First they came for Alex Jones, then...

[FlyingHunter]

From "The Burning Platform", https://www.theburningplatform.com

I’ve never been a huge fan of Alex Jones. He always seemed a little unhinged to me. But who cares? He had the right to his free speech and was able to attract millions of followers to his website and as viewers of his videos. I disagree with far more people than I agree with, but that doesn’t mean I think they should be silenced.

The First Amendment means something to me. It means nothing to the corporate media conglomerates supporting the agenda of the Deep State. They will use and are using their monopoly control over media outlets to silence the opposition.

And from Vox.com:

To be clear, Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple are all private companies, and legally have the right to ban any entity from their platforms, including Jones. As Marissa Lang wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle in August 2016:

As private companies, social networks are not required to adhere to the First Amendment. They set their own rules and retain the right to moderate content, routinely screening it for instances of gratuitous violence, harassment, profanity and other offensive material.

And from me:

We need an media representative platform that values freedom of expression/thought, to compete with the likes of Google/FB etc...The scale and barriers to entry would be considerable, yet, these web based entities are in many ways the equivalent of the founding fathers printing press.

And from George Orwell:

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

[_Stormin_]

As much as I am not a fan of the censoring of free speech... Their platform, their rules.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

As much as I am not a fan of the censoring of free speech... Their platform, their rules.

Nope. That ended in the 70s. Open for business, means open for business. "I don't like your kind" went out with big bush in porn.


If the Apple wants to say that it violates their religious beliefs, let's see that court case.

And no one finds it interesting that all three are acting in unison? Almost like they want to make sure that he doesn't have a platform to fight back on.

I don't like Alex Jones, but you have to realize that to about 60% of the country Rush Limbaugh looks the same and to 40% even Ben Shapiro should be off the air.

And it isn't like this is happening in a vacuum. Look at NYS going after the NRA.

Look at Twitter.

Look at YouTube.

If you can't have access to Youtube, podcasts, twitter and Facebook- what do you have access to?

And in the MSM lying about you and your cause and where does that leave you?

You have to buy (from them) all your media, while they get to set the agenda and put their side out there for free.

Yep, that's a plan for a stable democracy.

[OH58D]

I thought this was fill in the blank....

"First they came for Alex Jones, then...they came to the homes of gun owning, traditional Conservatives and we killed every last one of that Commie scum".

That's my feel good statement of the day; not PC, but my personal feelings at this point in my life. Too violent? Can't help it. I'm an imperfect person.

[vicious_cb]

As much as I am not a fan of the censoring of free speech... Their platform, their rules.

Wrong, if you think this you probably have no idea how much reach youtube/FB/twitter or all the major social media outlets have.

These major outlets are basically the modern printing press in terms of being able to disseminate information.

[Moose-Knuckle]

. . .you probably have no idea how much reach youtube/FB/twitter or all the major social media outlets have.

These major outlets are basically the modern printing press in terms of being able to disseminate information.

Truth.

There is a book entitled The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns that goes into the science of political campaigns and the political power of data. During the 2012 election the DNC kicked the GOPs ass with a secret weapon of their's a think tank formed in 2007 called The Analyst Institute that data mined voters info.

Fast forward to today and social media is the preeminent vehicle for the mass distribution of information.

THIS is the slippery slope that we’re headed down. THIS is why FB and Twit need to be regulated like a public utility. As soon as you allow free speech to be stifled, it will not have any ends.

Slippery slope indeed. Alex Jones was not the first by a long shot, Twitter permanently banned Milo Yiannopoulos over two years ago, countless smaller pages / accounts have been removed from FB and other social media outlets over the last several years.

This isn't going to stop . . .

Hate speech sucks, but The left has finally figured out that they need to get the first amendment before they can get the second. They used to think they’d get the second first, but that didn’t work well. They are adapting.

The left controls the language, hate speech is whatever they deem it to be. It's a made up term used to intimidate, discredit, and silence those who blaspheme against left wing orthodoxy.

[morbidbattlecry]

As much as I am not a fan of the censoring of free speech... Their platform, their rules.

If only this thread had ended here.

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[Det-Sog]

If only this thread had ended here.

If only it was that simple. It is not.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

If only this thread had ended here.

If only it was that simple. It is not.

It most definitely isn’t simple. Trump can’t block people on Twitter on 1A grounds, but they just lifetime banned McGinnes for LITERALY no reason. They State “Specifically For:” and it is blank.....

One guy in the heat of the moment drives through a crowd and anyone that might be associated with them picks up a scarlet letter, but BLM guy shoots up Dallas.... BLM guy shoots cops in AR...... a guy tries to THE LARGEST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN US HISTORY and everyone tries to make Bernie Sanders feel better about himself.

And you know this is all to train the AI bots so that they can go hands-off and say that unbiased bots only see the right as dangerous.