Alex Jones & Infowars permanently banned from Twitter

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Twitter on Thursday announced it had banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platform as well as the account of Infowars, the website he operates.

“Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” the social network said.

“We took this action based on new reports of Tweets and videos posted yesterday that violate our abusive behavior policy, in addition to the accounts’ past violations.”

The announcement came a day after President Donald Trump’s administration warned of a possible legal crackdown on big technology companies over competition or political bias, a bombshell announcement that came as social media executives were defending their policies before lawmakers.

The Justice Department statement appeared to escalate a war between the administration and Silicon Valley after a series of attacks by Trump claiming tech firms were biased against conservatives.

The suggestions of legal or regulatory action caught many tech industry observers by surprise and came as lawmakers were holding hearings on foreign influence campaigns on social media and “transparency.”

Twitter had previously resisted calls to ban Jones, though it prevented him from posting on his account for a week last month.

Jones is best known for disputing the veracity of the September 11 attacks, the Sandy Hook school massacre and other events. He had almost 900,000 followers on Twitter before he was banned.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/twitte ... lex-jones/

Maybe Facebook is next.

Could Twitter possibly ban the other great liar, Agent Orange?
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Re: Alex Jones & Infowars permanently banned from Twitter

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Alex Jones deliberately pushed stories viral that he KNEW were fake and KNEW would hurt innocent people, both financially and physically.
IOW, it wasn't opinions, it met the legal definitions (AFAIK), of both Libel and Slander. Any privately owned public media is perfectly within its rights to refuse to be party to libel or slander, IMHO.
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