Skylar
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I can agree with this mostly. Seems to me that the liberals are terrified of what Jones has said and may say, and will do anything to silence conservatives voices. This being said, I do not watch Mr. Jones because I don't like the way he presets himself overall. In conclusion this is a sad attempt by the fascist left.
I said in another thread, unintended consequences have a way of rearing their ugly heads and biting you when you least expect it, and it is this that liberals are heading for. Chaos, failure, violence and destruction. I pray for the country.
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ALEX JONES AND THE RISE OF CORPORATE CENSORSHIP
The banning of Infowars is an alarming act of capitalist intolerance.
So we’re now trusting the capitalist class, massive, unaccountable corporations, to decide on our behalf what we may listen to and talk about? This is the take-home message, the terrible take-home message, of the expulsion of Alex Jones’ Infowars network from Apple, Facebook and Spotify and of the wild whoops of delight that this summary banning generated among so-called liberals: that people are now okay with allowing global capitalism to govern the public sphere and to decree what is sayable and what is unsayable. Corporate censorship, liberals’ new favourite thing – how bizarre...
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Alex Jones and the rise of corporate censorship
Censorship is a legal term denoting the government infringment on free speech. This isn't it. Jones has every right to say whatever he'd like. But he has to abide the terms of service he's agreed to if he wants to do it on someone else's website.
Jones himself has his own terms of service with similar limitations on those posting on his website. With threats to ban people who violate them....with Jones even insisting that such a ban from Infowars isn't censorship.
The hypocrisy is almost comic.