Alex Jones and his InfoWars enterprise is a well-known conspiracy theorist. Every so often, he comes up with something true and interesting but most of his output is fun but solidly in the fake news category.
Well, it seems that he got some attention at high levels - from technology website CNet:
Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify ban Infowars: A conspiracy theorist's dream?
In a move presaged by weeks of mounting pressure, Apple, Facebook, Google's YouTube and Spotify cracked down on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media empire, removing wide swathes of content or terminating his accounts entirely. All the actions seemed to happen within 24 hours.
Was it a long-overdue crackdown or a conspiracy of censorship? That depends on who you ask. The truth -- wait, does that still exist? -- is probably neither. But in a hyper-divisive era, the opaque manner that tech companies enforce their community standards leaves them open to being villainized by both sides, even those straining at opposite ends of a political tug-of-war.
I thought that Orwell's 1984 was a cautionary tale and not an instruction manual. The timing is curious - all gone within 24 hours. Must have angered the deep state. And, of course, Facebook doesn't touch Antifa or Screwy-Louis Farrakahn.
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