Welp!
Alex Jones and his conspiracy-peddling InfoWars has been banned from Facebook, Spotify, Apple, and YouTube!
In a statement to CNBC, Google said of the sudden YouTube ban:
“All users agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines when they sign up to use YouTube. When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts.”
“Repeatedly” being the key word here for those wondering what he did all of a sudden.
He may have finally hit the bullshit tipping point today, but he’s been promoting horrible ideas for years. Here are 5 of the worst:
1. Sandy Hook Was A Hoax
“Yeah, so, 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.”
This is the one that will be on Alex’s tombstone.
Jones pushed for years the conspiracy theory that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown in 2012 was a government conspiracy theory.
His position evolved from saying the grieving parents you saw on TV were actors paid by the government to really sell it to later saying no children ever really died.
Some parents who have suffered harassment at the hands of Jones’ fans recently filed a defamation suit against him for it.
2. Hillary Clinton Is A Murderer Who Runs A Pedophile Ring
“When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has personally murdered and chopped up and raped, I have zero fear standing up against her. Yeah, you heard me right. Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children. I just can’t hold back the truth anymore.”
WTF was he talking about in that video (that was viewed half a million times before it was deleted)? #Pizzagate.
Jones was the most widely heard pusher of the completely ludicrous conspiracy theory which was first created during the 2016 election.
The idea? Hillary Clinton and other Democrats aren’t just wrong on issues, they’re actually running a child sex slave ring. The base of operations? A pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.
Apparently theorists said “cheese pizza” was code for “child pornography.” Yeah, clever. Except EVERYONE ORDERS A FUCKING CHEESE PIZZA AT A PIZZA PARLOR!
You’re telling us they’re trying to keep this thing a secret but every single birthday party that comes in is unknowingly ordering 4 pepperoni and 6 CHILD PORN TAPES??
What, did the mothers just get the child porn and go, “OH, didn’t expect that but OK” and quietly hide it in their purse?
This nonsensical theory was so popular that after Jones urged fans to “go investigate it for yourself” one actually did — by holding the place hostage with a rifle demanding someone show him the children.
Jones later backtracked, presumably to distance himself from the real-life consequences of his words and said he believed the conspiracy theory itself was a “distraction” from Clinton’s other crimes, which were even worse than murdering children.
For real, that was his backtrack. At least he apologized.
3. The Orlando Shooting Was Planned By The Government
We guess Jones realized it was too difficult to sell the idea that no shooting actually occurred, so by the time the Pulse Nightclub shooting happened he just went with the old conspiracy theorist standby: the government is behind it.
Why?? Oh, because Barack Obama wanted to take everyone’s guns and, as Jones put it, to pass “hate laws to deal with right-wingers” — and a big, manufactured massacre was a good way to stir up anti-gun sentiment.
So the people against gun violence are BEHIND the gun violence they want to stop?
Ah, see, to understand this theory you have to realize the given premise — Democrats don’t want to stop gun violence, they want to take away guns so the people won’t be able to overthrow the government.
(This crap made more sense before Harrier jets were a thing.)
4. The Government Can Control The Weather And Uses It As A Weapon
Yep. Jones thinks that Gerard Butler movie is a documentary.
In 2013, Jones said the government “can create and steer groups of tornadoes”:
“Of course there’s weather weapon stuff going on — we had floods in Texas like fifteen years ago, killed thirty-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force.”
This one is particularly pernicious; imagine your loved one died in a horrible storm. Times are bad enough — then comes this guy to tell you, NO! YOUR GRANDMA WAS MURDERED! BY OBAMA!
Sadly, people believed it.
Notice that the government works way more efficiently in Jones’ mind? Wonder why Donald Trump somehow gets a pass?
It’s because he’s part of the club!
Trump is a conspiracy theorist himself, pushing the Birther conspiracy and cheering on Jones. So Jones returns the favor.
5. Jones Admitted He’s A Fucking Liar Via His Lawyer
Jones went through a bitter divorce, and during the custody battle his ex-wife used some of his own horrible statements to show he shouldn’t be allowed around their children.
In court documents, Jones admitted through his lawyer that he was merely “playing a character” on his show, implying he didn’t really believe that stuff — that it’s just “humor” and “sarcasm.”
He even said he was a “performance artist.”
This may be the most fucked up thing. Why? Because it proves he’s not some easily duped guy confused by all the news coming and going.
He’s not trying to make sense of it all.
He’s selling lies that hurt people, and he knows it. If not, then was that whole divorce defense a falsehood?
Yes, we have freedom of speech in this country, but we also have responsibility of speech. The things he’s saying have actually encouraged his audience to do harm, and there’s evidence of it.
And that’s why he’s been given the boot.
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