Alex Jones Removed From YouTube

It was about time ten years ago.

Finally, Jesus!

One good thing happened. The political propaganda machines should all be shut down, including Rush Limbaugh. Why did we ever allow these disgusting liars to have airtime? I don't get it. Are there no standards?

Exactly, r1.....

[QUOTE]It was about time ten years ago.

Nah, I think he was more of an eccentric back then rather than a nutcase.

Hurrah

I am going to leave this country. There is no free speech here.

What country, R7? You’re probably posting from Moscow.

r7. BYE Felicia!

Serves that hatemonger right.

Whining about 'censorship' in 3...2...1...

Alex Jones needs to be removed from this planet and sent to Mars.

Why do we have to allow these liars to flood our airwaves? This should not be allowed.

I wish he’d meet with an accident

He's such a fucking fat cunt. Die in a grease fire, pig Jones.

I've never heard of this guy before. What does he promote that would limit his right to free speech? Does he incite movie crowds by yelling fire and stuff like that?

Alex Jones needs to live in his own personal hell (run on a loop) where Hillary orders him, dressed up as a pizza (for kicks him OR her dressed as pizza) and then sodomizes him with a giant probe.

ITT: morons who think free speech is determined by whether a corporation like YouTube lets you upload to their site

Alex Jones, the incel whisperer

Can't he just post content from his own website?

Brilliant Man.

Alex Jones is free to spew whatever vitriol he wants, just not on YouTube. Duh.

Can't he just stand on a corner and scream shit like a normal loon?

R13 Heil Hitler

You don't have to like Alex Jones to understand what the implications of banning free speech entails. Gays will only begin to care once their porn sites begin shutting down or tranny videos on Youtube are removed.

R16, he said the parents of the kids who were murdered at Sandy Hook were liars and their kids weren’t really dead. He said it was all a hoax and the parents were “crisis actors.” Some of these parents have been so terrorized by threats from his rabid fans that they had to sell their houses and go into hiding because they were in fear for their lives. For years.

Other conspiracy theories from Jones: that various other mass shootings are actually false flag operations acted out by crisis actors. None of the people are actually dead, and the survivors are all liars.

Pizzagate, claiming a pizza parlor was a haven for pedophiles that keep children locked in the basement. A Jones fan entered the pizza parlor carrying an automatic rifle to “rescue” the children allegedly in the basement. There is no basement.

This guy passed the “shouting fire in a crowded theater” standard a long time ago.

There is no constitutional right to post videos on YouTube. The First Amendment applies to THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT STOP YOU FROM SPEAKING. Not YouTube or Facebook. THE GOVERNMENT.

Bye bye 1st Amendment.

R16, no one is limiting his right to free speech. If he wants to spread lies, he is perfectly free to do so - all he has to do is start his own video-sharing platform.

Bye bye Russian trolls who hate America and don’t know or care what the First Amendment says.

R24, would it be OK with you if someone posted YouTube videos about you being a pedophile? Would you fight any attempts to have them removed?

Let's all agree that anyone using the First Amendment argument should be put on ignore on principle. I mean, here at Datalounge you can't shoot people, yet.

This thread is a perfect way to tell who is a Russian troll. Thanks for outing yourself Boris.

"A Facebook spokesperson said: “More content from the same pages has been reported to us – upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanising language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.”

And it is ok to have sites which attack women, gay men/lesbians? And Christians and Jews?

If Jones feels his First Amendment tights are being violated because a private company has disallowed him from using its property, he should sue.

That would be highly entertaining.

R27 Then Antifa and Farrakhan should also find their own platforms to promote civil unrest and outright violence.

It's all fine and dandy now but, as we saw with James Gunn, don't be surprised when the other side uses the same strategy to silence people whose views they disagree with. Jones is a nut. No one takes him seriously. YouTube should have left the videos up and just put "he's a nut" tag underneath his videos similar to what they do with videos funded by governments.

Why should certain people be allowed to violate YouTube’s terms of service?

I used to think that gay men were superior in intelligence, but DL proves the opposite.

[quote]If Jones feels his First Amendment tights are being violated

I wouldn't violate Alex under any circumstance, tights or no tights

This happens because of corporate interest. Good luck for the Deplorables and Russian Trolls trying to manipulate corporate interest with their obvious fake social media accounts. This isn't 2016 anymore.

