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JUST IN: YouTube permanently bans Alex Jones http://hill.cm/tgaAwLE
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YouTube on Monday said it had banned Alex Joness Infowars channel, following similar actions taken against the controversial right-wing conspiracy theorist by other major U.S. technology companies.
After the channel violated YouTube's policies against child endangerment and hate speech, Jones was banned for trying to circumvent the site's enforcement measures, according to a source familiar with the companys decision. The source said Jones received a 90-day moratorium on livestreaming for violating its policies and that he then tried to promote his flagship radio show on other YouTube pages, prompting a permanent ban.
When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts, a YouTube spokesperson said when asked for comment.
Jones said on Saturday that he expected the platform to delete his page. Spotify, Apple and Facebook have also taken action against him.
Facebook had faced criticism and scrutiny for allowing Jones to remain on the site, despite his promotion of conspiracy theories such as that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was staged and that survivors of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting were crisis actors.
Spotify booted Joness podcast from its platform last week, and Apple did the same on Sunday. Facebook followed suit on Monday, kicking Jones off despite remarks by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that appeared to defend Jones and other conspiracy theorists who are active on the social media platform.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)I responded to the thread this morning about him being banned on Facebook saying that YouTube needs to follow.
Glad to see they took my advice.
BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)These people need to be marginalized. When you go beyond being "entertainment" and "an act", then the private companies hosting this crap need to take action.
Initech
(100,097 posts)White supremacists, neo Nazis, and white nationalists make money from YouTube advertising. The advertisers need to be made aware of what they're sponsoring.
BumRushDaShow
(129,339 posts)where advertisers have pulled their ads - but there are still the gold companies and "Lifelocks" of the underworld that keep them propped up.
I.e., here was an article about that from back in March - https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/03/technology/youtube-ads-infowars-alex-jones/index.html
Initech
(100,097 posts)Now to kick the rest of the white nationalist scumbag off!
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)trueblue2007
(17,234 posts)HALLELUJAH !!!!!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)Back to the fringes where you belong!
klook
(12,164 posts)albeit a few years too late.
Looking forward to the day when this scumbag and his ilk are all relegated to the cosmic compost bin.
skylucy
(3,740 posts)superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Conspiracy nuts are emotional defects
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)StarryNite
(9,458 posts)Quit giving a platform to dangerous, cult leader idiots like Jones!
Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)jalan48
(13,879 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,312 posts)jalan48
(13,879 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)I can watch a youtube video with out first having to watch a short Trumpster Ad!
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)QAnon will NOT know what to do with themselves.
dembotoz
(16,824 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Alex did...many times on many platforms.
dembotoz
(16,824 posts)Generate a bunch of complaints and stuff happens
Hekate
(90,769 posts)If there's something in there you just can't live with, like basic civility and not posting hate speech, the exit is thataway.
But maybe that was not the source of your anxiety.
Rules for conduct must exist on social media, because troll swarms exist. Rage is a contagion, as are racism, homophobia, misogyny, and calls for violence. There are places online I will never go to because they tolerate hatred. And when the hatred spills over into the streets of Charlottesville they pretend to be surprised.
It's the same reason we have laws as well as freedoms in civil society.
VOX
(22,976 posts)This bastard specializes in spewing forth the worst kind of disinformation and lunatic conspiratorial fabrications. He is dangerous to American democracy and its people; and he's yet another Putin tool, who keeps calling for American civil war.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/reeling-from-flynn-deal-alex-jones-issues-civil-war-red-alertfor-15th-time-in-two-months
Just after the word...that Gen. Michael Flynn had cut a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, InfoWars issued a Red Alert warning that the removal of Trump will trigger a massive civil war.
Host Alex Jones explained that if they remove Trump after the classic Americana being promoted and détente with Christian Russia, it will cause a massive civil war.
OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)Of course, the way he's using it to hang himself and his family out to dry, maybe that's a good thing.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I don't know how that works.
ancianita
(36,130 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,291 posts)...their platform for free videos pulls this stunt!
OK, Ill keep using Chrome, and their search-engine, ever mindful that theyre harvesting and selling my online trail of breadcrumbs.
And people wonder why I havent brought a Google spying device (smart home) into my house. An eavesdropper I dont need. Especially one that comes with a pages-long EULA that most everyone else clicks through to get to free music, etc.
Sorry for the tangential tirade. Asshole Jones and his Info Whores deserve this long overdue sanction. And more.
cp
(6,649 posts)Hope it will become universal. And that's just for the shit he pulled against the families grieving their children in Newtown, despicable beyond measure. Good riddance!
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)One down.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Gothmog
(145,481 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Getting your channel deleted doesn't mean much anymore. A LOT of sovereign citizens have been kicked off YouTube; they change one letter in their channel name, reupload all the crap they had on their old channel, and they're back in business.