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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInfowars Lasted 15 Hours Back On Youtube Before Being Banned Again
YouTube wants you to know that its leaders really, really value openness. Apparently to prove the point, Infowars War Room YouTube channel, as first reported by Vice, was resurrected on Wednesday; most channels of the Infowars franchise were kicked off the platform last year for violating YouTubes community guidelines. But just hours after War Room reappeared, the channel was deleted when Vices Motherboard vertical took note of its rebirth.
(Right Wing Watch has found, however, that hours of Infowars programming, including the War Room and The Alex Jones Show continue to be made available on a different YouTube channel, labeled General Shepherd.)
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Since last year, Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones, have been denied access to posting their materials on virtually all major internet-based media platforms, beginning with Spotify, which banned Infowars following reporting by Right Wing Watchs Jared Holt chronicling the myriad ways in which the platforms terms-of-service rules were broken by Jones and his hosts. Apple Music, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook soon followed suit.
Jones and his colleagues are purveyors of hate-filled conspiracy theories that have even targeted the parents of the children massacred at their school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in 2012. (Jones claimed the shooting was a hoax and that the parents of murdered children were lying. In June, a parent of one the victims made headway in a defamation suit against Jones.) Jones theories led to death threats against some of the grieving parents.
YouTube and other social media platforms have come under pressure from right-wing lawmakersat the prompting of the right-wing conspiracy machine (go figure)for allegedly trying to repress the free speech of conservatives. Perhaps thats what led Wojcicki to pen her paean to openness. Weve yet to learn just what led to the re-shuttering of Infowars YouTube videos.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whipsawed-infowars-welcomed-back-to-youtube-then-axed/
(Right Wing Watch has found, however, that hours of Infowars programming, including the War Room and The Alex Jones Show continue to be made available on a different YouTube channel, labeled General Shepherd.)
<snip>
Since last year, Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones, have been denied access to posting their materials on virtually all major internet-based media platforms, beginning with Spotify, which banned Infowars following reporting by Right Wing Watchs Jared Holt chronicling the myriad ways in which the platforms terms-of-service rules were broken by Jones and his hosts. Apple Music, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook soon followed suit.
Jones and his colleagues are purveyors of hate-filled conspiracy theories that have even targeted the parents of the children massacred at their school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in 2012. (Jones claimed the shooting was a hoax and that the parents of murdered children were lying. In June, a parent of one the victims made headway in a defamation suit against Jones.) Jones theories led to death threats against some of the grieving parents.
YouTube and other social media platforms have come under pressure from right-wing lawmakersat the prompting of the right-wing conspiracy machine (go figure)for allegedly trying to repress the free speech of conservatives. Perhaps thats what led Wojcicki to pen her paean to openness. Weve yet to learn just what led to the re-shuttering of Infowars YouTube videos.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whipsawed-infowars-welcomed-back-to-youtube-then-axed/
Hate generally has a conservative bias to it. Good for Youtube. As for Infowars - womp womp!
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Infowars Lasted 15 Hours Back On Youtube Before Being Banned Again (Original Post)
Initech
Sep 2019
OP
Excellent!!! K&R!!! The haters really need to be shown the door. Hate is dangerous, because for
RKP5637
Sep 2019
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Excellent!!! K&R!!! The haters really need to be shown the door. Hate is dangerous, because for
some bizarre reason some find it to be a real turn-on. ... long time ago in my university studies we were taught about 30% of the US really needed some psychological help in one form or another. Today, I wonder if that has even increased ...
Initech
(100,129 posts)2. 30%??? That seems low!
Especially given today's climate with the boorish behavior of the MAGA crowd.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)3. Ha, today, one could probably just base it on the GOP registration percentage! n/t