Oh bullshit. No one is infringing on his free speech. He can get his own channel and say what he wants. Free speech does have limits. He was pushing dangerous, outrageous lies and conspiracies.

We are under attack from outside and within. Fuck these liars.

I bet there's a link to Russian money and Jones that will be revealed by Mueller.

"They trust me, the dumb fucks."

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Alex Jones is a Right Wing pundit. OF COURSE someone is paying him to do that. And, according to reports, it pays pretty well to play a right wing conspiracy nutcase.

R41: Maybe, maybe not, but Infowars has always been a relentless cheerleader for the Putin régime.

A lot of conspiracy theorists are pro-Russia for some reason. Propably a "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" sort of thing.

Doesn’t he mostly use his frothing rants to sell “male vitality” supplements?

And he does his ranting all the while laughing at the idiots who believe his bullshit. He is playing them for idiots and laughing all the way to the bank.

Free speech is not hate speech and outright lies.

"No one takes him seriously"

Except the people who have threatened and harassed the Sandy Hook parents and others whom Jones lied about:

In the five years since Noah Pozner was killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., death threats and online harassment have forced his parents, Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, to relocate seven times. They now live in a high-security community hundreds of miles from where their 6-year-old is buried.

“I would love to go see my son’s grave and I don’t get to do that, but we made the right decision,” Ms. De La Rosa said in a recent interview. Each time they have moved, online fabulists stalking the family have published their whereabouts.

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The day after the Pozner case, in the same courthouse, is a hearing in a separate defamation case against Mr. Jones brought by Marcel Fontaine, who was falsely identified on Infowars’ website as the gunman in the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in February. Mr. Fontaine, who lives in Massachusetts, has never visited Florida.

Free speech is not free of the consequences of that speech. This fat, racist fuck being thrown off Youtube and other platforms is the consequence Mr. Jones has created for himself. He can say whatever he wants, the government's not stopping him. At the same time, Youtube and other social media companies are under no obligation to provide Jones with access to their platforms.

Also, FYI Russian trolls, "free speech" does not include defamation. That's well-settled US law, no matter what your US constitution basics for online trolling manual tells you.

At this point free speech is reduced to being a dog whistle for the Deplorables and Russian Trolls.

[quote][R24], would it be OK with you if someone posted YouTube videos about you being a pedophile? Would you fight any attempts to have them removed?

R29, the truth is a defense against libel.

So that particular YouTuber would be fine.

The deplorables only worship the First Amendment when it suits them. Ask me how I know.

The deplorables love Russia so much they need to head on over there. See how far their guns and free speech get them.

Fuck you R16...free speech does not include vicious lies...day after day Jones and his hate speech. We, as Americans should have never allowed it.

Reality and the truth have been under attack for years now. Cheeto and his “fake news” BS. You know that fat bastard watches Alex Jones. I hope this is the start of a pushback against propaganda from the right.

Merely a defence

No guarantee of an exoneration

It's a slippery slope and they are more than a bit hypocritical in its execution. For example, Apple removes Alex Jones podcasts but still sells Mein Kampf by Adolpf Hitler.

Hitler is dead. He can't profit from those sales

“Mein Kampf” lays out Hitler’s ideology and is an important piece in understanding his beliefs which led to his destructive and sick policies. It should also serve as a reminder to the world to fight against the rise of the far right. “Mein Kampf” is an important piece of history.

Alex Jones is just a worthless piece of steaming feces. You can’t compare his persona to a book.

Do you not get it? Mein Kampf can be used to educate the most ignorant among us. It is proof of absolute evil. Alex Jones is a propagandist who uses lies and hate speech to steer weak brains into evil deeds. Why do we have to allow these liars to spew their absolute filth, every day?

Hitler's Mein Kampf is a roadmap to dictatorship (not that knowing this helped to prevent Trump and his lowest common denominator hate speech rethoric). Alex Jones is a snake oil salesman, as in selling shit to his audience.

In any case, saying Alex Jones is entitled to use YouTube to say whatever he wants is like saying Hitler was entitled to have “Mein Kampf” published by Simon & Schuster.

The right-wing must die!

