Alex Jones is a fringe lunatic who peddles hate, anger, conspiracy, and illogical statements. I’m glad people like him are banned. Some would argue that some on the left (antifa) also are hate groups. Some say that tech is censoring conservatism. With that I disagree. Breitbart is alive and well, as is daily wire, Fox News, and many other right wing outlets. However they don’t (overall) peddle hate, anger, and conspiracy to the levels of Alex Jones. I don’t see Steve Bannon or Ben Shapiro wearing reptilian masks and going on and about gay frogs.
Reptilian masks? Gay frogs? Wait, what? What have I been missing?
That sounds like that kind of stuff I would have seen a couple of years ago when I used an HTC 10 as my daily driver for awhile. Their default news app was mostly promoting very tabloidy stuff. A lot of it was very traumatic dehumanizing articles that dwelled on the most reprehensible side of humanity, like cases of extreme child and animal torture.
I was actually glad to go back to iPhone and curated news if that barrage of brutality and weirdness was the alternative.
But I admit sometimes I do miss the really weird (non violent) stuff, like the nonstop parade of Nibiru articles. Clearly, if I don’t know about reptilian masks and gay frogs I’ve been missing something interesting.
I don’t really know what Alex Jones said or did to get himself banned as he did. I heard a huge part was what he has been saying about Sandy Hook. If he’s been promoting Sandy Hook denials, then I suppose that would do it.
I understand what a false flag is, but people have to understand that it’s easy to deny something if you’re just reading or hearing about it over the internet.
For example lately in my web meanderings, I’ve seen people vehemently deny now that anyone actually died in 9-11. They’re either too young to remember it or too geographically remote from it. My husband’s friend lost a brother in it and my husband lost a childhood friend. Hearing people claim it was some elaborate hoax and nobody died just astounds me. It’s incredibly offensive to those of us who know the truth that yes, real people actually died. Everyone can debate all they like about how and why, but don’t deny that truth that people died. What’s more, it’s a horrific distortion of history.
I can’t imagine how the Sandy Hook families must feel hearing their painful loss called some kind of hoax and that they’re all actors. Jeez.
I don’t care much for censorship but I can see why Tim Cook, being as conscious of Apple’s image as he is, would be concerned about Apple allowing something that false and hurtful to proliferate and morph into something dangerous to innocent people.