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Friday, May 7, 2021

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

By Kyle Smith May 6, 2021

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.”............To Read More.....

 

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