Wow Alex Jones banned from internet

[Robert]

 Hours after Alex Jones and Infowars were banned from iTunes and Facebook, The Alex Jones Channel on YouTube which had 2.4 million followers was terminated on Monday "for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines," along with the Ron Gibson channel which archived Jones' daily shows.

                                    Also in a conservative purge

Twitter Suspends Candace Owens After She Tweets Out Sarah Jeong’s Words (But Replaces ‘White’ With ‘Jewish’ And ‘Black’

Twitter suspended conservative commentator Candace Owens on Sunday for imitating New York Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong’s anti-white tweets, but restored Owens’ account access following a backlash on social media.

Owens, the communications director for conservative activist group Turning Points USA, on Saturday sent out a pair of tweets quoting  Jeong’s anti-white statements — which did not earn her a Twitter suspension — but swapped out the word “white” with “Jewish” and “black.”

                    But in another story CNN goes to Sturgis and finds

Bikers in Sturgis salute the leader of their pack: President Trump

http://www.krtv.com/story/38820797/bikers-in-sturgis-salute-the-leader-of-their-pack-president-trump

And remember the guy that smashed Trump's star well it seems  he may get his.

Guy Who Admitted To Smashing Trump’s Star Charged With Felony, Faces Jail Time

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/06/trump-star-vandal-charged-felony/

[Serk]

By censoring him, they're proving him right, in a perverse way... And adding to his street cred.

(disclaimer - I fully support the rights of non-government entities to allow or disallow anyone on their platform as they desire, but it sure smells funny when so many of them shut down one person all at once.)

[DirtyDan]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend ?

I’m not much into Alex Jones, but........

Dan

[rocketray]

over at "the Liberty Mill" they did the same to the conservative "Sgt. Report" last week...he now has had to go  to some alternate web posting.....remember the Tea Party contributors all getting audits from hell from the IRS....maybe the same is coming for those who dare to read alternative news from the guys/swells that own the world.....the chip is coming soon...and then the deletion of some of those chips..

[Shotgun]

It's all about control.

[The emperor has no clothes]

By censoring him, they're proving him right, in a perverse way... And adding to his street cred.

(disclaimer - I fully support the rights of non-government entities to allow or disallow anyone on their platform as they desire, but it sure smells funny when so many of them shut down one person all at once.)

This guy hasn't been right about much at all. He has made money off of the parents of murdered 6 year olds. He has made money off of all kinds of vile crap he posts. He is disgusting. He has NO street cred. Why would ANY company let him post his "INFO" on their site ? Nobody has infringed his rights.

[Robert]

Watch this ad and decide for yourselves about Facebooks censorship. Its a great ad and very uplifting.

Facebook has reportedly blocked a California congressional candidate’s campaign from using a video as an ad on the social media platform because they deemed it “shocking, disrespectful or sensational.”

https://youtu.be/GUJXqJ4f_to

[Serk]

Once again, satire is a little too close to reality...

https://babylonbee.com/news/study-humanity-just-a-few-more-bans-away-from-only-having-good-opinions-on-the-internet/

[98valk]

Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet: Reason Roundup
https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/31/democrats-tech-policy-plans-leaked

‘Survival of our democracy’ depends on banning sites like InfoWars, Dem senator says 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/survival-of-our-democracy-depends-on-banning-sites-like-infowars-democratic-senator-says

 WE ARE A REPUBLIC,  Democracy is mob rules.

Midterm Meddling: Facebook Blocks Republican Candidate’s Ad
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/06/facebook-blocks-congressional-candidate-elizabeth-hengs-video-ad-about-communist-crimes/

Facebook has banned Republican congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng’s campaign video ad about communist crimes that led her family to flee Cambodia for the U.S., claiming the platform doesn’t allow “shocking, disrespectful, or sensational” content.

