Alex Jones content removed from Facebook, Youtube, Apple

Hal3000 wrote: »

Ah yes, and Facebook are the sane ones...

A glue sniffing paranoid schizophrenic is Confucius compared to Alex Jones.

yourdeadwright

Im sure Apple, Facebook and all the platforms are delighted that its always Alex Jones name that is mentioned first when people write about people having there platform taken away ,

He is such a lunatic and talks such nonsens people don't bother reading the rest of the story ,but there are others who are far more relevant and intelligent who have been taken off and people don't realise because they stop reading after they see Alex Jones's name ,

pauldla

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Yeah but that is different because infowars is a private company and they should be able to say who can post on their website and the likes of FB, YT et al are private comp... oh right, i see what you mean.

Mr Watson himself seems undecided on the matter.

Govt regulation bad!

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/565821753252122624

Govt regulation necessary!

https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/922806807231434752

It's worth reading his profile on Rationalwiki. As I said, it sure beats having a day job.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Watson

PistolsAtDawn

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Yes it is. When you have rules against hate speech, and you allow his sh1t you are saying it is not hate speech, that it is valid discourse.

Hate speech, misogynist, virtue-signalling.... can we just stop with these bullsh!t labels which have imported from the American media and be ourselves for once.

ogsjw

PistolsAtDawn wrote: »

Hate speech, misogynist, virtue-signalling.... can we just stop with these bullsh!t labels which have imported from the American media and be ourselves for once.

I am DUMBFOUNDED that you think 'hate speech' is a buzzword created by the 'American Media'.

The Irish Education System has failed so, so many people.

PistolsAtDawn

ogsjw wrote: »

I am DUMBFOUNDED that you think 'hate speech' is a buzzword created by the 'American Media'.

The Irish Education System has failed so, so many people.

Admittedly, I should probably have used another term, but it's early and this is an internet forum so I don't really care.

Anyway, all I know is that I know nothing.

My gut feeling is; you have yet to attain this level of enlightenment.

Have a good day you condescending d!ckhead.

batgoat

splashuum wrote: »

I could edit your wiki “source” right now to suggest PJW is the devil himself....

Are you saying it's inaccurate in relation to what Jones does?

Sephiroth_dude

Mod

Keep it Civil, one and only warning.

Not only in Jones banned, but anyone who shares anything by him will be banned too..

very very worrying. China/North Korea level stuff.

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Not only in Jones banned, but anyone who shares anything by him will be banned too..

very very worrying. China/North Korea level stuff.

But their Alex Jones fans, they can crawl into some cess pit like 8chan and hang out with the qunts. The internet is bad enough.

Ipso wrote: »

But their Alex Jones fans, they can crawl into some cess pit like 8chan and hang out with the qunts. The internet is bad enough.

Its the principle as I'm sure you know. If you don't think the day will soon come where you're banned for criticising some Govt policy or other then you're very naive.

McCarthyism is alive and well.

Critics of the left have always maintained that under the veneer of the lefts social concern lay tyranny...and here we are.

Patty Hearst wrote: »

McCarthyism is alive and well.

Critics of the left have always maintained that under the veneer of the lefts social concern lay tyranny...and here we are.

But you’re ok with Infowars terms of service that has the same thing? Or are you one of those people who take him seriously?

Seanachai

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Its the principle as I'm sure you know. If you don't think the day will soon come where you're banned for criticising some Govt policy or other then you're very naive.

I don't know why people that are so eager for others to be banned don't consider that their views may one day put them under the microscope.

is_that_so

Seanachai wrote: »

I don't know why people that are so eager for others to be banned don't consider that their views may one day put them under the microscope.

Most of us are harmless, despite how edgy we think ourselves, so little danger of that unless you're into tinfoil hats!

Ipso wrote: »

But you’re ok with Infowars terms of service that has the same thing? Or are you one of those people who take him seriously?

Infowars is not a social media company, in the same way that RTE isn't.

You can play with semantics all you like..until the day comes where you are banned or 'unpersoned' for expressing an opinion. Then you might wake up.

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Infowars is not a social media company, in the same way that RTE isn't.

You can play with semantics all you like..until the day comes where you are banned or 'unreasoned' for expressing an opinion. Then you might wake up.

Infowars is different alright. So it’s censorship for me but not for thee.

Seanachai wrote: »

I don't know why people that are so eager for others to be banned don't consider that their views may one day put them under the microscope.

The difference between Jones and someone with a political opinion is that Jones was deliberately spreading lies about real people that got them harassed by his thick followers. He is currently being sued for this.

If I did that on boards I'd be rightly banned.

