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Originally Posted by GS8
So Alex Jones was recently banned from the Internet. I don't really like him though I wonder if he's an alpha performance troll.
I think his banning is pretty fucked up though. Basically tech company collusion between Apple, Youtube, Spotify and Facebook. Apple was the first to ban him and they announced it at 3am. The rest followed shortly after (less than a day).
Being an American citizen, he falls under the First Amendment. So why are the media empires deciding his fate when he hasn't performed any constitutional violation? I used to work in media so this all fascinates me. It's a slippery slope with an Orwellian precedence set to 11.
Sounds to me like MSM is systematically trying to take down alternative news sources as these sources tend to be fact based and without intrusive ads or condescending narratives. People are realizing that MSM are just propaganda arms of big corporations & tech giants who already own the government. It allows the corporations to overstep the government and do the censoring themselves.
Only posting this here because Shaun 'Milky White' King is calling for Trump to be Alex Jones'd off the Internet.
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I do not think you understand how the first amendment works. The first amendment simply states that within reason the govt cannot infringe upon your right to free speech
However youtube et al are not the government. They are private companies with terms of conditions that you must agree upon to use their platform. If you violate those terms they have every right to remove you.
I dont know why its so difficult to discern between "censorship" and "violating a private companies service agreements" but it seems like many people are struggling with the distinction