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

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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?

The companies are claiming that InfoWars' content repeatedly violated their policies, and they are booting him because of this content.  They are clearly stating that InfoWars breaks their rules on hate speech, bullying, etc.  One may not agree with their rules, or call the rules gray or up for interpretation, but InfoWars broke their rules, and have been booted from the platform, period.  They aren't "lying about their reasons for doing so."

https://money.cnn.com/2018/08/06/technol...index.html  

As to the question about removing content that doesn't violate their rules - I might not call it ethical, but it sure as hell is their legal right.  I don't have any real problem with any website removing content they don't want to host, regardless of the reason.  Nobody is guaranteed a platform for their views, especially if the platform is the private property of another entity.

Like if I posted a thread about atheism on a Christian forum that was within their rules (according to my interpretation, anyway), and it was still taken down - I might be irritated or annoyed, call them hypocrites, etc, but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.  As Alex Jones himself has said - he has his own website, all the infowars yahoos can still go to that.