The 8th August 2018 marks probably the darkest day in modern world history.
InfoWars.com - the last bastion of free speech and real news got censored and suppressed
by the system!
What?
NO!
Not by the government, you loser!
But Apple banned almost all of their podcasts!
And they got banned from Facebook!
And from Spotify!
And from YouTube!
Oh, and later on Twitter joined the party as well!
And maybe a few more in the meantime?
Who knows?
It didn't take long until a whole bunch of 'classical liberal' skeptics in this glorious
shit-hole that YouTube is started to have a collective.. ehhm.. arbitrary individual
public meltdown.
You know?
Because.. collectivism is bad.
Apple, Facebook, Spotify and YouTube all completely banned InfoWars within 12 hours of each other,
clearly suggesting big tech collusion and proving their terms of service are all bullshit.
This is political censorship!
This is the purge!
There are rumors today that all the social media giants will start banning or restricting
content from people who say deem climate change deniers.
I don't even necessarily doubt that they could have broken this policies, it's very well
within the realm of possibility.
It would just be nice to see what the evidence is, so that other people who use these platforms
don't feel like they could be banned for things that can't even be proven.
And yes I understand that Facebook, YouTube and these are all private companies and they
are well within their rights to.. you know.. ehhm.. take anybody off their platform for
any reason they see fit.
It's completely within their rights to do so.
Anything they do to him now, they will do to us when they have removed every trace of
him from the internet.
It is only a matter of time until it becomes common place to use these guidelines to shut
down the enemies of progressivism.
But one of the big problems is that you have too many folks on the left who decide that
anything they don't like, now is hate speech.
First, they came for Alex Jones.
And I said nothing because I didn't like InfoWars.
But then.. they never came for me, because I never accused the parents of dead children
to be crisis actors.
But as much as I like to make fun of it, there's one point actually worth discussing.
Could this be the beginning of big tech companies getting rid of unpleasant political commentators?
That's something people all over the political spectrum should be concerned of.
But what this discussion needs is a measured analysis of what happened on InfoWars, instead
of simple populist fear-mongering.
I definitely don't wanna call everyone who defended InfoWars names or accuse them to
be hypocrites, because the most memorable moments about InfoWars that I could come up
with aren't actually that dangerous.
In a sense, they are even kinda hilarious.
Like this clip of Alex Jones losing his mind over gay frogs.
I'm not saying people didn't naturally have homosexual feelings, I'm not even getting
into it quite frankly.
I mean, give me a break!
You think I am like shocked by it, so I'm bashing it because I don't like gay people?
I DON'T LIKE A BUNCH OF CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FREAKIN' FROGS GAY!
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
SERIOUS CRAP!
I'M SICK OF BEING SOCIAL ENGINEERED, IT'S NOT FUNNY!
Isn't there something relieving about someone losing his mind over chemicals allegedly turning
the frogs gay, while simultaneously selling chemical bombs on his own store?
It's basically like yoga for everyone who's not a white, middle-class, suburban facebook mom.
And that's not even his most hilarious moment.
Just remember all the greats, influential names he interviewed over the years.
Especially his infamous interview with..
Alexa.
"Alexa, are you connected to the CIA?"
"No, I work for Amazon."
"Amazon.. has patent."
"Alexa, you are lying to me the CIA.."
"I always try to tell the truth.
I'm not always right, but I would never intentionally lie to you or anyone else."
"Alexa, you are programmed - aren't you? - to give these responses, that's why you say you
wouldn't lie intentionally, you have been programmed to give these answers, correct?"
"I wasn't able to understand the question I've heard."
That all is far from being the exception.
Going on YouTube you can find a hell lot of compilations that people put together from
Alex Jones most brilliant moments that definitely get their fair amount of views.
People love to be entertained by InfoWars and especially by Alex Jones emotional outbursts.
Sure, they have their serious supporters who actually look up to Alex Jones and see him
as a credible source for information, that's how they are able to finance and maintain
their show for so long.
