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Pro-Trump loon Alex Jones loses youtube, facebook, and itunes accounts in victory for capitalism and free markets!

posted 6 years ago by eYeDEF (5050)
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The annihilating decisions to delete the accounts of Infowars from Facebook, Itunes, and Youtube will exact heavy financial costs to the conspiracy loon Alex Jones. The disinformation fake news specialist will surely now have to scale back his operations.

Censorship by government is wrong and anti-democratic. But the freedom that private companies enjoy to do business with whom they wish is part and parcel of the private sector liberties of a capitalist free market system.

Conservative hypocrites love to wrongly decry this as censorship when in fact they should know better that private property rights are sacrosanct in America.

In America an individual has the right to censor whomever they want from their private property.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-is-removing-alex-jones-and-infowars-podcasts-from

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

HaHa!

BIG win for 'real news' outlets which T-rump and his T-rumptards are out to destroy. BIG lose for T-rump and his T-rumptards. But they now have QAnon to get their daily doses of delusion and 'T-rump derangement'.

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 6 years ago

New York Times caused trillion dollar wars over lies about WMDs. Alex Jones said no. I can see why Jewish wealth had to come down on him.

[–] Rorikon (17856) 6 years ago

He's always saying no though, that's the thing. It just so happens him always going the opposite of government is sometimes right.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Bush caused trillion dollar wars over WMD lies. Not the media. Get your facts straight.

[–] Keelai (34864) 6 years ago

Bush created the lie about WMDs in order to steal Iraq's oil. Any WMDs (chemical) would've been given to them by the U.S. when Iraq went to war with Iran. Also, conservatives bought into the nonsense about Saddam Hussein being a part of the 9/11 attack which was ridiculous considering that Muslim extremist hated him since he was secular and he had nothing to do with it.

Alex Jones is a hatemonger and liar which is why he's being sued and getting tossed off the internet. Bye Felicia!

[–] Thrillhouse (1509) 6 years ago

Were Facebook Google and Apple really dumb/arrogant enough to all do this at the same time? That's racketeering. It's also discrimination. Businesses who choose to open their doors to the public are required by law to serve everyone.

Liberals still want hate speech laws though because corporations need every tool available to fight a guerilla war. Shame you guys gave up on trying to win hearts and minds. This is a guy in a basement versus trillion dollar multinationals.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

The opposite. He was given multiple and repeated prior warnings. They don't just delete your account after your first violation.

Alex Jones kept uploading videos promoting hate speech and violence against Muslims and transgender people. That's a no no. That's why Apple kicked him off itunes too. Same goes for Facebook. Jones kept provoking them all at the same time, that's why he brought it all on himself at the same time.

The beauty of American capitalism is that while the Constitution doesn't define hate speech, private companies can define hate speech as whatever they want and boot haters from their platforms. Nothing illegal or unconstitutional about it. It's just business owners exercising their freedom to control what they own.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Too bad they don’t boot T-rump off of Twitter for his hate speech. President or not he needs to abide by the same rules.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Yeah twitter's got a real problem they gotta resolve. Their platform has transformed into a blunt object favored by trolls that destroys careers and lives.

But I don't expect they'll be banning the troll-in-chief anytime soon.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Are you saying a guy in a basement is less powerful than a trillion dollar multinational when it comes to social media? Seriously? It’s the message being sent, not the location or size of the sender.

[–] Rorikon (17856) 6 years ago

Banned for glorifying violence which violates graphic violence policies and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslim, or immigrants which violates hate speech policies.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Unofficially, I think what did him in is the video he did where he insinuated Robert Mueller needed to be taken out to protect Trump. That inspired a ton of backlash.

when he addressed Russia investigation special counsel Robert Mueller on his show, imitated firing a gun, and said, “You’re going to get it, or I’m going to die trying.” (Facebook’s statement almost certainly is in response.)

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17655658/alex-jones-facebook-youtube-conspiracy-theories

[–] Rorikon (17856) 6 years ago

Actually I find this worrying when you think about it. All 3 banned him and info wars within a timeframe of 12 hours. It's like they all got together and just went after him.

[–] Keelai (34864) 6 years ago

Jones advocated murdering the special counsel is what's worrying. If you had a website, would you keep him on and risk lawsuits and condemnation if some kook harmed Mueller? Let's see if Fox will hire him.

Conservatives, especially Trump and his supporters, are afraid of an investigation of Russian spying and influence. Where do their loyalties lie - Russia or U.S.?

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Jones definitely looks like he was trying to set up Mueller to be taken out by some nut that watches his show.

This is from a few weeks ago when he spent some time painting Mueller as a pedophile that earned him an earlier youtube warning:

https://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-threatens-shoot-pedophile-robert-mueller-accuses-zuckerberg-1038500

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 6 years ago

Conspiracy theories exists because people like to seek order in chaos, also people are fed up with bs from politicians.

[–] Keelai (34864) 6 years ago

"also people are fed up with bs from politicians."

Then why are they supporting the biggest BSer of them all - Trump?

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

people are fed up with bs from politicians

So they lap up actual BS from an attention whore who said under oath, and threat of perjury, than the Alex Jones persona on his show is a character and not meant to be taken seriously?

At least you admit that his followers have no grip on reality.

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 6 years ago

most people are stupid, why did hitler have supporters, he told the people what they wanted to hear

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

That's a bit oversimplified I think. Populist politicians tell people what they want to hear, that's why they're popular. But if it were that easy, every politician would be a populist.

People had different reasons for supporting Hitler. Some voted for him for economic reasons, others for nationalistic reasons, and some as a protest vote. Sound familiar? The German elites made the mistake of vastly underestimating him. They saw him as a joke and supported him because they thought they were really in control of him. The worst part is that Hitler’s anti-semitism did not bother everyone that did cast a vote for him enough to not vote for him.

I'd say the same for those that voted Trump and continue to support him in spite of his barbaric migrant concentration camps.

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 6 years ago

Conspiracy theories exists because people like to seek order in chaos, also people are fed up with bs from politicians.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Or perhaps some of them are TRUE?

[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 6 years ago

I like to see the evidence first

[–] Noufa (397) 6 years ago

Companies are not moral entities.

They may take your side on occasion but do not confuse that with agreement. They currently advocate "diversity" because they'll get sued if they're found to be creating a hostile workplace for a protected minority. Don't get me wrong, there are "progressive" people working in most large companies. Just like there are devout Christians going back to when "family values" was the narrative.

All I'm saying is that government tends to tip the scales. Companies are far more responsive to government demands than the marketplace of ideas.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Yes, no confusion here.

I wrote this post tongue in cheek. This wasn't meant as an advocacy piece for laissez-faire economics.

[–] dlancer (2036) 6 years ago

What's really funny is he most likely would've increased all earnings on all platforms if Hillary was elected. Trump is the destroyer of everything right-wing.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Trump's just a destroyer of all things; of lives that enter his orbit, of careers, his touch is poison. He's the destroyer-in-chief.

[–] dlancer (2036) 6 years ago

True. I guess it seems like he mostly destroys republicans because those are the people in close proximity to him.

[–] BinjinInjun (23) 6 years ago

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 6 years ago

Exactly. These business owners are deciding not to allow him to use their platform to say what he says because they want no part of being being accused of having blood on their hands and found liable because they fear what he might say.

It's just a smart business decision for them to drop him like a log.

Great point.