ohnonotgmail wrote: » He does what he does for money. Cutting off his income is the right way to stop him.
Ipso wrote: » Yes, but this will make him more popular, turn him into a martyr and feed into the persecution complex feedback loop for his oxygen deprived at birth followers. What really needs to happen is to have a series of defamation lawsuits (a couple items he done recently seemed to imply Mueller or Comey, or someone similar, rape children) where he is reduced to absolutely nothing. I don't think it's just an act, the man has some serious issues but he is surrounded by other supposed adults that should be able to advise him.
Cienciano wrote: » The only bad thing about this is Alex Jones got as big as he did. He should have been kicked off these platforms years ago.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station’s operators $15,000 — a fine the FCC says in a lawsuit the operators are refusing to pay. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin alleges Liberty Radio operated on a channel without a license since at least 2013. The lawsuit names as defendants Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick.
The Legend Of Kira wrote: » The argument its private company/ private business etc I won,t be hypothetical but I will use a real life example, the ashers bakery case over the refusal to bake the cake, some might say & make the same argument they re a private company they have a right to refuse, how many who support social media companies banning people for different reasons using the argument they re private companies also support ashers bakery right to refuse ?https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2023978/gareth-lee-v-ashers-baking-company-what-is-the-gay-cake-row-case-update/
Billy86 wrote: » If a boards.ie poster lead a charge that Ana Kriegel's death a few months back was a hoax and goaded others into sending her parents death threats to the point they had to move house, multiple times and hundreds of miles away from her grave... and then continued to goad about it being a hoax, would you want that poster banned, or would you scream about 'free speech' in their defense?
Billy86 wrote: » I know, and that's why it puts a big smile on my face to see the same thing that let him spread his bile and hatred without consequence from the providers (making money) now come back and bite him in the ass as Patreon want nothing to do with him for that exact same reason (losing money). Karma sometimes truly is a thing of beauty.
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » Alex Jones wasn't banned for Sandy Hook, he was banned for 'hate speech' / 'glorifying violence'.
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » ... just read the statements, jesus. No patreon 'want nothing to do with' an anti-islam guy because mastercard threatened them.
Billy86 wrote: » He did, and he did repeatedly. Over and over he did it. And the likes of Youtube let it slide because he made them money. Now, he is persona non grata and Patreon want nothing to do with him he will lose them money. So yeah, to answer your initial question - the irony of that puts a big smile on my face.
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » He didn't break the terms of service for that. I don't think even one company mentioned that and he was removed off all them what, years after he said it?
Billy86 wrote: » Should people be banned from a service for repeatedly and knowingly breaking the terms of that service to an extreme extent, ruining lives in the process? It's been asked multiple times now... why does nobody throwing their toys out of the pram want to answer this?
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » Alex Jones wasn't banned for Sandy Hook, he was banned for 'hate speech' / 'glorifying violence'. If he was banned for Sandy Hook I wouldn't have a problem with that if he called people to action. When it gets into the realm of calling it a hoax and his viewers go and do the stuff they did it's a little more grey because your getting into grey territory. In that case it may be less grey but it means a precedent is there and it's creeps into even more subjective territory. My main concern here is the normalisation of all these tactics. As I've said companies can do what they want but that doesn't mean we couldn't as a society spot the dangers and at the very least not applaud this crap. It's so painfully obvious where it's going.
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » I don't know how you get to a place where ye like this trend. I can't imagine anything anyone could say where I could justify this sort of stuff bar actual threats to people. What part of this do you enjoy exactly. I can't imagine someone being anti catholic or even saying the Irish are the scum of the earth all day every day so much that I want this sort of crap to happen to them. Genuinely baffled.
Chris_Heilong wrote: » I have watched him on youtube and I would not say he is spreading "Hate Speech" he is criticizing and playing the outrage card, which is needed with the political landscape is so skewed in one direction.
Billy86 wrote: » Reading that put a smile on my face, thanks. The only thing that kept from being booted from YT etc so long was the simple reason of money (clicks). Now that the stink is out in the open he's instead getting kicked off other platforms for the simple reason of money.
batgoat wrote: » You've got his employees such as Paul Joseph Watson who utilise infowars to spread hate speech about muslims. The site is filled with that too obviously. Here's some more about Jones though. All mainstream propaganda. :rolleyes:https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-jones-accused-of-sexual-harassment-bullying-at-infowars
Call Me Jimmy wrote: » And as expected we now see Mastercard forcing Patreon to remove another 'hate speaker'. So he didn't even break Patreon rules, just pressure from a payment service.
Sal Butamol wrote: » He's a clown but this censorship is insidious.
splashuum wrote: » Jones has retracted all Sandyhook comments quite some time ago. He has made multiple videos retracting same. Mainstream media makes mistakes as does Jones. I’d suggest you do your own research before making comments on media outlets. I’m also not sure where you have seen him promote racist and anti-semitic views. CNN articles maybe?
splashuum wrote: » Jones has retracted all Sandyhook comments quite some time ago.
