Alex Jones and Infowars gets 'disappeared' - are we headed in the right direction?

[Angrboda]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/07/techn...peech.html

If he got banned for breaking the rules, absolutely. That's how rules work.

But that's the question here: were the rules clear, unambiguous, and fairly applied, or were they simply used as a pretext for silencing Alex Jones. Several details of events point toward the latter, including the simultaneous removal of Jones from multiple platforms. If there was one event which sparked the removal, it would be understandable, but there wasn't.

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This is literally several companies deciding that they won't do business with Alex Jones anymore.  It's not an establishment conspiracy to silence someone speaking truth to power (the guy still has his own fuckin website, retail store, endorsements, and radio shows, so if it's a conspiracy it's a shitty conspiracy).  The guy just had a pattern of acting in a way that those platforms felt brought damage to their image, so they dumped him.

That's it.  No nefarious precedent, no great illuminati plan, just people deciding that they don't want to be associated with Alex Jones' particular brand of bullshit.

That's not what the companies themselves are claiming. So there's two questions here. First, is silencing based on content that doesn't violate their rules ethical? And second, if they were evicting him because of his content, then why are these companies lying about their reasons for doing so?