Let’s Talk About Alex Jones Being “Banned From The Internet”
We need to have a talk about Alex Jones.
I would rather hope many of our readers don’t listen to Alex Jones or affiliate themselves with the beliefs of InfoWars, but if you do, hey, you do you. It’s not his beliefs I wish to defend or attack today, but the state of the Internet and his place – or currently lack thereof – in it.
Apple removed access to the InfoWars podcast from their systems. The InfoWars app is still in the app store, but the podcast is no longer available on its podcasting network. Facebook banned the InfoWars page. Spotify removed the podcast from its network.
These are private companies. If you are screaming about censorship, you’re wrong. You may not like that I’m calling you wrong, but censorship is a government issue, and these are private companies. They are free to refuse service to Jones if they want.
Jones still has a website. He has a show. He has listeners – I would argue that banning him from notably liberal-leaning platforms will only serve to increase his listener count, but whatever – and he has an audience that will see him as a martyr. Nothing except for his listener count is going to change. He hasn’t been “banned from the Internet” as many are claiming.
However, it is the reasoning some of these companies gave that is most troublesome. Facebook cited repeated violations of their terms of service, but they have a habit of, at best, quieting voices they don’t agree with. Apple, which is the most powerful company in human history, labeled Jones “hate speech.”
That label is the problem. “Hate speech” is a phrase that has become overused in the modern era. In many cases, it is something as slight as someone taking offense or disagreeing with the material. For these companies to use the term as their reasoning for getting rid of his material is that tiny snowflake at the top of the mountain that tumbles down the slope.
It will grow and grow until it flattens someone.
I wouldn’t care about this story nearly as much had they just said “Jones’ views on the Sandy Hook shooting victims, as well as other tragedies, do not reflect the views of our community and for that reason we have removed his content.” I would actually be okay with that. But, that’s not what they did. They gave a hugely broad reason for their actions and that reason is virtually guaranteed to become an umbrella term for the future banning of “disagreeable” content.
I’m not down with that. I’m not down with mob mentality having that much power.
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Source: https://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2018/08/07/lets-talk-alex-jones-banned-internet/
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LOL, the social internet media has outed themselves an another arm of the liberal democratic social party such as the MSM. Looks like Alex Jones was doing a bit of harm to their socialist cause.
AJ BANS you if you call his dear “bl*cks” NEGROES. As you know, I consider calling them the “b” word as an ethnic slur and it PISSED them off the past few decades of this behaviour modification given to you by liberals.
If you notice Negro behaviour has gone downhill since then.
Censorship usually benefits the views of the censor. I do my own censoring. If I don’t like it I don’t view it. Such as the “VIEW” when it comes on I turn it off before I puke. The internet social media is trying to hide behind the term of “CENSORSHIP” when in truth conservative views make the want to puke. Are you in good hands?????
Lets face it. Its quite obvious. The internet social media will go to any length to promote their liberal democrat social agenda and silence opposing views. I’m not a died in the wool fan of Alex Jones and I think some of his comments are quite frankly ridiculous. Sometimes outlandishly humorous. Sometimes he is his own worst enemy. This does not require big brother censorship as I can do it myself.
Censorship is a ploy to guide the weak minded in the direction of the censors views.
Censorship is an insult to anyone with half a brain!