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The
assault on free speech
I
checked on the InfoWars site and this is what I got.
You
don’t have to LIKE them to realise this is wrong.
Alex Jones has been suspended by Twitter for 7 days for a video talking about social media censorship. Truly, monumentally, beyond stupid.
On the same day that the Infowars website was brought down by a cyber attack.
Will this madness ever end?
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Alex Jones suspended from Twitter after tweet calling to end censorship
Controversial
right-wing commentator Alex Jones has been banned from tweeting after
he posted a link to a video of himself calling on President Trump to
“take action” against tech companies censoring his content.
Infowars
Editor Paul Joseph Watson tweeted a screenshot of the notification
sent by Twitter staff to Jones. According to Twitter, a tweet by
Jones one day earlier was considered to be “targeted harassment,”
and, as a result, the Infowars host would have his access to the
social-media platform restricted for one week. Watson described the
situation as “truly, monumentally, beyond stupid.”
Alex Jones has been suspended by Twitter for 7 days for a video talking about social media censorship. Truly, monumentally, beyond stupid.
On the same day that the Infowars website was brought down by a cyber attack.
Will this madness ever end?
Twitter
To "Suspend Accounts For Trying To Evade Suspension"
14
August, 2018
Having
seemingly distracted the world, briefly, from being caught
'shadowbanning' conservatives (or should we say "using quality
filters"), by outright-banning other right-leaning individuals
(Alex Jones and Peter
van Buren forever; and Candace Owen and Ron Paul Institute's Daniel
McAdams temporarily), it
appears Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey has a cunning plan for purging the
rest of the world's naysayers from his platform.
It's
simple - according to the latest
tweet from @TwitterSafety - Twitter
will suspend you for trying not to be suspended...
Which
sounds like a dragnet or
one-strike rule.
And
rather than be careful in its suspension, it is relying on you to
claim back your account status should you feel aggrieved...
We will continue this work in the coming weeks as we identify others who are attempting to Tweet following an account suspension. If you believe your account has been suspended in error, please let us know.cards.twitter.com/cards/1kzukj/6…
One
wonders if this sudden more harsh crackdown is due
to pressure from the left after Dorsey
appeared to be getting cozier with a number of 'rightists'?
We
leave it to Nigel Farage to sum things up: writing in a scathing
op-ed last Tuesday, the former UKIP leader blasted that
"while many on the libertarian right and within the conservative
movement have their issues with Alex Jones and InfoWars, this week’s
announcement by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify represents
a concerted effort of proscription and censorship that could just as
soon see any of us confined to the dustbin of social media history."
He
concludes that the real interference in "US democracy"
comes not from Russia, but from some of its most powerful
corporations which now yield more power in some cases than the
government itself:
"This isn’t “liberal democracy” as they keep pretending. It’s autocracy."
"...for those that don’t take issue with the latest censorship of right-wingers by big social media -- unless we take a stand now, who knows where it could end."
New
terms of censorship: Facebook bans news outlets critical of US
establishment
The
Latin American news channel Telesur has been banned from Facebook for
the second time this year. And the outlet is not alone in being
sidelined by the social media giant.
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