InfoWars Ban: CNN, Democrats Successfully Lobby Big Tech to Censor Their Critics

Breitbart ^ | 6 Aug 2018 | Allum Bokhari

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Big tech’s coordinated purge of InfoWars — which was hit by bans from Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube in rapid succession — did not occur in a vacuum. On this issue, Silicon Valley bowed to CNN journalists and Democrat politicians who ceaselessly lobbied for the site to be censored. It’s a sign of how the concentration of power in America has shifted from big government to big tech that politicians are now lobbying tech companies rather than the other way round, but that’s exactly what happened over the course of the past few months, as Democrats applied relentless pressure on Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants to censor InfoWars.

Chief among them was Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), who demanded that a Facebook representative “explain” their decision not to ban InfoWars at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on social media censorship last month. Calling Jones as “well-known conspiracy theorist” whose “brand is bullying,” Deutch also demanded Google’s representative explain how many strikes it would take for a channel on Google-owned YouTube to be deleted.

He then asked Google’s representative if they thought conspiracy theories were a “problem,” and asked her to explain the company’s planned solutions. It seems that YouTube has now come up with a solution: ban the channels that Rep. Deutch objects to.

[heights]

As the “Airwaves’ belong to the People, the Internet, modernity’s ‘Airwaves’ belong to Us. The Tech Giants should not be able to decide what the people have access to.

[nevermorelenore]

The site is down

[Jess Kitting]

Of course, I wear a tinfoil hate from time-to-time.

My hate is not tin-foil. It's genuine.

[SarahPalin2012]

Just like this site won’t let you post one of their articles.

FR is upfront about its conservative leaning. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter are presented to the public as a social site without obvious or upfront political leaning.

Fort them to ban/shadow ban conservatives, when they have massive control over public discourse, is misleading the public. The media and internet at this time does need oversight and regulation by a conservative authority. Each instance of bias should be exponentially penalized. First occurrence of bias: 1 Million, then 10 Million, then 100million, then 1billion, then 100billion, then 1trillion (Apple just reached a total net worth of 1trillion). So if they have six violations, they'd be left with a few dollars.

[editor-surveyor]

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If you don’t understand that Alex has been right on the money with The WTC scam, you are just another snowflake in the avalanch.

Reality is clearly too much for you.

[editor-surveyor]

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Alex has always been amazing.

His love for the truth is on a plane above all others.

[Pelham]

"Reality is clearly too much for you, e-s."

But then that's hardly a secret around here.

[editor-surveyor]

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Social media use our internet, so they are public utilities.

This will end up at SCOTUS, and Alex will win.

Your rant is hyperbole.
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[editor-surveyor]

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The 2018 election will be a big GOP celebration.

That is the reason for all the fake news they bury us with.

[editor-surveyor]

You are a total snowflake nut!

It happened, and those of us that are experienced saw it in real time and knew what had happened.

Just hold your mommie’s hand real tight and close your eyes forever. You ain’t seen nothin yet. This will empower the spooks to the max. This is the 6th seal; does that mean anything to you?
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[Sontagged]

While it's wrong that Alex Jones got deep-sixed off the socials, I still don't trust that he isn't part of the Elites’ Hegelian schematic.

(He's thrown too many Baphomet hand signs I guess and tends to stir up conflict instead of looking towards resolution of problems.)

[indthkr]

"declared a monopoly under the Sherman Anti Trust Act"

Youtube et. al. intellectual property portfolios should be declared open source as a consequence of their monopolistic positions.

[TheNext]

ALEX JONES IS EFFECTIVE

Big media bans Alex Jones ...

... because Alex Jones is EFFECTIVE !

[M-cubed]

Great side Note!

ol·i·garch ˈäləˌɡärk/ noun plural noun: oligarchs

1. a ruler in an oligarchy. 2. (especially in Russia) a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence.

Bezos, Gates, Ellison, zuckerberg, etc. Trump should troll them with that!!!

[FlyingEagle]

This event marks the death of freedom of speech in America.

[Boomer]

That link doesn’t work but this one does.

https://www.infowars.com/

[babyfreep]

Thank you for that link.

[JudgemAll]

Full30.com

Not sure about Minds or Vomvos. Crypto libertarian Steemit seem promising

But so far no one floating anything on Walstreet that is interesting

[R_Kangel]

.... Yup.... The stakes are high ....

..... This is pretty much the new "IRS Type Scandal" brewing for the Mid Terms .... Heck .... They know there could be an eventual investigation ... But stopping a Trump/Conservative Wave is MUCH more important to them than a stupid investigation that may never happen if the Democrats take back the House and Senate.

..... In that eventuality .... They then will wield much more power than they do now. Heck .... Can you say "Absolute Media Power?"

[Nellie Wilkerson]

Report Facebook abuse to Facebook:

Click ? in blue bar.
Choose “Report a Problem”
Select “Newsfeed” in “Select a product.”
In the “What happened” box, type something about no longer seeing or being able to find Infowars. Add, “Please correct ASAP”.
Click “send.”

We need thousands — millions — to do this “reporting Facebook abuse to Facebook.”