I think it’s wonderful. They’ve exploited the 1st Amendment for way too long. Hate speech is not free speech. That hag Coulter deserves to be locked up for inciting hatred.

[QUOTE]For example, Apple removes Alex Jones podcasts but still sells Mein Kampf by Adolpf Hitler.

Bullshit analogy.

Is anyone forcing Apple to distribute “Mein Kampf”?

No?

Then kindly STFU about “Mein Kampf”.

Obvious fake troll @ r66 is obvious.

Block & F&F.

[quote] I am going to leave this country.

Promise??

What is this "free speech" shit?

Define "free speech."

Finally! This guy was promoting violence by Domestic terrorists.

One could argue that Jones himself is a terrorist.

The press is twisting itself into knots fretting about "censorship" by the tech platforms -- as if they don't have their own terms of service. The press should turn it's attention to things that matter.

There's no censorship. He's free to publish his lies elsewhere.

I wonder who can be blamed for this?

Isnt it ironic that the more Cheeto has been filling the airwaves with racist, hateful shit and conspiracy theories, the more assholes like Alex Jones and the other flamboyant queen who's name sounds like Filo with an M have been taken to the wood shed? Not that I am complaining. More of like a silver lining.

He was the inspiration for a similar type of character on Homeland. Is AJ as phoney as the H character by spouting off nonsense not even he believes?

"Jones is a nut. No one takes him seriously. "

That's bullshit. He wouldn't do it if he didn't make money off it and he can't make money without people who take him seriously.

Freedom of speech does not mean you can lie and slander people without consequences.

This asshole needs to be sued by everyone he's slandered. One big class action suit to show him being fraud doesn't pay.

Because unfortunately, I bet he's still going to shill his bullshit products to the gullible and he doesn't give a shit who it harms.

It bears being viewed again. What a chimp!

In the time before YouTube, Facebook, Spotify and the rest, crackpots like Jones were on the fringe and no one took them seriously. And newspapers were under no obligation to push the toxic sludge of these freaks and most didn't. No one screamed about censorship then since, well, there wasn't any. Jones could still rant and rave outside the New York City bus terminal or publish his own paper or flyers if he wanted.

Unfortunately, he's still on Twitter.

Twitter won't do anything to him. If they did, they'd finally have to address the Trump issue.

The hypocrisy is hilarious. Just look at the utterly hateful comments directed towards Alex Jones on this thread. What makes you think your hurtful comments about his personal appearance and wishing him dead etc are ANY different to the supposedly hateful slander he spouts?

WAKE UP AND LOOK IN THE MIRROR YOU HYPOCRITES!

You reap what you sow R84. Jones put all that hateful shit out there, DL is just a mirror.

I felt he needed to go when he started the whole "Newton tragedy was faked: crisis actors were used" thing.

It's one thing to be a 9/11 truther. It is a whole other thing to maintain that those children weren't slaughtered and the parents were all actors.

If You Tube would take all the conspiracy theory videos off their platform it would soon raise the IQs of certain groups by 10 points at least. But I don't expect that to happen. There is just too much money it for YT.

And tell me what "hateful shit" Alex apparently put out there R85? Be clear about it too.

And are you actually admitting that you're allowed to be horrendously hateful and hurtful towards someone because they were? Really?! Are you 12 years old? I thought the left were supposed to be mature and above such pettiness

[quote]What makes you think your hurtful comments about his personal appearance and wishing him dead etc are ANY different to the supposedly hateful slander he spouts?

It's not slander if its true. He is pretty much as described.

I don’t think any posts on DL have caused the families of Parkland victims to reiceive death threats or having to move multiple times. But R84 is not smart enough to figure that one out, because he believes in lizard people.

R84/87 is so deep, man, it's like a hypocrisy landmine on the walkway of life. The profunditude is profound, man.

Dumb, crazy, lying, fat fuck Alex Jones is lucky to have you as a friend, R84/87.

[quote]And tell me what "hateful shit" Alex apparently put out there [R85]? Be clear about it too.

See post R25.

R87 = Filo with an M

There is SO much murderous hatred in the left these days, it genuinely scares me. And group think. People terrified to make up their own minds and desperate to be seen to be championing the right causes, saying the right things. This thread is a perfect example. I genuinely cannot believe how nasty people have been towards Alex, and how ok they are with their language.

