Former Asst. Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts [Requests closure of Twitter Account]

[Swordsmyth]

Twitter has suspended noted anti-war commentator, economist and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Paul Craig Roberts.
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The suspension came without warning and was noted by journalist Caitlin Johnstone and others Thursday evening:

Twitter appears to have suspended Paul Craig Roberts October 26, 2018 (https://twitter.com/PaulCraigRobert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" PaulCraigRobert[/URL], a vocal antiwar conservative. Can't find any info about it yet.
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) [URL="https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1055630049561337856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Paul Craig Roberts has apparently had his Twitter account suspended.
The censorship grows and worsens.
(I recognize that I'm now probably next since I'm tweeting this.) pic.twitter.com/yPaqpsSSzm (https://t.co/yPaqpsSSzm)
— TF Metals Report (@TFMetals) October 26, 2018 (https://twitter.com/TFMetals/status/1055632528546164736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Definitely suspended. Google links to PaulCraigRoberts come up with this suspended notice. pic.twitter.com/AwAgnhK0qf (https://t.co/AwAgnhK0qf)
— Chris Lonsdale (@kungfu_mandarin) October 26, 2018 (https://twitter.com/kungfu_mandarin/status/1055644527405359104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) Roberts, 79, served in the Reagan administration from 1981 to 1982. He was formerly a distinguished fellow at the Cato Institute and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, and has written for the Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. Roberts maintains an active blog (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/).
He's also vehemently against interventionary wars around the world, and spoke with Russia's state-owned Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201810231069140183-neocons-trump-inf/) news in a Tuesday article - in which Roberts said that President Trump's decision to pull out of the Intermedia-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty was a handout to the military-security complex.

The former Reagan administration official clarified that he does not think "that the military-security complex itself wants a war with Russia, but it does want an enemy that can be used to justify more spending." He explained that the withdrawing from the INF Treaty "gives the military-security complex a justification for a larger budget and new money to spend: manufacturing the formerly banned missiles."
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The economist highlighted that "enormous sums spent on 'defense' enabled the armaments corporations to control election outcomes with campaign contributions," adding that in addition, "the military has bases and the armaments corporations have factories in almost every state so that the population, dependent on the jobs, support high amounts of 'defense' spending."
"That was 57 years ago," he underscored. "You can imagine how much stronger the military-security complex is today." -Sputnik (https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201810231069140183-neocons-trump-inf/)
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Roberts also suggested that "The Zionist Neoconservatives are responsible for Washington's unilateral abandonment of the INF treaty, just as they were responsible for Washington's unilateral abandonment of the ABM Treaty [in 2002], the Iran nuclear agreement, and the promise not to move NATO one inch to the East."
Is this what got Roberts suspended?

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-25/twitter-bans-former-asst-treasury-secretary-paul-craig-roberts-after-sputnik

[jmdrake]

First they came for Alex Jones....

[Aratus]

Agreed. Even though he could be a most total idiot at times, they took him seriously...
Next they went after the guy who debriefed Ronnie Reagan... Despite his gov't service.

[Marenco]

Wow, they are really escalating this...

[osan]

Private entity, their right to ban as they please.

Our right to walk away.

We don't.

Therefore, it isn't an issue of sufficiency.

Once again, we bring the poo down upon our own heads because we have no fortitude, but we sure do like to talk as if we did.

The tech that is twitter.com is simple, so why not clone it. I propose it be called "twatter.com" The Brits should love it, at least.

[CaptUSA]

Private entity, their right to ban as they please.

Our right to walk away.

We don't.

Therefore, it isn't an issue of sufficiency.

Once again, we bring the poo down upon our own heads because we have no fortitude, but we sure do like to talk as if we did.

Agreed. I wish we'd stop using the term "ban" for this type of stuff. I mean I get the correlation, but the term is used to inflame. A company decided they didn't like what someone was putting on their platform so they decided to stop doing business with that person. This is freedom of association issue, which we shouldn't want changed.

That being said, it's good to direct the public's attention to their business model to encourage more friendly competitors to enter the market.

[shakey1]

'twas inevitable.

[Brian4Liberty]

[Edit: Looks like it was an unofficial account using Roberts’ name.]

[Swordsmyth]

Paul Craig Roberts has provided an update (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2018/10/26/my-suspended-twitter-account/), saying he does not use social media, and that a Twitter account operating in his name was taken down upon his request. Read below:

“My” Suspended Twitter Account
Paul Craig Roberts
Dear Readers:
It is all over the internet and international media that Twitter has suspended my account.
This is not the case.
I do not use social media.
I discovered that a Twitter account was operating in my name.
I requested that the account be taken down.
I have no recollection of giving anyone permission to operate a Twitter account in my name. I am still extremely busy trying to help family relatives impacted by Hurricane Michael and could only quickly look at the Twitter postings. It seemed to be mainly innocuous, consisting of links or quotes from my posted columns.
However, there were other things, such as appeals that money be sent to Alex Jones InfoWars and other things. I have no objection to Alex Jones. However, my webmaster and I were concerned that things could be posted that would be dangerous for me, such as libel, death threats to others, and so forth.
To repeat, the account was closed at my request.
To repeat, I do not use social media.
Paul Craig Roberts
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