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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.
Maybe because people didn’t want her to go to prison. Do you really think justice is equal for everyone? Like I’ve said before on here, equality is a figment of people’s imaginations. It doesn’t exist and never will. Nobody wants to be equal, especially financially. Back to the main point though, she is above the common man and everyone (but you apparently) knows it.
 
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.

Let me try to break it down into a bite size nugget for you and get away from your deflection to Hillary topics.

You have opinion A, I have opinion B. We can agree to disagree and/or debate it publicly. Now, if I believe opinion A is wrong, start a media platform and claim that you're a Nazi lizard person who is stealing babies and devouring them in an attempt to incite violence against you, get you fired from your employer, or worse claim you murdered and ate your own deceased child that would be a problem for you now wouldn't it?

This is what Alex Jones did. He made up lies on his platform that had real world ramifications. He should suffer the consequences of his actions.
 
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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.
You sound like the wimpy kid that jumps up and down when he tattles on someone.

And yes, military personnels’ life is quite important to me, especially when they don’t get the justice they deserve after their superior negligently ignores them. You are disgusting to think anything otherwise. But apparently hating the military and siding with Hillary in this case is the popular thing nowadays. Absolutely disgusting.
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Let me try to break it down into a bite size nugget for you and get away from your deflection to Hillary topics.

You have opinion A, I have opinion B. We can agree to disagree and/or debate it publicly. Now, if I believe opinion A is wrong, start a media platform and claim that you're a Nazi lizard person who is stealing babies and devouring them in an attempt to incite violence against you, get you fired from your employer, or worse claim you murdered and ate your own deceased child that would be a problem for you now wouldn't it?

This is what Alex Jones did. He made up lies on his platform that had real world ramifications. He should suffer the consequences of his actions.
Hmm ok. Fine. Ban Alex. You have a point.

Now, how about Antifa? ISIS recruiters? Why are they allowed to keep their voice online? Shouldn’t they be banned too? Oh wait they’re brave protesters (who vandalize cities and injure people).
 
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But they removed a Civil War game because the Confederate side had their actual flag. That's weird.

That's weird

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Here’s the problem with this situation...

Isn’t it funny that it’s always conservative voices that are quickly silenced and ridiculed from major media companies? I’m not saying liberal voices are never silenced, but you have to admit it is a rarity and catches people by surprise.

If this “silencing” applied equally across the board, which it really shouldn’t happen at all, there would be a different response to this. But that just isn’t the case. It’s biased, it’s favoritism and it’s just ridiculous.
 
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In regards to Alex Jones being the fuel to the fire for his viewers for harassing families, you can’t predict or control people’s actions.

Does anyone on here have the actual audio or footage of Alex directly telling his viewers to attack families, or did his comments just cause a reaction?
 
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The broadcasts on his podcasts and his shows are exactly the same broadcasts. I haven't seen a good reason why the alleged hate speech isn't tolerated on the podcast but is tolerated in the app.
Buzzfeed asked why the policies on apps and podcasts are different, and all the response does is confirm the same .
 
If you’re going to go there, then what do you think of Maxine Waters comments? There are things I disagree with all the time in across the world and I choose to ignore it and focus my time with things appeal to my values. To be honest I never even heard of this until yesterday, I’m just a big Apple fan and hate to see them getting into political issues like this. I just want new tech that makes my life easier.

There is a difference between using a social media platform for promoting hateful and potentially violent rhetoric, and 'comments'. IT's not about free speech.

Apple, Facebook, Spotify, your child's nursery - have a set of rules. If someone runs riot on violating those rules they might need to answer to the consequences.That's what's happened here, and it's right from what I can gather.

Supposedly, free speech means that I can walk into your child's nursery and discuss inappropriate and corrupt 'opinions' with your 4 year old daughter. Because Free Speech. It doesn't make it right, and you would fully expect and be right behind the owners of that social place if they shut me down and probably get me arrested.

There are a lot of kids on Facebook [and the rest of the internet] and Facebook were right to take Jones down. Shouting that he doesn't mean it, or that it's all an act isn't enough. There are a magnitude of idiots in the world who can't tell the difference, and someone in [Jones'] position has to be able to know better, and act responsibly if there's even an oz of satire intended. If this is the case then he needs to polish up his act and serve it on a more adult targeted platform.