Elizabeth Heng, who is running for California’s 16th congressional district seat, made the video about her parent’s escape from mass-murder by the Khmer Rouge communists in the 1970s.

was banned and 18hrs later Oh we made a mistake not banned.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/07/instagram-bans-tommy-robinson-as-social-media-companies-purge-far-right-7807413/

Facebook Is Asked to Change Rules for Journalists and Scholars     SO FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA NEWS AGENCIES STILL WANT TO POST BUT BLOCK EVERYBODY ELSE
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/us/politics/facebook-first-amendment.html

The Ten Planks of the
Communist Manifesto
1848 by Karl Heinrich Marx
No.  6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.

[pago cruiser]

Mr Jones makes a very good living at...embellishment; usually at the expense of others.

Brennan Gilmore, a former State Department official and Democratic Party activist who attended last summer’s violent far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va. Mr. Gilmore, 39, was on the street on Aug. 12 when James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing a woman, Heather Heyer, and injuring several others.

After Mr. Gilmore posted a video of the episode online and spoke about it repeatedly to the media, Mr. Jones published his own video on Infowars, accusing him in a rambling jeremiad of being a plant from the Central Intelligence Agency employed by the billionaire George Soros.

Mr. Jones went on to suggest that Mr. Gilmore may have been involved in the attack on Ms. Heyer to bring about what he described as “the downfall of Trump.”  In March, Mr. Gilmore sued Mr. Jones for defamation, arguing that he had suffered threats and harassment because of the report.

In defending himself, Mr. Jones has claimed in court papers that his allegations concerning Mr. Gilmore were “opinion, not statements of fact” and that Infowars is a “freewheeling” website, “in which hyperbole and diatribe reign as the preferred tools of discourse.” His viewers, Mr. Jones maintained, “expect an interview or monologue to be more free-flowing and opinionated and less precise in its use of language than an article or a book.”


In other words, anything goes.

This guy was also a key player in Pizza Gate; requesting viewers to go to the restaurant and investigate the Hillary child sex ring... We all know how that turned out.  He did later publicly apologize to the restaurant owner - on the day before the deadline for punitive damages in a Texas libel suit to kick in.

He is still claiming that the Sandy Hook School massacre was a hoax; and enough of his minions believe him to continually harass the kids parents.  WTH?  Kids died there; this is not real hard to verify. 

But wait, there's more! 
Last week Mr. Jones broadcast a bizarre accusation that Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, was involved in a child sex ring. In an online broadcast, Mr. Jones addressed Mr. Mueller while repeatedly imitating firing a handgun, saying: “It’s the real world. Politically. You’re going to get it, or I’m going to die trying.”

IMHO, this guy is a nut job.
The court verdicts should be interesting.

[DirtyDan]

So the only way to have freedom of speech is to CONTROL it ?

Dan

[Gavin_Sons]

You have the right to say whatever you want. Just the same as you have the right not to listen to BS when you hear it coming on. Many choose to listen to BS then complain about it. Those people are the real problem. If BS gets no reaction it will go away.

[Willow]

Here as elsewhere the terms "banned from internet" are a bit strong, actually a misstatement.  A private company chose to not provide a service to Mr. Jones.  Whether that was a good or not good decision is certainly up for discussion but it does fall within the definition of freedom for that company (or those companies).

We either support freedom or we don't.  If we do it applies to both sides.

[Alberta Patriot]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict public opinion there is chilling to say the least.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of crap. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property. 

[Alberta Patriot]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of poop. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property. 

That is pretty much the simplistic response I expected from you

[Alberta Patriot]

The Tech Giants stopped simply being just "private companies" a while ago when their influence jumped the American Borders to cast their influence world wide!!!

[The emperor has no clothes]

The Tech Giants stopped simply being just "private companies" a while ago when their influence jumped the American Borders to cast their influence world wide!!!

You do understand private companies are allowed to do business in other markets ? The only “brown shirts”  is the poop you are regurgitating. You are free to go listen to this person as much as you desire. I imagine you do.

[Alberta Patriot]

To my point, and I am hoping that these rulings are expanded globally.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2017/03/16/7-reasons-why-europes-antitrust-cases-against-google-are-a-big-deal/

[Ramie]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of poop. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property. 

