What do you think of this? I'm sure the right wing will largely view it as an attack on the right and an attack on free speech, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
I saw an interesting take on it. Essentially, if they're using the reason that he promotes 'hate speech', that doesn't merit removal. It's too broad of a term to be consistent in what qualifies as hate speech. The real reason he deserved his takedown was the continued defamatory comments he directed towards the parents of victims of both Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas. 2 parents of a 6 year old murdered in Sandy Hook have had to move 7 times to escape Alex Jones' harassers, including one kook sentenced to 5 months in jail for stalking and harassment.
Do you think smearing the parents of school shooting victims is worthy of de-platforming?
He also recently went on a rant about spotify taking down his clips and he screamed at his audience "when is somebody going to do something?!"...
I think these companies saw that it was a matter of time before one of Jones' supporters "did something"... and they didn't want to be sued for promoting his show that encourages violence. Thank God for deregulation and the free market, amirite right wingers?
I saw an interesting take on it. Essentially, if they're using the reason that he promotes 'hate speech', that doesn't merit removal. It's too broad of a term to be consistent in what qualifies as hate speech. The real reason he deserved his takedown was the continued defamatory comments he directed towards the parents of victims of both Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas. 2 parents of a 6 year old murdered in Sandy Hook have had to move 7 times to escape Alex Jones' harassers, including one kook sentenced to 5 months in jail for stalking and harassment.
Do you think smearing the parents of school shooting victims is worthy of de-platforming?
He also recently went on a rant about spotify taking down his clips and he screamed at his audience "when is somebody going to do something?!"...
I think these companies saw that it was a matter of time before one of Jones' supporters "did something"... and they didn't want to be sued for promoting his show that encourages violence. Thank God for deregulation and the free market, amirite right wingers?
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