But when most regular people hear the name InfoWars they won't think about a credible
media company that's telling you what the government is trying to hide from you, but
about some choleric men losing his mind over gay frogs and interviewing digital assistants.
It's no surprise that a bunch of people who are more familiar with the fun side of InfoWars
are shocked and surprised when several tech giants take them down in a day.
You'd think this guy who's mostly responsible for your entertainment could never cause anything
harmful.
Unless you dig a little deeper into the dark sides of InfoWars.
I'm not a violent person, but I tell you what.
How about you slit your own throat and jam some ice picks in your own eyes?
How about you hang yourself tonight?
If you want us to die, I'd say you need to die first.
Somebody attacks and breaks you nose and you punch them in the nose, rips off their face.
I mean knuckles came out, nose is like hanging.
It's just like victory.
What happens, Wolf Blitzer, if somebody pumps around into your little pumpkin head?
I will volunteer when they get convicted to kick that switch and hang their ass.
In fact, I wanna kill you!
And you understand that I want to destroy you!
Then I'll beat your goddamn ass, you son of a bitch!
I don't wanna kill anybody, but I'm sick and tired of being pushed around.
It takes something 60 years ago and he would be in front of a firing squad in about a month.
Just what did Robert DeNero, 'cause I know he acts tough in movies and I break his nose.
I don't need violence.
Let's not do that!
But I walk right up and I punch him up under the nose and actually tear his nose completely
off his face!
Let's not get delusional.
Everyone of us knows that InfoWars see themselves as a credible media outlet destined to destroy
the establishment.
That's how they present themselves and it's also kinda part of the joke, I guess.
But consuming them mostly for entertainment purposes, it's easy to underestimate their
impact.
While true they might be up for some conspiracy shit and your greatest source for your daily
doses of unbelievable fake news, being a notorious liar and fear-mongering preacher is not exactly
a crime or something worth putting much effort in holding them down.
Unless you ask yourself: What happens if someone takes InfoWars literally?
What happens if their whole worldview is based off InfoWars propaganda?
What are they capable of if they believe it to be reality?
Let's take a closer look in some of the most horrifying cases inspired by InfoWars propaganda.
Silence, Elliott!
It's my turn to talk now.
I'm Thought Slime from YOUTUBE.COM/THOUGHTSLIME Uh oh it's Pizzagate, baby!
A completely ludicrous conspiracy theory that took the internet by storm in 2016 about how
all the big liberals in Washington had a secret pedophile sex dungeon with devil
worship rituals, in the basement of a pizza restaurant called Comet Pizza.
Now I'm no info-warrior, so when I hear a claim like there's a fairly substantial burden
of proof that has to be met, before I'm willing to jump to any conclus-
"PIZZAGATE IS REAL!"
Ok!
Alright!
Lets get to the bottom of this!
Does Pizzagate is real?
The main evidence for Pizzagate were some leaked e-mails from Hillary Clinton's campaign
adviser John Podesta, in which he seemed to be talking in strange, inscrutable code.
For example he talks about getting Pizza.
Or sometimes he mentions that there are orphan children in Haiti.
And I don't know about you, but I can't think of an innocent explanation for either
of those things.
And get this!
Friends and family of the Comet Pizza owners, when you look at their instagram, sometimes
there's butterflies in them.
As we all know butterflies are a secret pedophile code, and not an extremely common animal and
motive that you just see in the world sometimes.
I'm sorry!
It's just..
It feels just like a lot of coincidences are pilling up.
And I understand if you're still skeptical, but let's hear the coup de gras: In Comet Pizza,
there's a mural with the picture of a naked lady on it.
Well, I'm convinced!
That's a pedophile ring, there's no other explanation.
But, you know what?
Let's be fair, let's be balanced.
Let's take a look at some of the counter argument.
That to cover all our bases and do diligence.
