Notice Infowars BANNED from Youtube, Facebook, Spotify, Apple.

Wasn't he promoting violence?

 

They own PBS?

 

Calling him a rube is a personal attack and ought not to happen.

 

...ahhh, but Fox is credible?

 

It’s a slippery slope that you all seem to have no problem with. Censoring and removing someone because you disagree with their political views is blatantly a horrible thing to do. Just wait until it happens to someone y’all like, listen to, or read from.

 

You think that hasn't happened in my lifetime?

Nixon buried a ton of information during the war I wish people could've had access to as well...Lenny Bruce was arrested many times for free speech...John Lennon was blacklisted and hounded by the FBI and religious groups after one TV interview about the Beatles popularity..check out how many works of literature have been banned over the last century

 

...sorry, but freedom of speech is not a one way street...true, people can say whatever they want but that does not exempt them from people with a different point of view or from people who have permission to censor them...plus, I'm 99% sure that Alex Jones/Info Wars agreed to some sort of "Terms of Service" when he first created an account.

...people can come here and post as they choose but if the Mods deem it necessary, their posts may be edited/deleted or they may also be banned...that's part of the TOS...do you think that's wrong too?

 

Exactly, this isn't censorship, it's private companies exercising their right to terminate services because Jones didn't comply with their terms. These companies have been "censoring" content, like nudity and violence, long before Info Wars was removed.

 

I don't see this as a being politically motivated as much as the company received, and has received, thousands of complaints about Alex jones. If this was politically motivated they would have done it way before now. He violated there Terms and Service agreement and purposely tried to rile up his viewers to essentially turn into a mob and march and in one of his latest videos you could easily argue that he threatened to do violence against Robert Mueller and threatening violence against a federal official is a felony.

 

Not so, nudity and violence are still available on that medium.

 

What kind of nudity and violence are you referring to?...and what medium?

 

except for the ones they've banned...if you find something offensive and use their service you can complain to them just as people did about the ones that have been banned....suicides on camera and beheadings have been removed from youtube many times as well...you choose your viewing material...they choose to edit material they find offensive...this is such a simple issue.

 

Here's YouTube's and Facebook's terms of service:

https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms

https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/objectionable_content

You might be able to find some stuff temporarily available but these mediums specifically warn you that your account will be shut down for violating their terms and they have been doing that for a long time.

 

Five of the largest media corporations all received complaints and all independently decided to ban him within hours of one another?

 

Yeah..some of the really bad stuff gets yanked fast.

Hey Spuds, I am not trying to pick nits with you. I understand the TOS on both platforms.

The simple fact is that nudity is still available on You Tube...hmm, not so much is on Facebook..it gets yanked fairly quickly.

As to violence, think about it. That stuff is all over YouTube..and as to Facebook, the simple fact is that with all the cell phones active at every event, the first thing people do is post it to their Facebook account. Heck, a large amount of News Feed comes from that medium as well as being allowed in courts.

 

I'm not arguing if these videos exist or not, my point is, these are private companies with Terms of Service. They don't want to show certain things but some folks, such as Alex Jones, insist on posting these things anyway despite clear terms and repeated warnings. When these companies find out about violations they delete/ban the videos/posters. It is not censorship or a violation of free speech. No one has the right to tell Alex Jones he can't make videos or post them on the internet, just like no one has the right to tell YouTube or Facebook they have to allow videos of porn, suicides, terrorist attacks, etc. on their site. These are for profit companies and can't be forced to cut their own throats.

 

I found this there

 

also found violence

 

Okay...so now you want to qualify what you stated was an absolute.

As to this current line of thinking, Jones was banned for "hate speech". To me this is a very broad definition that can be used to silence from any chosen platform anyone you do not agree with. It does not take much effort to go on any of the mediums that he was removed from and find people that are as rabid or extreme, that have the protection of being socially popular with a chosen demographic.

 

Kevin Spacey was banned from every movie making producer on the planet at about the same time....for fondling coworkers.....his Netflix show was the number 1 show in Netflix history.....didn't matter...they dumped a cash cow for ethical reasons...even Ridley Scott redid a movie he starred in for ethical reasons. How many folks cancelled their Netflix subscriptions over it? Right.....not one