Posted on 09/06/2018 2:05:10 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Prezactly.
First they came for the a-holes...
Seriously, Twitter is a sewer. And Twitter has a problem with Jones?!
I actually think Jones is crazy, like a fox. He is doing what needs to be done. Exposing globalism. He’s pretty funny too. We need every person with the ability to give the deep state a hard time. So he aptly coined infowars. Cause that’s what it is. 1984 squared.
I agree that there are times Jones is loathsome.
But he should not be silenced.
And they tried to stop bitchute by cutting off credit card support.
This.
Ah, I didn’t know that. I thought they were crypto based but maybe I am thinking of somewhere else.
Wake up, people. If they get away with this, we'll be looking at the Obozo years as the GOOD OLD DAYS.
Warning reminder. This is only a test. If they succeed in destroying alex jones they will see that as a green light to keep the banishment going. Free republic is one of many in thier bullseye. Whether you like alex jones or not the issue is way bigger than him. The best response is to download his still up app info wars in massive enough numbers that the war rooms on the left get a message that free speech still lives.
Well he is permanently banned here on FR. Has been for a long time.
The people who control social media think the same of you, and everybody else to the right of Trotsky. That's why it's foolish to get complacent about "Oh, it's just Alex Jones they're after today". Because, rest assured, they will soon start looking at YOU.
Meanwhile, nobody even considers censoring Farrakhan, BLM, or Antifa.
Alex Jones is a world class buffoon. He is not the hill to die on.
They (The Swamp) started a long time ago using the IRS to go after Tea Party groups. Their ruthless.
Is there a list of Conservatives/Libertarians that have been banned and/or deplatformed from social media? Charles C. Johnson is one of the first ones I remember. And he was on The Hill, yesterday.
Who the hell cares if he’s an asshole!
It’s called free speech and the right to voice an opposing opinion without fear of retaliation.
Yes - this IS the hill to die on because YOU are next.
They’re.
Not to my knowledge. Shadowbans are often - permanent bans like Jones here are rare but increasing daily.
Note Lewis Farrakhan still has his twitter account and even gets to go to state funerals with political elites like Bill Clinton.
Thought control in the media? It’s live and well.
Yep!
.> Well he is permanently banned here on FR. Has been for a long time.
Irrelevant. FR is not a platform; it’s a forum with a specific purpose and says so.
Nor is it meaningful that Alex is annoying (yep), wrong (often), a peddler of (IMO) poor-quality vitamins, or any other aspect of his or of Infowars. Definitely not a fan here.
The only relevant factor is that Twitter claims to be a platform, not a publisher, and yet targets a specific class of thought which is not illegal.
My opinion is NOBODY should be censored or banned.
Let them all speak.
I don’t think it is a duty of the hoster (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to decide what is proper speech. Don’t they have immunity from prosecution/lawsuits on what others say anyways?
The reason I say no one should be censored is there are NEVER going to be standards as to what is appropriate or hateful.
One could say all speech is hateful. Hate is a lousy standard, as it is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Just one example. History tells us the Turks massacred the Armenians in 1915. Turkey, however, denies this and actually tries to prosecute anyone who says it happened.
So whose standard should be used, Turkey’s or the rest of the world?
Did the Romans really wipe out Carthage? Will some Italians claim this is hate speech and demand such facts be publically banned?
It’s just crazy.
I will add I never trusted Glen Beck like some people here did. I think the same way of Alex Jones.
He has a right to speak, and have his say on Twitter, Facebook, etc., and I have the right not to read his stuff.
It’s too damn bad some people can’t just skip the stuff they don’t like instead of demanding it be erased.
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