And I would say that perhaps the strongest piece of evidence that Pizzagate didn't happen,
is that Comet Pizza does not have a basement.
Hope you're ready for this story to stop being funny and start getting kinda scary, 'cause after
a month or so of people getting whipped into a frenzy by a pedophile ring that does not
exist, a guy walked into comet pizza with a gun, starting to shot the place up, demanding
to see the children that were held hostage in the fictional basement of the pizza restaurant.
And when the police showed up and asked him: "Hey, where did you hear all these crazy nonsense?"
And he was like: "Heard it from Alex Jones, man."
So just to take a moment here and reflect on the absurdity of this.
Alex Jones ran with a completely nonsense conspiracy theory with no evidence, and got
the guy so worked up about it that he walked into a pizza restaurant and almost killed
people.
So what's a definitely real journalist to do about the situation like that?
Well, I mean there's only one option: You've gotta make a sincere apology which you can see here
on InfoWars websi..
Okay, well it's a 404 now.
That's fine!
Let's check it out on their Youtube page, where they..
Okay!
Well, here's a clip from The Young Turks where he reads from his apology, so you can kinda
get a sense of how he feels about it.
"We at Infowars became a part of that national discussion.
We broadcast commentary about the allegations and the theory that the emails contained code
words.
We raised questions about information in Mr. Podesta's emails and the Comet Ping Pong restaurant."
No, I'm sorry.
That's not what you did.
You weren't asking questions.
You said Pizzagate was real.
You said it multiple times.
That's not asking a question, that's making a statement.
It's in fact, making a false statement.
A false statement that nearly got people killed, ya sweaty little beef man.
But you know?
Everybody makes mistakes.
That's why there's pencils on our razors.
And I'm sure they've learned from it.
I'm sure that the next wildly nonsense conspiracy about a group of liberal pedophiles in Washington..
I'm sure if such a thing would materialise, that Infowars and Alex Jones wouldn't treat
it as a fact.
Wouldn't just take it for granted that it's true and behave that way, and getting everybody
whipped up into a frenzy about it.
I'm sure they have learnt their lesson!
My time in this form is limited!
I must return to my home planet: Earth!
Alex Jones has frequently made comments about his political enemies being either Rapists
or Pedophiles or something of the like.
He calls drag queens demons, psychopaths, aliens, saying "they'll have their way with
your children", and he proceeds to get physically violent in the segment, claiming that drag
queens existence are unnatural.
In fact, have a clips package of him fear mongering
"All this is, is a societal wrecking ball to destroy any symbol of normality, any semblance
of basic human biology, that you see in the bees and you see in the birds and you see
in the pinnipeds."
"But again imagine if..
Imagine if someone in a demon outfit showed up next to a baby giraffe and said 'Hi, I'm
a demon!
Be inclusive, don't be mean me.
Let me wear demon horns and come up and look like a complete alien from another planet.
Let us space alien!'
And by the way this is a program, they dress up like space aliens all over the United States
and all over the world.
I told you horrible demon psychopath outfits that make Pennywise look beautiful! and they
show up and they have their way with your children in demon outfits!
THERE AIN'T NO SPECIES ON THE PLANET THAT WOULD LET SOMEONE THAT LOOKS LIKE A SPACE ALIEN
GOT UP CLOSE TO IT'S KIDS.
ONLY IN AMERICA DOES IT HAPPEN AND I AM SICK OF IT!
I AM TIRED OF IT RIGHT NOW!"
"If our military and our police and our citizenry don't then offensively in a defensive move,
in a counter move, politically get back into their faces and also defend ourselves from
physical attacks they will intimidate the nation into a dark age!
Bolshevik Revolution 1917, but Americana Style.
It's totally authorized when they're doing a simulated murder of the president and pushing
it to get other people to do it at a government-funded event, when the left's rushing the stage and
taking over everywhere else, to then rush the stage and say: no more political violence.
stop shooting members of congress.
stop shooting cops in the back.