Sadly, that ship has sailed here. This isn't satire! It's just a guy chasing click bait and he's probably been sucked into his own silly vortex and actually believes the world he's created.

I suppose the real irony here is that in his own paranoid mind, everything that's happening to him (in the context of this article) is exactly what he'd predicted all along! He probably thinks that it's a conspiracy of conspiracies against him - the truth teller. But the fact is, he's just a nasty little man who couldn't work out how the internet worked, thought he was above moral responsibility, and royally screwed himself.

Fool.
 
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Does anyone on here have the actual audio or footage of Alex directly telling his viewers to attack families, or did his comments just cause a reaction?

He doesn't go as far as that, he did however argue it was all fake and the families were complicit.

As this is the subject of legal action, the evidence will be looked at very closely I'm sure.
 
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?
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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.

A poll on a hypothetical nobody has actually suggested. Great link. /s

A majority of all those polled seemed to agree with Trump and Graham, with 57 percent saying the media was “necessary to keep the Trump administration honest.”

Lol
 
This isn’t over “political speech”. This is outright lies and misinformation. He promotes hate and nut-job conspiracy theories that, among other things, has terrorized grieving families and an innocent pizza restaurant. The man can go f himself for all I care.
What the heck is "hate speech"???
Hate Speech is basically a made up term for anything that Dems, communists, etc don’t like or don’t want other people to hear.
 
From what I heard, he incited crazy right wingers to harass Sandy Hook families. For that he should burn in hell, something I know his type deeply fair.

He didn’t tell anyone to harass Sandy Hook Families.

Oh boy, I see we have a typical Trump-humper on our hands...not really any point in trying to reason with you, then.

For what its worth, you seem to have entirely ignored everything I said in favor of a rant against the "MSM," which shouldn't come as much of a surprise since its the entirely of the Republican playbook.

I think you missed the point of his post. And if you want you can come bark at me with the same nonsense you posted, cause I hate republicans and enjoy a good online debate.
 
“If you cut off a mans tongue, you aren’t proving him a liar. You’re just proving you’re afraid of what he may say.”

For anyone celebrating platforms silencing someone over political speech, you will have no ground to stand on when invariably someone goes after your political speech.

To me, labeling something as “hate speech” is just a poor attempt at trying to stifle free speech. Granted these are private companies not the government, but their oligopoly on media distribution makes them picking and choosing who they’ll silence worrisome.

How would you react if Joseph Goebbels re-appeared and started advocating having all Jews rounded up? How about Andrew Jackson having a podcast he used to advocate wiping out the native Americans? How about William Simmons--does he get a podcast to incite the killings of Blacks? There are limits to "free speech" which was adopted during the Enlightenment to permit speakers to use their reasoning ability to organize society for the benefit of more people, and to reduce the arbitrary edicts of monarchs. When someone starts fomenting hate against a religion, race, or immigrant, it's no longer speech intended to make a better society, but just an outlet for blind hatred. Sometimes the best antidote for hate speech is more freedom of speech; sometimes the best antidote is a muzzle.
 
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I don’t get these freedom of speech references. He’s a lier spreading hate speech and his usage of new media gets him lots of followers. Cut him off and let him yell in his basement or some dark corner of the Internet. Don’t give him a platform on YouTube, the App Store or Podcast. Lots of Americans are very gullible and will believe anything, especially right wing nutters who want to re-elect Trump.

Cutting him of is not restricting his freedom of speech, it’s putting him on his rightful position in society: the basement.
 
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He doesn't go as far as that, he did however argue it was all fake and the families were complicit.

As this is the subject of legal action, the evidence will be looked at very closely I'm sure.
If he did not send people to harass the families, he cannot be held responsible for that. Any reasonable person would not automatically take that course of action.
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I don’t get these freedom of speech references. He’s a lier spreading hate speech and his usage of new media gets him lots of followers. Cut him off and let him yell in his basement or some dark corner of the Internet. Don’t give him a platform on YouTube, the App Store or Podcast. Lots of Americans are very gullible and will believe anything, especially right wing nutters who want to re-elect Trump.

