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Schwarber
09/06/18 5:00:59 PM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/technology/twitter-alex-jones-infowars.html

Sept. 6, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO Apple, Facebook and Googles YouTube mostly banned Alex Jones, the right-wing provocateur and creator of the conspiracy theorist website Infowars, last month for propagating hate speech. Twitter did not.

On Thursday, though, Twitter said it would permanently suspend Mr. Joness account, and the account for Infowars. The social media company said that Mr. Jones had posted new messages within the past 24 hours that violated its policies, which prohibit direct threats of violence and some forms of hate speech but allow deception or misinformation.

Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts previous violations, the company posted on its Safety account.

Twitter announced its decision a day after its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, testified before Congress about election interference and alleged political bias on the platform. At one of two hearings on Wednesday, Mr. Dorsey denied that Twitter had a bias against conservatives, an accusation that Republican lawmakers raised repeatedly during the sessions.

Mr. Jones was on Capitol Hill Wednesday, sitting in the audience during a morning session in the Senate. At one point, he tussled with Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, in a Senate hallway and complained at another point about Facebook and Google, saying, They are outright banning people and they are blocking conservatives involved in their own First Amendment political speech.

Twitter has suspended Mr. Jones temporarily in the past after determining that his tweets violated its policies. The most recent suspension came last month and involved a video in which an adult man slammed a child to the ground. Mr. Jones was unable to post new tweets for seven days as a result of the temporary ban.

Yet Twitter stopped short of a permanent ban, even as Facebook, Apple, YouTube and others removed Mr. Joness content from their platforms in early August.

At the time, Mr. Dorsey, saying he would not depart from Twitters policies in response to political pressure, defended the companys decision to allow Mr. Jones to stay on the platform.

The permanent ban will also affect Mr. Jones Periscope account.

Traffic to Infowars plummeted after Mr. Jones was kicked off Facebook and YouTube, according to a New York Times analysis.


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CableZL
09/06/18 5:01:20 PM
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immaWHOOPdatASS
09/06/18 5:01:28 PM
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Sayoria
09/06/18 5:02:31 PM
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How will I ever get my daily dose of Hillary tapped martians to eat a Republican alive and smoke grounded up gay frogs as Colombian crack?
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RoboLaserGandhi
09/06/18 5:02:35 PM
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Banning Alex Jones is just a meme now
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Giant_Aspirin
09/06/18 5:02:40 PM
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any idea which tweets exactly were to blame here?
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CableZL
09/06/18 5:03:05 PM
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Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts previous violations, the company posted on its Safety account.

The crucial part here.

If you can't follow the terms of service guidelines, you can't guarantee that you'll have an account on their platform.
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Womp_Womp
09/06/18 5:03:32 PM
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pegusus123456
09/06/18 5:03:34 PM
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Schwarber posted...
At one of two hearings on Wednesday, Mr. Dorsey denied that Twitter had a bias against conservatives, an accusation that Republican lawmakers raised repeatedly during the sessions.

Twitter is pretty biased against Republicans though
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SuperMedz3
09/06/18 5:04:24 PM
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Will he take it to court like the gay guys who were butt hurt when a baker did not take their money?
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Giant_Aspirin
09/06/18 5:05:26 PM
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pegusus123456 posted...
Schwarber posted...
At one of two hearings on Wednesday, Mr. Dorsey denied that Twitter had a bias against conservatives, an accusation that Republican lawmakers raised repeatedly during the sessions.

Twitter is pretty biased against Republicans though


im not admitting that's true at all, but even if it was true, why dont they just leverage the free market and create their own social media platform(s)? use some of that sweet, sweet Koch brothers money and create pro-Conservative versions of all social media?

maybe i shouldn't give them ideas.
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immaWHOOPdatASS
09/06/18 5:05:39 PM
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SuperMedz3 posted...
Will he take it to court like the gay guys who were butt hurt when a baker did not take their money?