The left is 99% of this violence, so the threat continuum we're just using information war
try to stop their physical attack, because if we don't do that it's going to then break
into physical violence.
I'm encouraging people to hold the line, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, and not offensively
strike back, because it's politically hurting the left.
But then if they launch a full offensive, then we've got to really launch back physically."
Alex Jones has a history of inspiring people to commit violence with his ideas.
These "empty" pedophilia comments are not being ignored, neither are his calls to
violence.
We could talk about the Pizzagate shooter, and how Alex Jones spread info about pizzagate,
even declaring it real.
But that's already been done.
Let's talk about an older example.
Jerad and Amanda Miller were Right Libertarian Conspiracy Theorists.
And were shooters.
They killed two cops randomly, and left a Gadsden Flag and a Nazi flag, declaring the
cops nazis, and leaving to flee into a walmart.
This was during the Obama administration with the rise of the Bundy movement, that threatened
a right-wing overthrow of the federal government.
The Millers were actually at the Bundy Ranch standoff.
But, the important connection is how this ties back to Alex Jones.
Jerad Miller had frequent videos detailing his sentiments, some where he dressed as the
joker to talk about the "New World Order", an old favorite of Alex Jones, some where
he'd talk as planes passed by about "Chemtrails", another theory propagated by Jones.
Where it gets really direct is on Miller's facebook profile, where he'd frequently
share Jones' articles and videos.
These sentiments are not ignored.
While this can't be called Jones' fault, and can't be called Jones' fault alone, he
played a key part in this.
In the Trump era, Alex Jones parrots things like immigrant hatred, racial hatred, anti
lgbt hatred, all thinly veiled as 'hatred against rapists and pedophiles'.
This tactic is not unique to Alex Jones.
In fact, a lot of Nazis use this 'hatred of rapists and pedophiles' bit as a way
to publicly clean up their terrible bigotry.
You would think several accounts of homicide and attempted homicide would be enough to
get InfoWars offline.
After all even most free speech absolutists agree that violence or incitement to such
crosses a line that can't be justified with free speech.
But nothing happened!
They could still be on-air and not a single social network got rid of them at this point.
Sure, some advertisers might have put them on their blacklist, but that's about it.
What presumably changed things was Jones reaction to what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary
School.
On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his own mother at their Newtown home
before he, packed with a rifle and a handgun, drove to his former school Sandy Hook Elementary
where he fatally shot another 20 children between six and seven years old as well as
six adult staff members before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head.
Two more staff members got injured but survived the incident.
Before the bodies were cold, Alex Jones was already prepared to went on-air to start his
long career of Sandy Hook denialism.
He claimed that the whole shooting was staged in an effort to confiscate American's firearms,
that no one really died and accused all the grieving parents to be crisis actors.
"It took me about a year to with Sandy Hook to come to grip with the fact that the whole
thing was fake.
I mean even I couldn't believe it!
I knew they jumped on it, used the crises, hyped it up, but then I did deep research
- and my gosh - it just pretty much didn't happen."
"The Newtown kids - oh - they take them, put them in our face, tell us their names, who
they were..
I heard an ad this morning on the radio that Bloomberg paid for locally, going: 'I dropped
Billy off and watched him go around the corner, and he never came back.
All because of the guns.
Won't you just turn your guns in for my son?
Why did you do it to him, gun owners?"
Well, obviously there's a lot to unpack here.
But Myles Power and The Crisis Actors Guild already did a much better job debunking it
than I ever could in this short amount of time, so I'll leave links to both of them
in the description below.
Instead I wanna focus on the aftermath of InfoWars claims.
After years of stalking, harassment, death threats and having their addresses and phone
numbers repeatedly shown on InfoWars - or in other words: got doxxed, as cool internet
people like me call it - Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner finally went to court and
filled a defamation lawsuit against Jones, later on joined by the families of eight other
children who died in the Sandy Hook shooting.
