Posted on 08/12/2018 8:10:23 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Vimeo has pulled Infowars content from its site for violating the platform’s standards.
A spokesperson for the video hosting service told Business Insider on Sunday that the Infowars videos "violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content.”
The videos had been uploaded to the site on Thursday and Friday. The Vimeo spokesperson also told Business Insider that the company had told the account owner of the videos’ removal, and also issued a refund because "we do not want to profit from content of this nature in any way."
The site reported that Infowars had less than a dozen videos on the platform as of Wednesday, but that more than 50 videos were posted to the site on the following days.
Vimeo reportedly determined that the content violated the company’s trust and safety standards within 48 hours of the videos being posted.
Business Insider reported that Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud will announce the removal of the Infowars content during a town hall meeting on Monday.
Vimeo is the latest platform to pull content posted by Infowars or its founder Alex Jones. Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts have all recently banned or removed content from the site or its controversial conspiracy theorist founder.
Twitter has said that Infowars and Jones will be permitted to stay on the site because they haven’t violated its policies.
A Twitter spokesperson said Friday the decision to allow them to remain on the site will stay in place, despite a CNN report revealing that Jones had repeatedly violated its policies.
Jones has faced criticism for spreading conspiracy theories, and was sued by the parents of two children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting for allegedly claiming the shooting was a hoax. Jones has denied making the statements.
“Internet Service Providers are common carriers and must carry all comers.”
The way things are going that won’t last long.
‘I’m sorry to inform you that we no longer value you as a customer...We’ve seen from our logs that you like visiting FreeRepublic and other unsavory sites that violate our sensibilities...shared values...blah blah blah
That’s when you call Saul and sue them into oblivion.
Secure in the knowledge that the damage your lawsuit will inflict will mainly fall upon public-sector retirees!
Not only that, but such collusion can lead to your bank account and credit cards being closed to you and other financial consequences.
Good luck with that...Our corrupt courts are a bigger threat & concern than these tech giants acting in concert.
True...the left are out of control. One thing I’ve learned from history is that when the left is ‘given’ unfettered power, things don’t end too well.
Insofar as their commercial activities violate equal opportunity standards applied to housing, employment, and credit: yes.
What part of “reasons that are otherwise “protected” and would land an employer IN JAIL” were you having trouble understanding? Don’t employers pay for and maintain their profit platforms?
And before you avoid giving any answers by posing the next obvious stalling question...
FreeRepublic is explicitly and overtly partisan.
The DNC does NOT have to hire Republican operatives to satisfy EEOC guidelines.
So is your car, unless the driver starts making decisions on who gets a ride and who doesn't.
The internet is privately run, anyone can start, run and promote a website and there are very few ways that people can be stopped (even illegal content and hacking services are hard to stop). What you are really saying is that MyTwitFace is a public utility and that they are required to give everyone an account. That is not only incorrect but detrimental to innovation.
Because as soon as that is required and regulators step in, then MyTwitFace will be able to stop any competition.
That is not true. All of the commercial internet is private property. Most of the non-commercial internet is owned by private non-profits and run under gentleman's agreements. The heavy hand of Federal regulation does not exist.
The Chinese have their great firewall to enforce their versions of censorship. Does it work? Not if there is any internet provided. The Chinese could give every Chinese a walled garden AOL experience, and they try to some extent. But as soon as a single Chinese company is allowed to advertise their products to the rest of the world, that creates potential covert channels to get information in and out.
There are thousands of programmers around the world that work on anti-censorship software allowing people to browse whatever they want. Undoubtedly it is more cumbersome than an open internet, but it works, provided you aren't trying to stream censored video (video streaming is too much of a bandwidth hog to hide inside other traffic).
Bottom line, complete censorship is impossible. Freerepublic could be blacklisted but that would ultimately fail as people simply ignore the "AOL" internet content and only use the real internet hidden underneath.
Nope. That’s because a large portion of the GOP can’t stand us. You don’t think Ryan wants to shut up Alex Jones or Breitbart as much as Schumer? Of course he does.
Pray tell, what do you think the transition from private to public oversight of aircraft looked like?
How was this detrimental to air travel, and what innovation has been lost?
While anyone can start a website, if you're going to do business in this country, be it by mail, direct sales, or internet there are EEOC guidelines that are being improperly sidestepped with the claim of "privacy." If "MyTwitFace" wants to discriminate against otherwise protected classes, they have to do it for free: not as a business.
Yes until the server provider decides they don’t like the content being ran off of their site, just like Gab got threatened by Microsoft who provides their server platform to Gab. Told Gab to remove a couple of posts from one user or else they’d stop letting Gab use their servers.
If private corporations are permitted to censor speech, then how are we to prevent government from quietly pressuring them behind the scenes to do the government’s bidding
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BINGO!!!!!
imo that is what happened here with Alex Jones and certain voices on the right that are starting to be slowly kicked off of social media don’t put it past some left-wing loons in the government and politicians asking for some favors from their big Tech left-wing buddies. So government censorship by proxy.
I think the prospect of planes crashing into houses made that kind of oversight inevitable. What you are suggesting is the FAA drone registry has not gone nearly far enough. All drone owners must required to let their drones be rented for reasonable periods of time by anyone in the public who needs a drone to survey their pastures or whatever.
Or someone putting their home on airbnb must install wheel chair ramps whether that makes sense or not.
Or an Uber driver must be forced to drive in black areas or be charged with discrimination.
The rabid lefties in control of these tech giants are the same rabid lefties in control of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTs,etc. They are the same rabid lefties in control of our 4 trillion dollar corrupt stasi state...
The idea that they’re coordinating their efforts to stifle speech, access, etc. should concern every sober and rational person.
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Apparently some here don’t see a big deal about it. CNN blatantly called for them to ban Alex Jones.
Server farms aren't cheap, Laz. Setting one up in Luxembourg right now and between the servers, bandwidth, hosting space, electrical, AC, cabinets, cabling, storage, routers, switches, expertise to stand it all up and get it going, it's in the MILLIONS of dollars.
Think Alex Jones has that kind of money to spread his bullshit nuttery? I don't. He hasn't sold enough fake vitamins yet.
Vimeo just kicked away a chance to advantage themselves relative to Youtube. But they chose to join the moral poseurs instead - “See my virtue and admire!”
Do you think the systematic alienation of protected activity groups from what the Supreme Court has already called the "modern public square" will be any less compelling?
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