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.
Coordinated. Not a damn thing will be done about it.
Jones certainly has a few coins. It is not that expensive to set up a server farm of a few machines to deliver his own content.
Not a damn thing can or should be done about it. They have the same right to control what goes on their site as Jim does on this one.
Just another isolated incident </Glenn Beck>
For some reason many here think it's the various social media sites' responsibility to host him for free.
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The internet is a public utility.
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Vimeo is used by a lot of churches for their messages online.
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You make a very weak case.
So he’s not a total victim, then.
It’s their party and they’ll discriminate if they want to.
Alex Jones has servers. Doh.
Alex Jones does NOT have their patent privilege monopoly.
Democrats own you at a single chokepoint.
Please explain how it is.
I read that downloads for his app have tripled, since all of this nonsense.
I'm inclined to agree with this which is why I support net neutrality.
The problem is that neither Facebook nor Twitter are " the internet".
Not a damn thing can or should be done about it. They have the same right to control what goes on their site as Jim does on this one.
The rampaging Demofasicsts thank you for going AWOL from this battlefield.
Does Jim have a budget the size of Brazil and a membership larger than Christianity? Can Jim shut down businesses and turn off congressional campaigns with lines of code? Does John Robinson collude with the largest tech companies on earth to ruin some small potatoes conspiracy guy?
Is Free Republic the size of all the railroads, banks and tech companies that have fallen under anti-trust?
These are rhetorical questions, so thanks for not answering.
Because they MAKE MONEY hosting performances, and refuse to host certain performances for reasons that are otherwise “protected” and would land an employer IN JAIL.
That they make money on advertising rather than subcontracting the performers seems an arbitrary distinction to those fitting “reasonable man” qualifications.
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You apparently have no idea what the internet is.
It is the entire public communications network.
That network operates under a set of laws, and much of it is literally federal property.
Ever heard of the Federal Communication Commission?
They operate on the internet, and are subject to its rules.
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