Cutting him of is not restricting his freedom of speech, it’s putting him on his rightful position in society: the basement.
Hate speech is *subjective*.

Do you realize how dumb you sound? Reread your comment. Cutting him off EXPLICITLY restricts his freedom of speech.

And, those who want Trump re-elected are not insane or gullible. Why are you quick to assume things? In fact, you are projecting hate speech on Trump voters, so I want you banned from this forum.

See the problem with your reasoning?
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I wonder how you would feel if someone was standing on the street outside your house screaming that they were going to kill you and everyone you know. Something tells me you wouldn't just "let them speak their mind"... you'd call the proper authorities and have that person removed.
Tbh they’d get tired and leave eventually. Lunatics like that aren’t worth the time. And, most people don’t even follow through with their own actions after they realize the work involved to do something like that. Humans are lazy. And emotional. And irriational. Chances are, that lunatic outside would get run over before he ever picks up a gun.

That’s my answer.

(Side note: Alex isn’t causing a clear and present danger unlike the lunatic outside my door. The lunatic is threatening murder, which in of itself is a crime. Duscussing conspiracy theories and lying, while tasteless, isn’t a crime.)
 
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I love this, AJ is a nut but that is besides the point. The Liberal Gestapo is getting the lights on them.

No guns because they kill, but killing innocent children in the womb is good. No terrorism, but Soros sponsored antifa-terrorism is good. Freedom of speech, but only for the liberals. Promote LBGT all over society, now including pedophilia.

People are waking up, we see you "liberals", for what you are. You are self worshiping brainless proselytes of the globalist agenda for enslaving humanity.
 
Here’s the problem with this situation...

Isn’t it funny that it’s always conservative voices that are quickly silenced and ridiculed from major media companies? I’m not saying liberal voices are never silenced, but you have to admit it is a rarity and catches people by surprise.

If this “silencing” applied equally across the board, which it really shouldn’t happen at all, there would be a different response to this. But that just isn’t the case. It’s biased, it’s favoritism and it’s just ridiculous.

Hey what if conservatism is wrong
 
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You obviously know nothing about him as this is 100% false... He questioned the main stream narrative and that should be 100% allowed.

Here’s a direct quote from Alex Jones:

"Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured. I couldn’t believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids. And it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors. I mean they even ended up using photos of kids killed in mass shootings here in a fake mass shooting in Turkey -- so yeah, or Pakistan. The sky is now the limit."

This is vile and shame on anyone defending this guy. Apple has every right to decline to circulate this filth.
 
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In the last few years the alt-right has experienced a huge surge, but recently there has been a massive purge all over the internet by "dark forces". This is just the tip of the iceberg.

1. Liveleak used to have some sort of freedom of speech in the comment section, not anymore, everything is heavily modded down now.

2. Stormfront was effectively deleted from the internet (DNS records removed). The only way to access it now is by adding an entry to your etc/hosts.

3. Any other smaller forums where there was some sort of freedom of speech, they are heavily moderated down now.

4. The whole Alex Jones fiasco, even though he is not as extreme as i.e. the comment section of liveleak or stormfront.

5. Twitter & facebook removing alt-righters: Milo, Paul Joseph-Watson, etc.

6. The creation / popularisation / pushing down your throat of a bunch of new opposing official media channels (Huffington, Vice, etc.).

7. Pushing the agenda in all new TV shows, super hero movies, etc.

These dark forces want you to go back to listening to the official policies of your government and to tackle the alt-right far-right surge and it's been happening in all fronts where people was able to speak freely. (Think about the sort of stuff people discuss in bars vs what the official media portrays).

It is a massive attack in all fronts, whether you can see it or not.
 
That implies that CNN lies, which I haven’t seen any evidence of. They may be bad at reporting, but they don’t lie and they are better than Fox.
CNN doesn’t report the truth. Ex: Tuesday’s elections. Not a single video on the topic was posted on their site. Why? Because trump won. Trust me if any of the states republicans would have lost CNN would be all over it.
 
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