You are the proof that he is needed.

The internet has ruined life as we knew it. It's a great tool, but sadly we humans can't have nice things without turning them to shit. We have the likes of Twitter and Facebook to thank for giving the saddest losers on the planet a platform to rally even sadder losers, from mug-cradling mum-bores to the monstrosity currently resting his fat ass in the White House.

*to receive*

R87 you thought wrong, shithead. We've learned from your kind.

You can listen to the hoarse, screeching lies of "Alex"but not withstand criticism of same R93? Isn't it group think that "Alex" encourages in his diatribes?The lies that encouraged the murderous hatred toward grieving parents forced by subsequent death threats to relocate? You can stomach that, but criticizing him is just too much for your delicate constitution? To the fainting couch with you!

[quote]I genuinely cannot believe how nasty people have been towards Alex, and how ok they are with their language

Pot meet Kettle

Sandy Hook WAS a hoax. Wake the fuck up sheep

There is NOTHING "progressive" about the left. Nothing. Leftists are the new fascists. Mark those words

Go to sleep moron R99

Everyone in American has the right to free speech. You DO NOT have to right to free broadcasting on social media. Go stand on the corner with a bull horn if you want, no one is stopping you.

OK Troll R99, If Sandy Hook was fake, prove it? Like they would in court of law, with facts, not blogs or video conspiracy sites. If all those parents were actors, show me some of their other work as actors. Im waiting.

bitch should be in jail for calling for the death of Robert mueller.

jones is a dangerous fuk!!!!

The god dam nerve to say them innocent babys death was faked.

May he burn in the deepest darkest hell that the lord has created for hateful fuks.

The truth of the matter is, conspiracy theorist and their ilk are generally people who missed the boat in life. Life didn't go as planned. They don't understand how the world is doing better than they are so they have to invent an alternative reason why they are in such a mess and so fucked up. If someone else came up with a conspiracy that works just as well. Doesn't even have to be one that is well thought, anything but the truth will suffice.

I'll be happy with him being broke and gibbering in the streets.

Excuse me, but why EXACTLY are drag queens reading to small children? And being photographed doing it. And telling the world they are doing it. What's the agenda?

R108, you actually have to have an agenda to read a book to a child? Why does it matter if it’s a drag queen or a clown?

[quote]Alex Jones Removed From YouTube

I never understood how they fit him in there in the first place.

R107, well, he's already gibbering, so there's that.

I think R93 is just aiming for some chuckles from the responses to its spewings.

There is no such thing as true freedom of speech, and there shouldn't be. Just as it it's not legal to walk into a crowded theater and yell "FIRE" causing a stampede that injures or kills people, it should not be legal for some scumbag like Alex Jones to tell and promote complete lies and goad halfwits into doing things to hurt other people.

People are deliberately kept stupid to fall for pundits like Alex Jones.

Did the judge in the TX lawsuit rule on the defense's request to toss out the case? Haven't seen anything on that, and pray that doesn't happen.

Not yet R114. Per the link at 50, he's also asking for the families to pay him $100,000 in costs.

I also want to know why he can't just post content to his own site. Surely it's not too difficult to embed video there instead of using YouTube's services.

Leftist speech police is not new. "Liberal" book burners are clear and present danger. DL WAKE UP!

[QUOTE]I also want to know why he can't just post content to his own site. Surely it's not too difficult to embed video there instead of using YouTube's services.

He wanted to pollute our consciousness as much as possible, and that was best done through YouTube where he had the greatest reach.

This just sets a dangerous precedent.

Yes, social media is where you can find new audience members. Without that he has to work extra hard to hold on to his fans, because he ain't getting new ones.

Alex jones returned to his humble roots as a circus act

He is live on his website now. Hes pushing a free app to listen to his bullshit loaded with his snake oil commercials.

I tried to post a comment and it was not even allowed through. They were monitoring them and only posting Pro-Alex bullshit. Total free speech champions over there...

He's against Q now, right?

BORING!

You're all the same Hillabottom shriekers that dutifully take in your daily doses of lies from ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN..are there any others? Ah yes..Daily Kos, HuffPo, Jezebel, Buzzfeed......

The Rusian troll shit is SO tired, Izzy. come up with something else, would'ya?

