Facebook, Google, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify all banned Infowars material and they did it at about the same time between Sunday and today.
All but one of the major content platforms have banned the American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, as the companies raced to act in the wake of Apple’s decision to remove five podcasts by Jones and his Infowars website.
Facebook unpublished four pages run by Jones for “repeated violations of community standards”, the company said on Monday. YouTube terminated Jones’s account over him repeatedly appearing in videos despite being subject to a 90-day ban from the website, and Spotify removed the entirety of one of Jones’s podcasts for “hate content”.
Facebook’s removal of the pages – the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page – comes after the social network imposed a 30-day ban on Jones personally “for his role in posting violating content to these pages”.
Alex Jones thinks it’s a trial balloon to see how far they can go with censorship.
INFOWARS RESPONDS
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— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 6, 2018
Wikileaks asks if people can be purged for cultural transgressions. The social media powers say he’s engaging in hate speech. What do you think?
Is he too offensive for the First Amendment? Also, should private companies with the almighty’s power over the Internet be allowed to censor?
The empire strikes back: Apple, Spotify, Facebook and Google/Youtube all purge Infowars/Alex Jones. Yes, Infowars has frequent nonsense, but also a state power critique. Which publisher in the world with millions of subscribers is next to be wiped out for cultural transgression? https://t.co/XAEQWr58hw
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 6, 2018
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Consider what this Twitter user wrote.
I do not support Alex Jones and the ridiculous/bad things He spreads BUT we shouldn’t celebrate when someone is censored. Today it is someone we disagree with but you never know who an angry mob will decide is next #infowars
— Joshua Nehmeh (@JoshuaNehmeh) August 6, 2018
Whatever your opinion of Alex Jones, remember that once one person is banned, more will follow. Less controversial people will be in the chopping block.
It’s not only that; the social media giants did this all simultaneously. Doesn’t that mean they are working in tandem?
Check out this amazing candidate in California if you want to know who else they ban. Hit the link.
THE SENTINEL IS A FREE SPEECH ADVOCATE! WE ARE NOT OKAY WITH INFOWARS BEING CENSORED, MISS HENG CENSORED.
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