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I don’t click very often at InfoWars, which is accessible on
several aggregator sites [as of this posting, the website is still up, including reports of the censorship]. But that’s not the point. Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection has a scary report “based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that
violate our abusive behavior policy”:
The deplatforming of Alex Jones by
social media sites should disturb you whether you are a fan or not. I’ve never
been a fan of Jones or his Infowars site. I’ve never gotten past the time Jones
led an angry mob against Michelle Malkin in 2008. Still, if this can be done to
him it can be done to anyone.
Twitter was the last
holdout of the Jones purge, but announced their decision yesterday.
Eli
Blumenthal writes at USA Today:
Twitter bans conspiracy
theorist Alex Jones, Infowars from social network for violating ‘abusive
behavior’ policy
Alex Jones
has been kicked off of Twitter.
The
controversial founder of conspiracy website Infowars was banned from the social
network Thursday afternoon. Both Jones’ personal account and that of his
website were removed by Twitter.
“Today, we
permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,”
Twitter’s official Safety account tweeted. “We took this action based on new
reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior
policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations.”
This strikes me as a violation of Jones’s First Amendment
rights. As the headline says, “who’s next?” Read the rest of the Legal
Insurrection account here.
UPDATE at 2:10PM
via PJ Media: Alex Jones: "I’m the 'Beta Test' for Tech Companies to Start
Censoring Conservatives."
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