steven36 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 While Facebook seems happy to host fake news conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, YouTube is taking a (very small) stand. How much is too much for the social networks to stand? In the case of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars channel, we haven't quite found out -- but today, YouTube is firing another warning shot by removing four of his videos, as well as the ability to broadcast live to YouTube for 90 days. According to a post at Infowars that's since been corroborated by The Verge and now CNET as well, The Alex Jones Channel has received another strike for posting four videos that include "violent or graphic content" -- videos which no longer appear to exist on his YouTube page. (CNET won't link directly to the videos, but one of them includes a man violently shoving a kid to the ground, with the title "How To Prevent Liberalism: A Public Service Announcement". The videos do not appear to include the one where Jones pretended to shoot Robert Mueller, which doesn't appear to have been on YouTube to begin with.) Does that mean Infowars is about to be banned from YouTube? Not really. While YouTube has a three-strikes policy -- it'll delete a YouTube channel after the third offense -- the company is only considering these four videos to be worth a single strike, and Jones can appeal. And though Infowars already got a strike in February, that strike didn't last: A YouTube strike only lasts three months after it's issued. So Infowars only has a single strike as of today. So, like Facebook, it appears that YouTube will continue to tolerate much of Infowars for now. "We have long standing policies against child endangerment and hate speech. We apply our policies consistently according to the content in the videos, regardless of the speaker or the channel," said YouTube in an emailed statement. Infowars didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 too bad it is only 90 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 On 7/25/2018 at 11:48 PM, dMog said: too bad it is only 90 days What there doing is no different than Countries that have laws against freedom of speech . The difference is Apple , Google and Facebook are trying to dictate what media a user sees and there not the Government even.. like Info Wars or not. They accursed him in the media of saying things that there is no record of him saying . The masses are sheep's to there slaughter because they get all there info from big tech . It starts with info wars and ends with banning anyone that dont agree with what the left winged mainstream media says, witch post just as much fake news as the right does. Fake news from the left don't make it true, so what there doing is very one sided. I don't watch Info wars, but people should have a right to watch it if they wish . And i will explain to them how to watch it . You can can get the Infowars official app for Android or the Official addon for Kodi or stream it from info wars website. The point is Apple , Google and Facebook dont control freedom of speech, they only control it on there platforms and that's why smart people are leaving there sites for others. If I'm looking for something on the internet i know how find it without using big tech to do it . As being a pirate, left winged Big Tech has been trying to hide it's results from us for years now and i have got really good at getting around it and the websites never go away because they censor it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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