Posted on 08/06/2018 7:33:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Big tech’s coordinated purge of InfoWars — which was hit by bans from Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube in rapid succession — did not occur in a vacuum. On this issue, Silicon Valley bowed to CNN journalists and Democrat politicians who ceaselessly lobbied for the site to be censored. It’s a sign of how the concentration of power in America has shifted from big government to big tech that politicians are now lobbying tech companies rather than the other way round, but that’s exactly what happened over the course of the past few months, as Democrats applied relentless pressure on Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants to censor InfoWars.
Chief among them was Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), who demanded that a Facebook representative “explain” their decision not to ban InfoWars at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on social media censorship last month. Calling Jones as “well-known conspiracy theorist” whose “brand is bullying,” Deutch also demanded Google’s representative explain how many strikes it would take for a channel on Google-owned YouTube to be deleted.
He then asked Google’s representative if they thought conspiracy theories were a “problem,” and asked her to explain the company’s planned solutions. It seems that YouTube has now come up with a solution: ban the channels that Rep. Deutch objects to.
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I’m wearing mine more and more with each passing day.....
BIG TOTALITARIANS have always been able to ignore/censor/kill their critics.
Enemies domestic ALERT!
Amending amendment 1.
HOORAY A.J.
Still waiting for the nuke to go off that Alex and Roger claimed would happen on Inauguration Day
Alex is full of it. Doesn’t mean he should be taken down
SO, IT BEGINS! The purge of conservatism in America.
Basically there ARE no Conservative tech or media companies.
This is a crisis situation that requires more regulatory intervention than most of us would like.
“I always thought Alex Jones was full of it until today.”
Alex has been predicting this for months.
Ya don’t know what ya don’t know.
If you don’t listen to his broadcasts, you don’t know him.
AMEN! (in before your comment, or this whole thread gets pulled)
“Things they claim Jones says that are not true:
President Barack Obama was not born in America, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ran a sex-trafficking operation, and Nazis and other fascists were actually the creators of a left-wing authoritarianism that now threatens America.
Hmmmm....”
SO? What part of that ISN’T true?
1. Obama was definitely born in Kenya, I’ve seen his BC. I studied Obama’s nativity for YEARS. Am I an expert?, maybe.
2. I’m not exactly sure what he said about this, but she (her people) were behind child trafficking in Haiti. Child trafficking is usually for the purpose of procuring children for sex.
3. Not sure about the Nazi thing, but Alex is a student of history. “IF” he actually said or meant that, I’m sure he had a historical basis for it. “IF” he said this, I’m certain he would have thoroughly explained it.
Ya don’t know what ya don’t know.
“Just like this site won’t let you post one of their articles.”
Do you think FR is on par with Facebook, Google, Twitter, or YouTube?
I’m sorry that you just can’t see the forest, for the trees.
“Social media use our internet, so they are public utilities.”
That’s nonsense.
Is Free Republic a public utility?
“The Tech Giants should not be able to decide what the people have access to.”
They don’t.
www.infowars.com
“when they have massive control over public discourse,”
They don’t.
go to www.infowars.com
the site is up and running just fine.
“I find him entertaining. He does not speak like a real nut would.”
He is VERY intelligent. He’s NOT crazy. He is an ANTI-racist, an ANTI-homophobe.
He is a God loving Christian
He is a true patriot
He loves America
He’s Trump’s biggest supporter
He’s pro life
He’s pro gun/2nd amendment
He’s pro 1st amendment
He calls it like he sees it, sometimes to his own detriment
He’s REAL!
He’s FUNNY!
Best bumper music ever
He’s brave, talks about things that causes others to cower in fear.
Are you purposefully putting up straw men, like the fascist left, to feel good about it after knocking it down?
According to SimilarWeb:
YouTube Traffic Global Rank: 2
InfWars Traffic Global Rank: 4277
“Jones is one of the original 9-11 Truthers who insist that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job. He gaslights himself.”
.....”but that doesn’t mean that Jones isn’t a crackpot.”
The biggest (and I grant you it’s YUGE) mistake he ever made. Even today, he only backs off a little mainly talking about building 7, but he won’t back down totally. He talks about how it cost him big time. Hurt his career tremendously. I think he really believes it. Conspiracy theory? Sure.
The left is using this as a sledgehammer, that yes he gave to them, to beat him down with. They use it to discredit EVERYTHING else he says or does.
Almost everything else they say about him are LIES and distortions or misrepresentations.
I think he is WRONG about 9/11, but I refuse to crucify him for his opinion when everything else he is doing or saying, I agree with and appreciate all the great information and insight he brings to the table.
It may be.
It is an important issue that will soon be decided by the courts. I am very confident of that.
Notably, FR has never blocked anyone from signing up and posting here, and no one is ejected without egregious misconduct.
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>> “ Obama was definitely born in Kenya, I’ve seen his BC.” <<
It now appears that Obama is not really the son of Obama, and that he may have been born in the state of Washington.
“Are you purposefully putting up straw men, like the fascist left, to feel good about it after knocking it down?”
No, but I am also not running around like a twelve year old girl squealing that information and publishers are being blocked from the internet.
YouTube is #2 because it streams video, and the ranking is due to bits generated.
No publisher has been blocked or censored from the internet.
Not one.
He didn’t say 9/11 was an “inside job” in the sense that George W. Bush was in on it. He said it in the sense that elements of the deep state were aware of it and facilitated it. There is a difference. And we now know that there were people in the CIA who were aware of the hijackers and did not share that information with the FBI.
“Notably, FR has never blocked anyone from signing up and posting here, and no one is ejected without egregious misconduct.”
FR will not allow infowars articles to be posted here.
I was once banned for several months because I advocated euthanasia for terminal cancer patients, as my dad once was.
The courts will rightfully decide that Social Media platforms can decide who is allowed to post, and what they can post.
“The Internet” is not being censored. By anyone. All publishers who wish to pay their own freight are free to put up a web property and publish whatever they want, except child porn and a few other things.
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