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Stephen Colbert declares Infowars’ Alex Jones has lost his ‘war on info’

sudshr47 August 8, 2018

The Great War on Info is no more, according to Stephen Colbert, for Alex Jones has lost it.

On Tuesday night, the late night host destroyed the “extreme right-wing conspiracy theorist and bath salt spokesmodel,” who recently had his content removed from huge platforms like Apple, Google, Spotify, Facebook, and even Pinterest.

“Now if you want to see one of Jones’ signature rants, you’ll have to be in the next booth at Ruby Tuesday’s when he sees a mother breastfeeding,” Colbert said.

Colbert then went on to revive his Jones-inspired character — Brain Fight radio host Tuck Buckford — who is coincidentally dealing with very similar struggles at this moment in time. Read more…

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Twitter defends its decision to keep the Alex Jones conspiracy factory around

sudshr47 August 8, 2018

[Heavy sigh] Twitter is doing that thing again. That thing where it stands by an incoherent policy choice that is only consistent with its long historical record of inconsistency. Late Tuesday, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey took to the platform to defend his company’s choice to keep manic conspiracy theorist and hatemonger Alex Jones and his Infowars […]

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InfoWars terms of service bans ‘hateful’ users just like Facebook, YouTube, and Apple

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

InfoWars’ terms of service totally contradicts its core belief of freedom of speech.
The website, which conspiracy theorist and self-proclaimed performance artist Alex Jones claims is a legitimate news outlet, has been kicked off of Facebook, Y…

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MailChimp bans Alex Jones for hateful conduct

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

Another tech platform has closed the door on InfoWars’ Alex Jones . Mail messaging platform MailChimp first confirmed the move in a statement to US media watchdog Media Matters which said the accounts had been closed for “hateful conduct”. A MailChimp spokeswoman also confirmed it to TechCrunch via email. In a statement MailChimp said it had terminated […]

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Here’s Twitter’s position on Alex Jones (and hate-peddling anti-truthers) — hint: It’s a fudge

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

The number of tech platforms taking action against Alex Jones, the far right InfoWars conspiracy theorist and hate speech preacher, has been rising in recent weeks — with bans or partial bans including from Google, Apple and Facebook. However, as we noted earlier, Twitter is not among them. Although it has banned known hate peddlers […]

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Now even YouPorn has banned Alex Jones, but he’s still on Twitter

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

Streaming adult video site YouPorn, announced today that it has banned Alex Jones from its platform, following actions against the conspiracy-monger by tech companies including Apple, Facebook, YouTube and Spotify—but notably, not Twitter. Before you go “wtf,” there were indeed (non-porn) Alex Jones videos on YouPorn, because people often take advantage of lax copyright policies […]

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The InfoWars app is still alive and well in the App Store and Google Play

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

InfoWars host Alex Jones may no longer be able to publish content on YouTube and iTunes, but the companies haven’t removed his content entirely.

That’s because these bans so far haven’t extended to InfoWars’ mobile app, which remains available in both Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store.

Both app stores have policies prohibiting hate speech and harassment — the same reasons the companies cited for removing Jones’ podcasts and YouTube channels in the first place.

In fact, not only is the InfoWars app still available in both stores, it appears to be thriving. Read more…

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sudshr47 August 6, 2018 Startups

The removal of conspiracy enthusiast content by InfoWars brings us to an interesting and important point in the history of online discourse. The current form of Internet content distribution has made it a broadcast medium akin to television or radio. Apps distribute our cat pics, our workouts, and our YouTube rants to specific audiences of followers, […]

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YouTube removes Alex Jones, too

sudshr47 August 6, 2018

Another social media domino has fallen for Infowars. After bans this morning from Apple and Facebook, Google followed suit by terminating Alex Jones’ page for “violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines,” according to a bright red bar that now graces the page. The embattled, conspiracy peddling host’s Infowars page, which until recently boasted 2.4 million subscribers, has been […]