Just as I predicted, banning stuff never works. It only makes things more popular and gives them free publicity. The Infowars app is now #4 on Apple's app store and #11 on Google's app store.

Well, duh. Crazy fans do crazy shit. Just because you kick someone like Alex Jones out of social media doesn't mean that his idiot fanbase move on immediately. The important part is that he's shunned to the sidelines and has to fear someone new and fresh is replacing him on social media and his fans will abandon him for the new, shiny star in conservative tin-hat realm.

Give it time, R127, and they’ll ban those, too.

Are we now to expect free speech on Google? That Google is obliged by the constitution to guarantee free speech?

Go ahead, make laugh.

Wish Twitter did the same. People should lobby them.

It's like banning crazy people from a mall. Totally constitutional. Private platform. If they want free speech, get the government to create a public .gov forum.

Yeah they need to ban the app.

I had to read Mein Kampf in college for a Political Science course called 'Propaganda'. I bought it at the college bookstore.

If you ban a book you make it much more interesting and intriguing to people. That's particularly so in the internet age where you cannot really suppress things effectively. It seems like combating bad speech and lies with good speech and truth would be the way to go.

But, YouTube is a private entity. They can ban whatever the fuck they want and should ban people like Alex Jones.

I wonder what would happen if Twitter booted Agent Orange off from his favorite platform. He might have conniptions and die on the toilet.

R136 I don't think Twitter will ever get rid of Trump because it would crash the stock. Jack cares about $$$ first and foremost.

You people are insane. #1) there goes your net neutrality stance. How is the left backing these monopolies who censor citizens, again? #2) you just made Jones a martyr. Ever hear of the Streisand Effect? #3) Now that his mostly nonsense is forced off the monopolies, you’re gonna see the rise of sites and apps that will serve the Alex Jones audience. He will probably tent pole a lot of far right and far left shit, as well as anyone interested in free speech. So, again, you shot yorself in the foot. These companies are clearly just appeasing the mainstream media so they can look like they tried to protect the midterms and do a favor for the mainstream media. But, because retarded far lefties: it will BACKFIRE. I swear, you want Trump to just become a legit dictator already. That’s how much you want him re-elected. Do you people have orange daddy issues??

RE: Jones. Just because you like to see what the crazy lady on the street is shouting about while you eat your lunch on your work break, doesn’t mean you want the crazy lady to be your CEO. This is the best thing that could have ever happened to Alex Jones. He’s not even anti-Semitic like Louis Farrakhan but Farrakhan gets a pass why?

Anything is possible r137.

LOL at R138 getting all bothered by something that is obviously a FALSE FLAG!

Alex Jones admitted in court that he did not believe all the lies he spews on his show. It all for ratings and money.

R141, that makes it even worse.

The parents of the Parkland shooting should be able to get the last penny out of him with never ending defamation lawsuits and an excellent lawyer.

Are there any legal types here who can speculate about the possible outcome of the Newtown families' lawsuit against Jones? The harassment they experienced was unreal and it was incited by InfoWars. FFS, he even posted a map with directions to the Posner home. His lawyers are arguing this as a First Amendment case which seems slippery. What he did was tantamount to shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater. Given what the families experience, it seems like an incitement to domestic terrorism.

Look, don't act surprised if you send out hate and get kicked in the nuts. But then haters hate and their well deserved karma fuels their hate further.

Avoid haters as much as possible. Don't invite them into your home (including via internet, TV, etc.). They'll just try their best to ruin your day.

The hateful lies of Alex Jones are nothing more than hate speech, always and forever, racist. R87 is a fool, a moron, an idiot who would probably watch a murder and then decide they really did not know what happened, so THEY can't judge. These are the type of people who decided Hitler should be in power.

I'm more concerned about NYTimes hiring openly bigoted woman to editorial board. Compared Europeans to dogs. Comparing a human being to an animal is gateway to Nazi genocide propaganda. She is a sick racist and NYTimes is sick to hire her. Sad day. The grey lady is a bigot.

Go start a thread bout her then R146

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Let conservatives start a social media site starring Alex Jones, Milo, Anne Coulter, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, etc. No one is stopping them.

I hope twitter, Facebook, and Google take down NYTimes. So sick they hire such a bigot comparing human beings to dogs. Social media needs to cut out open hate groups!