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Alex Jones content removed from Facebook, Youtube, Apple

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  • #1022
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Hal3000 wrote: »
    Ah yes, and Facebook are the sane ones...

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


  • #1023
    yourdeadwright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,950 ✭✭✭✭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 ,


  • #1024
    pauldla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭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


  • #1025
    PistolsAtDawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭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.


  • #1026
    ogsjw
    Site Banned Posts: 328 ✭✭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.


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  • #1027
    PistolsAtDawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭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.


  • #1028
    batgoat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭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?


  • #1029
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 81,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Mod

    Keep it Civil, one and only warning.


  • #1030
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


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

    very very worrying. China/North Korea level stuff.


  • #1031
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    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.


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  • #1032
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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.


  • #1033
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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.


  • #1034
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    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?


  • #1035
    Seanachai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭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.


  • #1036
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #1037
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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.


  • #1038
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    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.


  • #1039
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    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.


  • #1040
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,135 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #1041
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #1042
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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


  • #1043
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,931 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #1044
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    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.


  • #1045
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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?


  • #1046
    stefanovich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,490 ✭✭✭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.


  • #1047
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭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.


  • #1048
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    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.


  • #1049
    Patty Hearst
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭Patty Hearst


    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.


  • #1050
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,237 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    stefanovich wrote: »
    RTE is unbelievably biased in both their Brexit coverage and also coverage of Donald Trump.

    That's because it's genuinely difficult to polish turds. Even Brexit and Trump friendly media find it very hard to spin those shítshows as something positive.


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  • #1051
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    stefanovich wrote: »
    RTE is unbelievably biased in both their Brexit coverage and also coverage of Donald Trump.
    How can anyone be biased about the Brexit mess?


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