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Apple Confirms Infowars App Won't Be Removed From App Store
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US media is going China way. Suppressing other side's voice. You may agree or disagree with the opinion, but you don't remove them. It's ridiculous.
You obviously know nothing about him as this is 100% false... He questioned the main stream narrative and that should be 100% allowed.
The new "progressive socialists" are really showing their true colors - silencing those who they disagree with.
He said that people who claimed their children were murdered by the gunmen were part of an evil conspiracy and were actors. This is inherently inciting of all sorts of horrible ****, all so Alex Jones can make a buck. It's disgusting, nor is Apple under any obligation to allow his garbage on their platforms. They don't allow porn on the app store last time I checked, and that's less harmful on most levels than Alex Jones.
I'm actually offended they haven't removed this garbage from the app store as well as podcasts -- how can vile lying evil hate speech not defy the terms of the App Store, when a game was removed for a confederate flag? Give me a break.
The left is always trying to shut down things they don't like. My favorite is the public speaking engagements at public universities. What are you so afraid of? Don't download the app. The pendulum will swing back at some point and you're not going to like it.
And the real issue no one is discussing:
https://www.huffpostbrasil.com/entry/alex-jones-first-amendment_us_5b6d9b57e4b0530743c95939
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When did this become about the media? Nothing revolving around infowars is media related.
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A couple of points here. First being, this current issue isn't about the left or the right but about private companies and their rules that they have setup and the violations of those rules.
Second, if you're against this, should we assume you're also against this?
http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ublicans-think-trump-should-have-authority-to
Forty-three percent of Republicans think President Trump “should have the authority to close news outlets engaged in bad behavior,” while only 36 percent disagreed with the statement, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday.
His fear mongering and lies enabled idiots to attack families of dead children by inciting violence through imaginary conspiracies to bolster sales for his swag. He can rot in whatever afterlife he believes in.
What you heard? From MSNBC or did you do any research?
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You mock that 43% number yet every liberal here wants censorship.
No, he accused the parents of children that were murdered of being "crisis actors" and that they never had children and incited his followers who harassed these poor grieving families. He has shown 0 remorse for them to this day. It takes a special kind of evil person to do that. He can rot in hell.
Obviously that's factually wrong, as a liberal I don't want censorship and to claim all other liberals want it too just makes you look ignorant. Also pointing out that link does not equate mocking.
It's not that people disagree with him, its that what he says and does disagrees with the facts and common decency. Jones is a despicable human being and doesn't deserve the platform he already has. He should be yelling on the street corner with the other nut-jobs.
And they should remove all Hillary Clinton media also after the crimes she’s committed and gotten away with (I’d venture to say Benghazi is equally if not worse than the Sandy Hook incident).
See the precedent you’re setting?
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It’s a subjective concept. In other words, it should not be grounds for removing content. Anyone can claim anything is hate speech.
False equivalency. Is Clinton saying things like "I want him literally shot dead, metaphorically speaking" in reference to Trump? Don't think so, it's comments like and others that that get Jones into trouble. Apple and others didnt remove his stuff because of crimes he's accused of either.
A lot of it can be subjective, some of it can be pretty much accepted as universal. At the end of the day the sites in question decide what is or isn't acceptable for them. By Jones using their services, he is agreeing to those terms.
She hasn't committed any crimes. She has been investigated by people who would love to catch her in any little thing and even they found nothing to pin on her. Also, he's a despicable human being and she isn't.
I find it very difficult to split hairs so finely that the podcast was hate speech but the app, which provides the same content through proxy, is not removable-worthy.
Infowars is being removed for the same reason ISIS recruiting and propaganda videos are removed from platforms, there are a lot of impressionable, easily manipulated, and stupid people in the world that act on these "opinions" and do harm.
I agree and think Apple should ban the apps too. They are they helping this man slander victims of violent crime and making them targets of further violent crimes.
How about siccing his insane followers on the grieving parents of a dead toddler, who they accuse of being “crisis actors”, and harassing these poor bereaved people to the point where they need to move multiple times. Does that bother you?
Or how about inciting a shooting at a random pizza parlor with insane conspiracy theory crap that he knowingly peddles to the mentally disturbed? Does that bother you?
This world is so screwed. Thank you, Apple, for making a slight gesture to maintain human decency and stop the violence.
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Good? That sounds like an Alex Jones problem, not an Apple problem. Stop trying to force private companies to host hateful nonsense that has demonstrably incited violence.
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Congrats, this is actually the worst thing I’ve read on the internet all day. Disgusting.
Why are his followers that stupid that they can’t find his website? Oh wait...
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Playing lawyer on the internet rarely turns out well.
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You can think that but Republicans spent millions of dollars and years of valuable congressional time and came up with wait for it... nothing. Thinking she committed crimes and you actually having proof, then use that unproven thinking to censor someone is so American to the typical Trump supporter. Not to mention Killing kids in the USA is just like a terrorist attack in a foreign country that killed people who knew the risks? Wow.
It doesn’t matter if you think it’s lies and misinformation. It’s still speech. We have a first amendment to say controversial things not to talk about the weather.
I think cnn spreads a lot of lies and misinformation and a “nutjob conspiracy theory” that Russia stole the election. I guess if platforms started banning CNN videos and articles you’d be ok with it too? Same principles apply (as in some people don’t like what they had to say).
Because people have different opinions and even can’t agree on what true or not the best solution is to let everyone say what they wanna say and let the audience decide. It’s how a vibrant community should work.
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