Dumb post by a dumb poster
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Nufinzorz
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The_Doge
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DezDroppedFreak
09/06/18 5:07:47 PM
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This is what happens when you taunt Marco Rubio

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SuperMedz3
09/06/18 5:08:22 PM
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immaWHOOPdatASS posted...
SuperMedz3 posted...
Will he take it to court like the gay guys who were butt hurt when a baker did not take their money?


Dumb post by a dumb poster

No need for the D word
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HypnoCoosh
09/06/18 5:08:34 PM
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This is excellent news
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ImTheMacheteGuy
09/06/18 5:12:25 PM
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Alex jones should receive a mandated lobotomy imo
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Giant_Aspirin
09/06/18 5:13:02 PM
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HypnoCoosh posted...
This is excellent news


i thought you were incredibly upset that he kept being "censored" ?
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HypnoCoosh
09/06/18 5:14:12 PM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
HypnoCoosh posted...
This is excellent news


i thought you were incredibly upset that he kept being "censored" ?


Oh, I defiantly don't agree with censorship.
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Anteaterking
09/06/18 5:16:59 PM
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BLAKUboy
09/06/18 5:18:20 PM
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Giant_Aspirin posted...
any idea which tweets exactly were to blame here?

All of them. This is likely the board finally growing some balls and telling Jack Dorsey to go fuck himself, since he's the only reason Jones was still on the platform in the first place.
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TrevorBlack79
09/06/18 5:18:54 PM
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SuperMedz3 posted...
immaWHOOPdatASS posted...
SuperMedz3 posted...
Will he take it to court like the gay guys who were butt hurt when a baker did not take their money?


Dumb post by a dumb poster

No need for the D word


He's not wrong, though.
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Zack_Attackv1
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HypnoCoosh
09/06/18 5:19:13 PM
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Bullet_Wing posted...
HypnoCoosh posted...
Giant_Aspirin posted...
HypnoCoosh posted...
This is excellent news


i thought you were incredibly upset that he kept being "censored" ?


Oh, I defiantly don't agree with censorship.

Good, so you agree this is deserved and not censorship then?


No I don't agree.
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TomNook20
09/06/18 5:19:53 PM
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CableZL posted...
Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts previous violations, the company posted on its Safety account.

The crucial part here.

If you can't follow the terms of service guidelines, you can't guarantee that you'll have an account on their platform.

What were the tweets and videos?
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Giant_Aspirin
09/06/18 5:21:27 PM
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HypnoCoosh posted...
Bullet_Wing posted...
HypnoCoosh posted...
Giant_Aspirin posted...
HypnoCoosh posted...
This is excellent news


i thought you were incredibly upset that he kept being "censored" ?


Oh, I defiantly don't agree with censorship.

Good, so you agree this is deserved and not censorship then?


No I don't agree.


OK Hypno, I'll play your little game .... then why do you say "This is excellent news"?
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Tyranthraxus
09/06/18 5:23:13 PM
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ImTheMacheteGuy posted...
Alex jones should receive a mandated lobotomy imo

Can't remove something that isn't there
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s0nicfan
09/06/18 5:29:38 PM
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I dunno about you guys, but this has been a great week for Alex Jones. His whole insane platform basically boils down to "there's a deep state controlling government, and I'm close to the truth." Now in the same week an anonymous letter from a senior official claims that a segment of the executive branch is actively manipulating the president AND he gets banned from twitter. He was a nobody only 2 years ago and now he's got the martyr validation he's been looking for the same week he gets "proof" of his deep state conspiracy.

tl;dr: Jones right now:
Pl1tQAT
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HypnoCoosh
09/06/18 5:32:46 PM
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Yup

Pl1tQAT
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CruelBuffalo
09/06/18 5:32:56 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
I dunno about you guys, but this has been a great week for Alex Jones. His whole insane platform basically boils down to "there's a deep state controlling government, and I'm close to the truth." Now in the same week an anonymous letter from a senior official claims that a segment of the executive branch is actively manipulating the president AND he gets banned from twitter. He was a nobody only 2 years ago and now he's got the martyr validation he's been looking for the same week he gets "proof" of his deep state conspiracy.

tl;dr: Jones right now:
Pl1tQAT


And hopefully since his information wont be as easily accessed less idiots will fall for his stupid stories
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Questionmarktarius
09/06/18 5:33:54 PM
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CableZL posted...
Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts previous violations, the company posted on its Safety account.

