Freedom of assembly, for the purpose of making views public, by carrying signs, making speeches and so on, is protected by precedent, by the Bill of Rights (US) and so on. However, the political climate in North America is such that xenophobes get everyone nodding in agreement that a political event is somehow "fake" or "inauthentic" if organized in collaboration with groups not based inside North America.
For example, we Quakers have a close-knit set of relationships connecting the Federated States meetings with those in the United Kingdom. We might get support from English Friends to divest of our slaves for example. This happened before the Civil War.
Many Quakers felt uncomfortable in areas where slavery was still legal in the eyes of the Supreme Court. They were coached not to tell neighbors what to do, but the neighbors couldn't help but feel some "holier than thou" attitude emanating from Friends in their midst.
By today's standards, if English Friends wanted to help organize an anti-slavery rally in Boston, and set up a Facebook account to help bring that about, the heavy hand of a censor might come along and report the transgression to authorities, and to the media. Listeners and viewers would learn to vilify anyone colluding on a global basis, rather than on a more narrowly constrained geographic basis.
Somehow it was to be made illegal for Ukrainians to fund protests in DC regarding their treatment, despite large numbers of Ukrainians enjoying Federation citizenship.
None of this made any sense, as the USG itself was highly leveraged and in debt, needing to collaborate and collude daily just to stay afloat. Trying to keep its citizens from using social media to organize public protests, while meanwhile engaging in international intrigue itself, was too much of a double standard for brave Americans to take seriously.
If Facebook wasn't going to champion our rights, we had other options.
We also knew it was our business to protect our right to collude. The dimwits in DC had picked the wrong friends and enemies too many times to exert much leadership in that regard. Telling Americans what to do and whom to trade with, was no longer the business of the bankrupt bosses with their obsolete forms of organized gangsterism.
For example, we Quakers have a close-knit set of relationships connecting the Federated States meetings with those in the United Kingdom. We might get support from English Friends to divest of our slaves for example. This happened before the Civil War.
Many Quakers felt uncomfortable in areas where slavery was still legal in the eyes of the Supreme Court. They were coached not to tell neighbors what to do, but the neighbors couldn't help but feel some "holier than thou" attitude emanating from Friends in their midst.
By today's standards, if English Friends wanted to help organize an anti-slavery rally in Boston, and set up a Facebook account to help bring that about, the heavy hand of a censor might come along and report the transgression to authorities, and to the media. Listeners and viewers would learn to vilify anyone colluding on a global basis, rather than on a more narrowly constrained geographic basis.
Somehow it was to be made illegal for Ukrainians to fund protests in DC regarding their treatment, despite large numbers of Ukrainians enjoying Federation citizenship.
None of this made any sense, as the USG itself was highly leveraged and in debt, needing to collaborate and collude daily just to stay afloat. Trying to keep its citizens from using social media to organize public protests, while meanwhile engaging in international intrigue itself, was too much of a double standard for brave Americans to take seriously.
If Facebook wasn't going to champion our rights, we had other options.
We also knew it was our business to protect our right to collude. The dimwits in DC had picked the wrong friends and enemies too many times to exert much leadership in that regard. Telling Americans what to do and whom to trade with, was no longer the business of the bankrupt bosses with their obsolete forms of organized gangsterism.
