Our long-standing general policy about no profanity, no personal attacks, no violence, no racism, etc, still stands. Alex Jones/infowars restrictions were in place on FR due to his 9/11 type conspiracy theories which we still do not want on FR.
RE Jones:
I always liked the guy. Yeah, he’s a little over the top sometimes... a lot of times, actually .... but basically he’s on our side of things.
Loves his Country, and wants it to be fixed. Like the rest of us.
Thanks Jim. This proves again what a clear thinking patriot you are. Alex has 20 years of standing up and sounding alarms. He has made mistakes, but to cen8him or burning him at tge stake is 1984ish.
Let’s not be next.
Surely they will start going after Democratic Underground, Daily KOS, Young Turks, etc.etc.etc.
It’s almost hilarious how he is pretty much vindicated since he predicted this was coming for years.
There are STILL four lights...
Makes the decision to keep your servers under local control sound good. Plus no advertising. Might not be long before most conservative sites are shut down for the same reason.
Thank you, Mr. Robinson.
News from the Boss:
Thanks for the ping, bitt. OUTSTANDING post JimRob! Thank you, sir.
Good move, Jim.
I will make a donation.
Thank you.
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This maybe an opportunity to build a large communication pipe connected to the Internet Backbone basically become an ISP or a Tier 1 Provider that services conservative groups. Of course this would cost big $$.
Good move.
btw, Facebook is also now monitoring and censoring content in private messages.
Great call, Jim.
I think AJ is a blowhard and even possibly an agent provocateur, but prisonplanet and Infowars have a lot of fans on the libertarian and conservative right, and they often provide very interesting perspectives.
IMO this is the key quote in this statement. These entities , and I am including Google as well, have become so large that they control the free flow of information.
The fact that they are colluding to censor, and silence someone specifically, just because their left wing ideology does not agree with him, is a very dangerous development.
These companies need to be broken down into smaller, competing entities, otherwise they become a problem for free speech.
They could essentially shut down political speech that does not match their left wing philosophy.
We stand together or hang separately. He is not my read of the day but why are they not wanting YOU to read this man? Why are they allowed to discriminate against conservatives in the stream of commerce? Dont give me that “private business” crap. That didn’t work legally with blacks and it doesn’t work with conservatives. This needs to be met with fierce objection.
Yes, this is extreme.
We’re talking about upwards of 10 internet tech companies all working in concert to try and drive someone with a different political viewpoint into web obscurity.
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Don’t all of those platforms have ways for an individual to block, mute or remove from their sight, anything they don’t want to see or read?
They should be doing as they advertise and leave it up to this individual to maintain their own censorship.