyone who didn't want to get a shot, "private" companies with close ties to the US government shut down all public discussion about the situation.
This brings up important questions about the First Amendment that Congress might look into after the elections in November. The people of the United States have a right to know who is trying to silence them and why.
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