Alex Jones Permanently Banned From Facebook, iTunes, And Youtube
Complete assault on free speech from tech giants
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In what seems to be a complete assault on free speech, radio host Alex Jones, and his flagship site Infowars has been permanently banned from Facebook, iTunes, Youtube, and Spotify.
The Alex Jones Youtube channel, which had 2.4 million followers, was terminated on Monday for "violating YouTube's Community Guidelines."
Within 12 hours, Facebook also removed four official Alex Jones and Infowars pages for "violating community guidelines" with alleged "hate speech."
It's not just Infowars!
In June, Neon Nettle's own Facebook page, with over 550,000 followers, was permenalty banned from Facebook.
We are seeing an attack on free speech.
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According to ZH: Earlier Monday we reported that Apple had completely removed five of Infowars' six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcast apps under their hate speech guidelines, reports BuzzFeed News - including the daily Alex Jones podcast and the show "War Room" - in "one of the largest enforcement actions intended to curb conspiratorial news content by a technology company to date."
Meanwhile, according to Bloomberg, Facebook removed the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page, which they said:
“have been unpublished for repeated violations of community standards and accumulating too many strikes."
Facebook said it reviewed content “glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies”
Infowars and Alex Jones YouTube channel terminated pic.twitter.com/lVYlP70AgG
— Joe Biggs (@Rambobiggs) August 6, 2018
The Alex Jones Channel has been permanently DELETED by YouTube.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
This is a coordinated PURGE.
This is political censorship. pic.twitter.com/gyYiSSYFwI
Big Tech is engaging in election meddling and COLLUSION.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Apple, Facebook, Spotify, YouTube (Google) all banned Infowars within 12 hours of each other.
This is unprecedented.
This is political warfare.https://t.co/7LeDltv51y
When CNN was lobbying to have @infowars banned from Facebook, everyone ignored it.
— Ashton Whitty✨ (@ashtonbirdie) August 6, 2018
Within the past 12 hours Info Wars has been taken off Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and YouTube.
No matter your opinion on Info Wars, this is an attack on free speech for EVERYONE.
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Apple's decision is the latest in a string of technology companies which have taken action against Jones and Infowars, which he founded 19 years ago in 1999.
Last month, YouTube and Facebook each pulled down four videos by Jones and Infowars. Facebook suspended Jones for 30 days, while YouTube hit the news outlet with a "strike."
Meanwhile, Spotify and the podcast app Stitcher followed suit, removing specific episodes of Jones' show they deemed to contain hateful content.
Apple's decision comes on the heels of liberal outrage directed at Jones and his network, most recently spearheaded by online activists Sleeping Giants - which has lobbied for tech platforms in general to cut all ties with Jones; condemning Apple last week for their reluctance.
