Little rant regarding the kneeling thing.

[Angrboda]

Yeah, it's not so much about the nikes. Do whatever you want to things you bought. But they're vilifying Colin for exercising a basic American right. As for censoring Alex Jones, I imagine it's because he's a wacko, but he's far from the only one. I'm not sure why they targeted him specifically, since I didn't pay attention to any stories about it, or the recent thread here.

Who is the arbitrator of who I'd a wacko or not?

Free speech is free speech. If free speech only applies to the speech you like, it's not free speech.

If you subscribe to the argument that corporations should be the arbitrator of free speech (for whatever reason, most left wing people seem fine with this with Alex Jones and not Colin) then at least be consistent with that argument.

Instead the exact same people who say YouTube not only can, but should censor certain people, don't feel like the NFL has that right.

No moral consistency whatsoever.

That's not exactly accurate. Alex Jones agreed to certain terms of use which he violated. The NFL players are not violating any prior agreement. The conduct of players is dictated by the players agreement. Nowhere in that agreement was there anything about the expression Kaepernick engaged in, and it's even questionable whether requiring players to be "respectful" during the anthem does not run afoul of that agreement. So, in one case, these social platforms were simply holding Jones and others to a prior agreement, in the other, the NFL was punishing people for behavior which was not prohibited. The latter is censorship, the former probably isn't censorship.