Facebook Bans Infowars And Alex Jones Just Months Before Midterms
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Mark Zuckerberg officially banned Infowars and Alex Jones from Facebook on Monday morning, just four months before the midterms.
The move is the latest attempt by Big Tech to use their enormous power to interfere in our elections and try and crush the populist movement which got President Trump elected.
Paul Joseph Watson revealed the news Monday on Twitter:
Facebook has permanently BANNED Infowars.
For unspecified “hate speech”. They didn’t even tell us what the offending posts were.
This sets a chilling precedent for free speech.
To all other conservative news outlets – you are next.
The great censorship purge has truly begun. pic.twitter.com/v7Yo9hI0q3
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Whether you love or loathe Infowars, this now confirms that Big Tech is working with legacy media to silence independent media.
In places like Russia, the government shuts down the press, in America, CNN, Apple and Facebook fulfil that role.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
“But it’s just a private company which can do what it likes”.
No it’s not “just a private company”.
This is a Big Tech monopoly working hand in hand with the establishment media to unfairly silence dissenters.
This is Chinese-style web control. Here and now. In the west.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
If free speech does not include controversial/unpopular/offensive speech, it doesn’t exist.
A society in which free speech doesn’t exist is doomed to collapse into authoritarianism.https://t.co/Vt7OP9kfwa
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Now that Facebook has banned Infowars, it will be very interesting to see which conservative news outlets and commentators speak out and which ones remain complicit in silence.
Whatever you think of Infowars, they’re coming for you next.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Facebook said in a blog post they banned Infowars specifically for their speech:
Confirmation that Facebook banned Infowars because of “language” used to describe “people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants.”
No specific examples were provided.
In other words, if some far-left hysteric in Silicon Valley doesn’t like the words you use, you’re gone. pic.twitter.com/gsk3rhaLKy
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
It’s also really nice how Facebook blocks you from communicating with your own friends and family in private messages. Such a heartwarming feature. pic.twitter.com/SIjlnNMefE
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Infowars says it has been banned by Facebook for unspecified ‘hate speech’. Regardless of the facts in this case, the ability of Facebook to censor rivial publishers is a global anti-trust problem, which along with San Francisco cultural imperialism, reduces political diversity. https://t.co/xb5oY2JHzy
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 6, 2018
The Democrats and CNN have been lobbying Facebook to ban Infowars for months and Zuckerberg did their bidding just before midterms:
A reminder that Facebook banned Infowars after lobbying by both CNN and Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL).
This isn’t “just a private company,” this is political censorship.https://t.co/JHKP1vnQ3k
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Next up; Soros group pressures Facebook to ban people who question global warming. See how slippery this slope can be? pic.twitter.com/FxcoQwTz7l
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
If you’re orgasmically celebrating big business censoring independent media, you’re not a liberal. You’re an authoritarian.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Spotify has now completely banned Infowars too.
Apple, Facebook, Spotify all within 12 hours of each other.
This isn’t enforcement of TOS, it’s coordinated big tech censorship.
This is real election meddling.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
In just the past year, Google and Google-owned YouTube have eliminated virtually all anti-establishment news sites and independent channels from their search results and banned tons of right-wingers from YouTube for their speech.
Twitter has banned tons of right-wingers for their speech, limited right-wingers’ reach and purged right-wingers from their search results.
Apple just purged Alex Jones’s podcasts from iTunes.
Facebook has cut traffic to conservative sites by %93.
Now they’ve outright banned Infowars.
What is this if not an outright declaration of war by Big Tech on President Trump and the supporters who helped get him elected?
Just a few months ago, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted out an article — which he said was a “great read” — that said the US is in a second “civil war” with no “bipartisan way forward” and “one side or the other must win.”
You can tell by Google, Facebook, and Apple’s actions they all believe the same.
We need to demand these sites which have become the public square be regulated as public utilities and forced to respect free speech.
We need to vote Republican in the midterms (even if it’s for RINOs) so Trump can keep his majority and fend off the deep state coup. We’re on the cusp of turning this ship around, taking our country back and making America and the West great again.
Big tech is putting everything on the line and destroying their own platforms just to shut down our populist revolution and it’s clear their short term goal is to help Democrats win the midterms.
We can’t let these America-hating bastards succeed!
