July 15, 2022 - 4:52pm
Infowars’ Alex Jones, described by The Southern Poverty Law Center as ‘one of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theorists in contemporary America,’ has long been the subject of controversy — and a social media ban.
When Facebook removed him in 2018, they stated that he both glorified violence, ‘which violates our graphic violence policy’ and uses ‘dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.’
But what was not clear until this week is that the social networks now seem to have banned all discussion of him, however critical.
Alex Lee Moyer is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose films have appeared at Sundance and SWSX festivals. Her latest movie — made with independent production company Play Nice — is called Alex’s War. It is an investigation of Alex Jones, but despite it only being on only out on pre-sale, she has already found that her attempts to market the film have been blocked by the social media giants because of the controversial subject matter.
According to Play Nice, when the team first released the documentary trailer, they were blocked by Instagram from adding paid promotion of it. Even posts screenshotting a Washington Post article that mentioned Alex’s War was rejected. They were informed they were being rejected to ‘protect our community.’
While there may be a prosaic explanation for this (too many people logged in from too many devices), the same cannot be said for TikTok, which took down the trailer because it deemed the video to contain ‘hateful behaviour’.
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SubscribeIt’s all completely normalized now. How much longer until we won’t even be able to read a story like this? Eventually the ISPs will start regulating all internet content. Then we will become like the Vogons in hitchiker’s guide to the galaxy. Drones will be devised to rise up out of the sand and whack you on the nose if you have an independent thought. So you never will.
In Canada the Trudeau government has passed legislation to regulate the internet. Progressives have realized that the people they sneeringly told ‘if you don’t like it – build your own Facebook’ are doing exactly that. Substack – Gab – .win communities – Truth Social – etc. So now they will force ISPs to block ‘misinformation’ from the internet completely. As usual mainstream media are either not covering this – or are full on cheerleaders for it.
For grown–ups, please allow me this opportunity to plug Alex Jones on Odysee and Alex Jones on Rumble.
At this point, I wouldn’t take a cookie from Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter if it were the last one in the barrel — too much sugar and no substance.
NB, UnHerd moderators: remove this post and I will remove your bookmark.
I find it disturbing the sheer number of posts calling for graphic violence toward supreme court justices and the lack of bans of those accounts. Biased much?
Or what about the dehumanizing language to describe people who are Trump supporters. Seen plenty of that too. Yet, no bans.
Of course not. Why is anyone surprised ?
We are now at the moment in Orwell’s 1984 when an interrogator holds up four fingers and punishes us until we say we see three fingers.
It’s all right when we do it.
Turns out he was right about most things ..
Know when all the cool people stop visiting your restaurant, and it dies? Well that’s what the legacy/MSM are or will soon start discovering. The people who matter no longer read them or watch.
I wish that were so. However, there are millions of people who are completely addicted to these sites and believe all this.
Give it time; alternatively we’re doomed.
I’m not sure that I could sit through 90 minutes of Alex Jones – he’s a nutjob. But the concerted effort of media to suppress this documentary may force me to do it.
Is your interview still on YT?
If she says ‘ya know..’ one more time, I’ll…..!!**!!