That's all this is. It's a gobshíte being banned off a social media platform for being a díck. It's not some Orwellian censorship no matter how much Jones, his followers and the permanently gullible would like to spin it that way.

Cienciano

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Not only in Jones banned, but anyone who shares anything by him will be banned too..

very very worrying. China/North Korea level stuff.

The exact opposite of North Korea. NK is the government telling people what they can and can't say. In the capitalist society the likes of facebook and twitter banning hate speech because it's bad for their bottom line. If you want government intervention to private companies like Twitter, telling them what they have to delete or not delete, then you got a situation like NK.

The irony is people like PJW want less government intervention. But like most conservatives, they want more rights for people like them, less rights for everyone else. When things don't go their way they toys are thrown out of their pram.

Sonics2k

splashuum wrote: »

Another host of people removed from Facebook and Instagram all at once. Paul Joseph Watson being amongst them. PJW reports of facts and has never incited any hate/violence. But rest be assured you’ll still have people in here celebrating this mass censorship.

Yeah, no.

PJW has made a career, much like Alex Jones, of distorting truths and facts to further push his own views and sell products.

Funnily enough, many years ago I did actually like a few things he had to say, but when you compare this to the absolute lies and nonsense he has already spread you really see what kind of person he is. Hell, they even altered his set for Youtube to give it a more "independant" and "home-made" feel to it.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/05/infowars-paul-joseph-watson-can-t-get-anything-right/215506#photoshop

Keep in mind that Infowars is a business. It's a tool that Alex Jones and others have used to make money and in some cases get crazy rich. By all means, be sceptical of mainstream media, but you should absolutely not trust PJW or InfoWars, just because they happen to say some things you agree with.

Ipso wrote: »

Infowars is different alright. So it’s censorship for me but not for thee.

Facebook also has terms of service, PJW was banned even though he has not violated the terms of service.

He was banned for his political opinions thats the difference

ohnonotgmail

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Facebook also has terms of service, PJW was banned even though he has not violated the terms of service.

He was banned for his political opinions thats the difference

Do you have a link to that?

Patty Hearst wrote: »

Infowars is not a social media company, in the same way that RTE isn't.

You can play with semantics all you like..until the day comes where you are banned or 'unpersoned' for expressing an opinion. Then you might wake up.

Expressing an opinion doesn't seem to be a problem. The likes of Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro aren't at risk of being booted off because they aren't slandering people on the platforms that they use.

Facebook has every right to ban those who use their platform to harass the parents of children killed in a mass shooting.

Lets not forget here that the far-left anti-semite, Louis Farrakhan was also booted off so it's not like this banning was exclusive to the right-wing cnuts.

Sonics2k wrote: »

Yeah, no.

PJW has made a career, much like Alex Jones, of distorting truths and facts to further push his own views and sell products.

Funnily enough, many years ago I did actually like a few things he had to say, but when you compare this to the absolute lies and nonsense he has already spread you really see what kind of person he is. Hell, they even altered his set for Youtube to give it a more "independant" and "home-made" feel to it.

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/06/05/infowars-paul-joseph-watson-can-t-get-anything-right/215506#photoshop

Keep in mind that Infowars is a business. It's a tool that Alex Jones and others have used to make money and in some cases get crazy rich. By all means, be sceptical of mainstream media, but you should absolutely not trust PJW or InfoWars, just because they happen to say some things you agree with.

RTE and much of the Irish media have spent the last two years telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia..which turned out to be completely false and and outright lies.

Should they be banned from Facebook too?

stefanovich

Patty Hearst wrote: »

RTE and much of the Irish media have spent the last two years telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia..which turned out to be completely false and and outright lies.

Should they be banned from Facebook too?

RTE is unbelievably biased in both their Brexit coverage and also coverage of Donald Trump.

Sonics2k

Patty Hearst wrote: »

RTE and much of the Irish media have spent the last two years telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia..which turned out to be completely false and and outright lies.

Should they be banned from Facebook too?

I like how you instantly believe I support PJW or Alex Jones being banned from Facebook based on my last post, about something else entirely while -also- ignoring my comments on mainstream media.

Well done.

Patty Hearst wrote: »

RTE and much of the Irish media have spent the last two years telling us that Donald Trump colluded with Russia..which turned out to be completely false and and outright lies.

Should they be banned from Facebook too?

When did they say that? They reported that he was being investigated for it, which he was, but I don't recall RTÉ taking the position that Trump colluded with Russia.

Sonics2k wrote: »

I like how you instantly believe I support PJW or Alex Jones being banned from Facebook based on my last post, about something else entirely.

Apologies if I misread you.