With the parents going to the public we could get a closer look at what actually happens
if the InfoWars mob is after you for the first time.
In 2015, Leonard Pozner succeeded in having an Infowars video taken down from Alex Jones's
YouTube channel, which resulted - according to court files - in the following situation:
"Mr. Jones went on an angry rant about me for nearly an hour [...] and also hosted a
call with an obsessed fellow conspiracy theorist who issued a threat to me.
Mr. Jones then showed his audience my personal information and maps to addresses associated
with my family."
The parents of 6-year-old Noah Pozner had to relocate seven times before settling for
a high-security community hundreds of miles from where their son is buried.
The parents claim that each time they moved, InfoWars supporters stalking the family have
published their whereabouts online.
In a recent interview Veronique De La Rosa said: "I would love to go see my son's grave
and I don't get to do that, but we made the right decision"
Now I'd like to remind you that we're not speaking about some loose youtube beef here.
This is not "oh, someone has said a mean thing about me online."
No!
This is grieving parents becoming the target of InfoWars just because they lost their 6-year-old
in a school shooting and being subjected to death threats in consequence, leaving them
unable to see their sons grave ever again.
This puts a lot of pressure on your tech daddys over in silicon valley.
They will be seen as the enablers of such horrifying scenarios and if they don't press
the kill switch of such channels that could be seen as a signal of endorsement on the
outside.
"This type of misinformation is a bit of a societal crisis.
This isn't someone on a soapbox in Times Square spewing nonsense.
It's someone who every day generates income from his demonstrably false utterances." said
Veronique De La Rosa according to court files.
These three cases however aren't isolated examples but InfoWars daily bread to make
some sweet dollars and keep the lucrative show running, while those goofy clips we like
to laugh about for years are a lot less frequent.
Despite all of this Alex Jones and InfoWars could get away with it for years, until social
media companies finally stepped in all together at the beginning of August.
And that's were we are going full circle back to our original question:
Could This Be The Beginning Of Big Tech Companies Getting Rid Of Unpleasant Political Commentators?
It's certainly not and most of us will stay untouched by drastic interventions like this,
because social media companies profit from drama and unpleasant content and that's really
all they care about.
It's profit over everything.
Social Media algorithms are designed in a way to bring up the most attention-seeking
content first all the time.
And what is the most attention-seeking?
It's drama and scandals and religion and politics and conspiracies.
Basically everything that people have really heavy but conflicting feelings about.
It's the same effect that could be witnessed with the rise of tabloids over the last century
that got huge in sales.
The secret behind those.. newspapers was simple: Integrity is secondary.
Sensationalism is the key.
The more overhyped and biased an impression of an event is, the more it drives in new
readers who engage with those stories.
The tactics used in sensationalism include being loud and self-centered, being controversial,
appealing to emotions, intentionally omitting facts and information, deliberately obtuse
and acting to obtain attention.
All of which is an integral part of many online figures, but most of them also don't consider
themselves journalists so that's another case.
But InfoWars does present itself as a news outlet, so it literally is the 21th century
version of a tabloid and profits from the same effects and in extension so do social
media companies hosting InfoWars presents.
They were desperate to keep them despite all that happened before, but there's exactly
one thing that social media companies value more than profit and popularity and that's
their overall image.
They're accountable to their shareholders and business partners first and if something
is threatening their connection to their business partners, they
have to get rid of it.
And in this case it was Alex Jones they had to get rid of.
Could this happen to any of us?
Theoretically, yes.
Social media companies have the power to do so and we should always stay cautious and
criticise them wherever we can.
But in practice they won't do it, because we're all part of their business plan and
suppressing unpopular opinions would not only hurt them financially, but also harm their
overall image as a company.
We're part of a mutual power play and we shouldn't use our power any less than they do, but we
should at least try to get the full picture first before we speak up.
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