Meet Nick Clegg, a British nerd who decides what Americans can read on Facebook

Who is Sir Nick Clegg, the Facebook vice president of global affairs who is placing America’s culture of free speech in manacles by continuing to ban Donald Trump from the platform? The man who wrote the Facebook post barring Trump in January and will decide whether to make it permanent is a career British liberal politician, once famously described as David Cameron’s condom by Boris Johnson.

Savor this for a moment: The former head of a party calling itself the “Liberal Democrats,” from the supposedly liberty-loving homeland of the Magna Carta, is stopping Americans from hearing the thoughts of a person we chose as our president. What was the point of the American Revolution if some aristocratic British nerd can decide which Americans get to speak?

Clegg, 54, the former deputy prime minister of Great Britain until he was chased out of that country by haters on both sides, has fallen upwards into a much bigger job than he ever had in London, where as David Cameron’s No. 2 he had an exalted title but almost no power. Johnson, then the mayor, derided him as “Cameron’s kind of lapdog-come-prophylactic-protection device.”

After Cameron’s Conservative party won a big plurality, but not a majority, of seats in Parliament in 2010, the Tories had to form a coalition with somebody in order to rule. That somebody was Clegg’s Liberal Democrats, a party of college-educated gentry liberals (think Hugh Grant) who love the European Union much more than the working-class union members who are the traditional base of the Labour party.

Granted a few minor concessions, Clegg lucked into being Cameron’s deputy prime minister, though that meant throwing overboard one of his most cherished ideals — virtually free college education — in order to reduce the budget deficit.

So the left hates Clegg for being a sellout, and on the right, well … think of a younger-model Al Gore: a dull, earnest, sanctimonious upper-class policy robot who will always give you some technocratic gobbledygook explanation for why you’re not allowed to eat that sandwich on that particular park bench at this particular time.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/06/meet-nick-clegg-the-brit-who-decides-what-we-can-read-on-facebook/

Gunmen Shoot Dead Former News Anchor in Afghanistan’s Kandahar

KABUL—A former journalist who worked for Afganistan’s finance ministry was shot dead by gunmen in the southern city of Kandahar on Thursday, provincial officials said, as violence mounted across the country amid a U.S. troop withdrawal.

No group immediately claimed responsibility but government officials and Western powers usually blame Taliban insurgents for such attacks, which they deny.

Nimat Rawan, a former news anchor at ToloNews, Afghanistan’s largest private television station, was shot dead on Thursday morning, provincial police spokesman Jamal Naser said. Police were investigating, he said.

Many similar killings have taken place in recent months, often targeting journalists, civil society activists, government officials, and judges.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the terrorist group was behind the shooting of Rawan in Kandahar. In tweets on Wednesday, Mujahid had warned against “propaganda and one-sided broadcasts” by some media outlets.

“If this continues, the responsibility for the next steps will fall on the media officials and its staff themselves,” he said.

President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack and said the attackers could not silence the people’s freedom of speech.

Afghan security forces are locked in daily combat with the Taliban, which has waged war to overthrow the foreign-backed government since it was ousted from power in Kabul in 2001.

https://www.ntd.com/gunmen-shoot-dead-former-news-anchor-in-afghanistans-kandahar_608849.html

Twitter Suspends Account for Posting Comments From Trump’s New Blog

An account that attempted to post comments from a blog by former President Donald Trump on Twitter was suspended, the social-media giant said on Thursday.

Trump unveiled a new blog Tuesday, with links for users to share his latest statements directly on Twitter, where he is permanently banned.

"As stated in our ban evasion policy, we’ll take enforcement action on accounts whose apparent intent is to replace or promote content affiliated with a suspended account," Twitter said in a statement as quoted by Politico.

On Thursday, an account with the handle @DJTDesk appeared on Twitter saying, "Posts copied from Save America on behalf of the 45th POTUS; originally composed via DonaldJTrump/desk," according to images posted by NBC and other media outlets. It was suspended the following day.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller told NBC the account was not set up by, or with the permission of, anyone affiliated with the former president.

On Wednesday, Facebook’s independent advisory board upheld the Trump ban while faulting the platform for creating a new rule for the former president following the January 7 riot in the Capitol that critics say was instigated by president just days before leaving office. The board also gave Facebook a 6-month deadline to revise its rules to avoid future situations in which it responds to unusual situations by creating new penalties.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202105061082820268-twitter-suspends-account-for-posting-comments-from-trumps-new-blog/

Horowitz: Violent criminal released by New Hampshire judge accused of brutally raping woman in cemetery six days later

These are the victim stories that are never told by politicians. These are the criminals who need to be locked up but are increasingly let out on the streets because criminal justice reform is all about the criminal, not the victim.

Amuri Diole represents everything that is wrong with our justice system. He was arrested on April 29 for allegedly assaulting a woman in a Manchester, New Hampshire, cemetery for two hours, smashing her head on a grave marker, raping her, putting a knife to her neck, and threatening to kill her. Like almost every one of these heinous criminal acts, this one was allegedly committed by a man who was incorrigibly violent and should never have been on the streets but was indeed released just six days before.

According to the Manchester Union Leader, Diole was arrested in November 2018 for reportedly brutally beating a man in Merrimack who was nice enough to employ him, despite his troubled background. During the attack, Diole allegedly broke the nose, jaw, and eye sockets of his victim. Despite five years of cycling in and out of psychiatric hospitals and being diagnosed with homicidal tendencies, Diole was not kept off the streets even after this demonic assault. He was in and out of jail since 2018, racking up more criminal arrests. Over a year later, the victim of the assault still had not gotten justice, and in January, Superior Court Judge Charles Temple ruled that Diole was incompetent to stand trial.

Freeze frame at this point. One would think that the alternative to going to prison would be locking this man up in a psychiatric institute. After all, if someone is so violent that he can't control himself, he is even more dangerous on the streets than the non-mentally ill criminals. Yet our system now uses the criminal's mental status as an excuse to simply release him. This is happening throughout the country. In this case, Diole was released from jail on April 23. The judge cited state law that gives prosecutors 90 days to obtain an order for involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital, something that is becoming very hard given that most psychiatrists are leftists and are unwilling to commit criminals.

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-violent-criminal-released-by-new-hampshire-judge-accused-of-brutally-raping-woman-in-cemetery-six-days-later