THIS COULD BE IMPORTANT – AT 11:30 P.M. ET:  The fanatical onslaught against President Trump by tech companies has attracted the attention of a major foreign leader.  From the New York Post: 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers it “problematic” that Twitter would toss President Trump off its social media platform, saying through a spokesmen Monday that the president’s ability to express his opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”

“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators — not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin.

“Seen from this angle, the chancellor considers it problematic that the accounts of the U.S. president have now been permanently blocked,” he added.

Twitter permanently banned Trump’s Twitter account last Friday citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” — two days after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol.

But for weeks the social media platform had tagged the president’s tweets about the Nov. 3 presidential election.

COMMENT:  When influential foreign leaders start noticing the erosion of our democratic principles, that's news.  How long will it take for these leaders to start throwing Twitter out of their own countries on grounds that it's a threat to their democracies as well?  Merkel's statement should be seized upon by the pro-free-speech forces here and hurled against the censors.  Maybe they'll wake up and realize what can happen to them all over the world.

January 11, 2021