Access to Social Media Is a Right That Should Be Defended

InfoWars founder Alex Jones takes photos at a hearing to examine foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms before the Intelligence Committee at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

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On May 2, Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram announced that it was permanently banning the accounts of several people, which it termed “dangerous individuals.” Those people included Paul Joseph Watson, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen, Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, and extreme leftist radical Louis Farrakhan.