There's a good analogy. There's some wackball here who buys (and sells) that whole Sandy Hook Hoax song and dance. I put him on Ignore for that reason, because an asshat who would spit in the face of grieving parents disgusts me.
That doesn't mean I'm "censoring" the asshat selling the hoax. He still posts whatever diarrhea he posts; I just don't have to wade through it.
Jones is like Trump - First and foremost a snake oil salesman.
He worked overtime to get the boot - with increasingly hateful and violent rhetoric.
Now he will cash in - just like he does with everything else.
Apparently his fans love to be picked up by the feet and have the change shaken out of their pockets.
We need full access to even the information we don't like. It gives us a much better chance of achieving informed opinions and beliefs. These types of bannings are Un-American, and bad for all of us in the end.
So your computer is incapable of surfing to InfoBoors.com? What, did CNN send a tech to break into your house under cover of darkness to hack your browser?
As I noted before, and there's no way to wiggle out of this --- your quest has nothing to do with the content; you're just butthurt over the idea that not as many other people will see it.
That's THEIR business. Not yours.
While I agree with you on a philosophical level, I don't really think you have been paying attention completely with what has been going on.
Platforms such as Facebook, Apple iTunes, and YouTube own such a large part of market share, they have a real ability to influence the public opinion.
As such, they aren't merely just, "businesses" anymore, they have become de facto public utilities.
I have watched over the past decade many of my formerly independent minded friends become more radically left minded due to social media because they refuse to go outside of these platforms.
I am not one of these folks. I always go outside of the box because I know how these platforms work and I know how the major media companies and major tech companies work. I know how essential it is to find information from all sources. It shocks me to find that you believe that this is a beneficial development.
Hardly. I've never implied any such thing and I use zero of those toys myself, having considered them an abject waste of time from the beginning. But since you draw the comparison, television as propaganda tool should certainly receive the same criticism, shouldn't it?
But ultimately that's up to the viewer, the Nosebooker, the Twit, to winnow his/her info from the chaff. I don't hold an opinion on whether Alex John Brinkley Jones should be on YouTube or not. It's not my site. That's up to YouTube, simple as that. Or Fecesbook or television, whatever the medium.
I've been pointing out all day that this butthurt whining is not about Jones'
content at all, but rather about controlling how many people might see it. Their diapers are chafed because without YouTube (apparently) nobody will know the wondrous insight of a grown man who sells grunting noises and primal screams so he can set up his John Brinkley routine (which doesn't say a lot for the strength of Brinkl... uh, Jones' argument, does it). So ultimately it's not about Alex Jones' voice; it's about their control freak designs on somebody else's platform; dictating how they (YouTube et al) may be allowed to use
their own site.
It's the flip side of the coin of the Sean Spicer kerfuffle last week, where Spicer threatened to sue the Associated Press for passing on --- not originating but
passing on -- an existing story of an incident where Spicey got accused. In that case Spicey wanted to control how much of the public would NOT get to read the story; in this case Jones' sycophants want to control how much of the public DOES. And in each case the info is already readily available for anyone who seeks it.
If some clown joined this site and started posting paeans to necrophilia, the site could and probably would ban him, and it would be within its rights to do so. Just because they provide a platform for discussion doesn't mean they have to tolerate literally anything on it; it's their site. Same thing with YouTube.
Alex Jones is not, and has not been the only victim of this blacklisting and shadow banning. If they can do this to him, they can do this to anyone, at anytime in the future. Now it is Alex Jones, and they use it for his unpopular speech, what happens when they start to use it against those who protest against a war against Iran? Will you be so happy to have those voices marginalized so they don't come up in searches in Google, or in videos on FB, iTunes, or YouTube?
The great thing about the internet was the unpopular POV made it to the masses, but now, only the corporate CFR, MSM establishment POV will be allowed. That is what is coming. And if you disagree with neoliberalism at home, or neoconservatism abroad? Your voice will once again be silenced.
Now That Facebook, YouTube And Apple Have Come For Alex Jones, They Will Start Coming After The Rest Of Us
Now That Facebook, YouTube And Apple Have Come For Alex Jones, They Will Start Coming After The Rest Of Us
". . . Right now, the global elite do not have control of the White House, but they have discovered a powerful new weapon in the tech companies. They are trying to use this new weapon to smash Alex Jones and other top conservative voices, and they are doing it with a tyrannical flair that is absolutely frightening. I think that it was quite appropriate that the official WikiLeaks Twitter account made a parallel between this purge and an old Star Wars movie…
The empire strikes back: Apple, Spotify, Facebook and Google/Youtube all purge Infowars/Alex Jones. Yes, Infowars has frequent nonsense, but also a state power critique. Which publisher in the world with millions of subscribers is next to be wiped out for cultural transgression?
And it is quite noteworthy that this comes almost exactly three months before the mid-term elections.
Do you think that is just a coincidence?
After all of the uproar about “election interference”, now the big tech companies are overtly doing it very publicly and in a way that nobody can misunderstand.
The biggest reason why they are lashing out at Alex Jones, Mike Adams and a whole host of other top conservative voices is because Donald Trump never would have gotten elected without them. I guess they figure that if they can start silencing some of those voices that they can turn future elections in their favor.
If it was just a few conservative voices that were being censored, that would be one thing. But the truth is that hundreds and hundreds of conservatives have had Facebook pages taken down, YouTube accounts terminated and Twitter accounts shadowbanned. I won’t repeat all of the information that I have previously published on this topic in this article. Instead, if you would like to learn more I would recommend checking out some of my previous articles…
In the end, this is not about Alex Jones.
This is about a once free society that is becoming more Orwellian with each passing day.
Now that they have come for Alex Jones, they aren’t going to stop.
It might not be tomorrow, but eventually they are going to come for you.
I would like to end this article with a few words from Dr. Michael Brown’s excellent article about all of this censorship…"
WAY too long; didn't read, sorry. Even I don't get that longwinded....
But as far as 'they're coming for (whoever)" --- how come the same wags are on the exact opposite side with the NFL kneelers? Irony, that....