The crucial part here.

If you can't follow the terms of service guidelines, you can't guarantee that you'll have an account on their platform.

This.

Fair, plus also next.
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pebblethefleet
09/06/18 5:35:53 PM
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pegusus123456 posted...
Schwarber posted...
At one of two hearings on Wednesday, Mr. Dorsey denied that Twitter had a bias against conservatives, an accusation that Republican lawmakers raised repeatedly during the sessions.

Twitter is pretty biased against Republicans though

Twitter is way too easy on the right. Theres so many cases of someone having pictures of concentration camp ovens with them shopped in sent to them, reporting it, being told its not a violation, then themselves getting suspended for calling the offender an asshole
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pegusus123456
09/06/18 5:39:49 PM
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pebblethefleet posted...
pegusus123456 posted...
Schwarber posted...
At one of two hearings on Wednesday, Mr. Dorsey denied that Twitter had a bias against conservatives, an accusation that Republican lawmakers raised repeatedly during the sessions.

Twitter is pretty biased against Republicans though

Twitter is way too easy on the right. Theres so many cases of someone having pictures of concentration camp ovens with them shopped in sent to them, reporting it, being told its not a violation, then themselves getting suspended for calling the offender an asshole

If Twitter was easy on the right, they'd have banned Trump a long time ago.
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HypnoCoosh
09/06/18 5:40:06 PM
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creativerealms
09/06/18 5:42:15 PM
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This is what Alex Jones wants. Nothing helps a professional conspiracy theorist more then bans. They can easily be used as proof that "they" are trying to silence the truth. Alex Jones won.
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Tmaster148
09/06/18 5:43:13 PM
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creativerealms posted...
This is what Alex Jones wants. Nothing helps a professional conspiracy theorist more then bans. They can easily be used as proof that "they" are trying to silence the truth. Alex Jones won.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html
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creativerealms
09/06/18 5:45:08 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
creativerealms posted...
This is what Alex Jones wants. Nothing helps a professional conspiracy theorist more then bans. They can easily be used as proof that "they" are trying to silence the truth. Alex Jones won.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html

Good.
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HBOSS
09/06/18 5:47:50 PM
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first Alex Jones
then the trolls.

twitter gonna be hate free!!
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FightingGames
09/06/18 5:55:07 PM
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first LTG and now this? get that ass banned
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ManBeast462
09/06/18 6:02:11 PM
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The censorship continues, this is how Trump will win again
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LightningAce11
09/06/18 6:03:09 PM
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The only people that care are his mongoloid fanbase, not normal people.
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Tmaster148
09/06/18 7:30:53 PM
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ManBeast462 posted...
The censorship continues, this is how Trump will win again


In that case, we should also censor anyone using a pony avatar.
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Hawaiian_punch
09/06/18 7:32:37 PM
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Tmaster148 posted...
ManBeast462 posted...
The censorship continues, this is how Trump will win again


In that case, we should also censor anyone using a pony avatar.


Whats with pony avatars and racism!?
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Southernfatman
09/06/18 7:33:34 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdEINFmMn4M" data-time="


Also, Alex Jones secretly being Bill Hicks in disguise is my favorite conspiracy theory. I don't believe it, but the hypothetical is fun to think about.
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Tmaster148
09/06/18 7:33:44 PM
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Hawaiian_punch posted...
Tmaster148 posted...
ManBeast462 posted...
The censorship continues, this is how Trump will win again


In that case, we should also censor anyone using a pony avatar.


Whats with pony avatars and racism!?


When you are a socially awkward loser who is into MLP. Being a racist is a step up. They just forget that it doesn't change the fact they are still the first thing.
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ImNotAnIdiot
09/06/18 7:35:05 PM
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This is why Trump won.
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ultimate reaver
09/06/18 7:35:17 PM
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