While I agree they have every right and I personally do not listen or read Alex Jones the hypocrisy of it all turns my stomach.   They seem to have no problems with people like Louis Farrakhan or Antifa spouting hate unless people pressure them and point out the hypocrisy.

[Alberta Patriot]

A few weeks back my wife shared a political article on facebook that she found particularly interesting along with her personal thoughts...she was promptly shadow banned. How did she know...none of her friends could see her post...that is too much power and influence exercised by thought police from a foreign country.
It is time for some serious laws to be implemented outside the USA.

[..]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of poop. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property. 

While I agree they have every right and I personally do not listen or read Alex Jones the hypocrisy of it all turns my stomach.   They seem to have no problems with people like Louis Farrakhan or Antifa spouting hate unless people pressure them and point out the hypocrisy.

 

[MAD6Gun]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of poop. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property. 

 Maybe, but those same private companies would have no problem letting hate filled rants of Louis Farrakhan and antifa on their sites without a problem. This hate speech is OK but when people like Diamond and Silk say something against this hate they are sensored.  That is called hypocrisy. Having said that I don't like Alex Jones either.

 I called Mark Zuckerberg a racist on facebook. My reason. Because he consistently sensors black conservative people like Diamond & Silk, Colion Noir,Alonzo Rachel and Candice Owen just to name a few because they dare to question the liberal montra. I called him out because you know for a fact if these four had been liberals sensored by a conservative site that site would be called out as racist for sure.  Heck, you couldn't say anything about our last president or even question his policies without being called a racist.

[Alberta Patriot]

An opinion from another Canadian...if you have a spare 13:32 to listen to what he has to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBo9uRuTVYk
When all intellectual contributors, no matter their ideology are treated equally, I will have nothing more to say.
When less than intellectual discourse, vitriol and actual violence from either side towards others are treated equally, again I will have nothing more to say.

[The emperor has no clothes]

Alex Jones is a loose cannon and the perfect place to start for the tech giants when permanently eliminating views that don't line up with their dogma, but we all know that it is just the beginning of the long shadow that is going to be cast over freedom of thought and speech...not just in the USA, but everywhere.
That is too much power in the hands of a few zealots located in the hermetically sealed echo chamber of silicone valley. Their monopoly on the gathering and dissemination of "ALL" information needs to end sooner than later. These Brown Shirts are on a similar path to that in Berlin 80 years ago but with  global implications. Google's willingness, for example, to collude with Chinese authorities to restrict social opinion there is chilling to say the least.

What a crock of poop. A couple private companies refused to let a hurtful, despicable douche bag spout his BS on THIER property.  

 Maybe, but those same private companies would have no problem letting hate filled rants of Louis Farrakhan and antifa on their sites without a problem. This hate speech is OK but when people like Diamond and Silk say something against this hate they are sensored.  That is called hypocrisy. Having said that I don't like Alex Jones either.

 I called Mark Zuckerberg a racist on facebook. My reason. Because he consistently sensors black conservative people like Diamond & Silk, Colion Noir,Alonzo Rachel and Candice Owen just to name a few because they dare to question the liberal montra. I called him out because you know for a fact if these four had been liberals sensored by a conservative site that site would be called out as racist for sure.  Heck, you couldn't say anything about our last president or even question his policies without being called a racist.

I've never called Mark Zuckerberg anything. Honestly social media is not in my wheelhouse. Some of you have much more knowledge of it than I. But I doubt a company that is about making money would want to alienate half the population. As a matter of fact, I KNOW there is mucho conservative viewpoints on Facebook. I hear about it constantly. I don't know for a fact that if they were liberals anybody would have been called anything. I am positive that you and many others here said many things about our last president and his policies and were never called racists. If you were, I sure don't remember it. As far as Alex Jones and his "InfoWars", I'm glad to hear you don't like him either. But, sadly there are more than a few who do, many here on this forum.  

[Alberta Patriot]

A simple and patently obvious solution would be at hand, but the tech giants are not interested in being equal opportunity platforms, and plenty of evidence is piling up that will eventually get them dragged into unending litigation.