Twitter finally banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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  1. Durandal

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    In this regard, speech freedumb becomes like gun freedumb. Some people just have to take it too far and cause problems.
     
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    That all depends, some on the PF are active donors while others are past donors while the rest never have donated.

    Kinda like taxes, 55% of Americans pay individual income taxes while 45% don't and guess who uses more in government services ?
     
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    No, they don't. Maybe you are thinking of Instagram, which FB does own.
     
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  5. Max Rockatansky

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    Hypothetical situations are fun, but also infinite. What if Alex Jones was caught screwing a dead Russian hooker, would you still support him? See how that works? Hypothetical. It can go on forever.
     
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    Twitter is a private business and has every right, legally and morally, to set Terms of Service for their members. Members who get a FREE medium to post their views, by the way. I thought Jones and his peeps were against free rides?
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    A donor is not a paying customer. Being a donor doesn't allow you special rights or the ability to violate the TOS. Even if Jones donated one of his many millions to Twitter, that doesn't buy him the right to spread hate in violation of the rules. It might buy him (or a PF donor) a little lenience, but if all warnings are disregarded, anyone can be banned.

    Nice straw man and goal post moving with taxes. Since you're listed as a "past donor" then using your own example you are now part of the 45%.
     
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    Jones LOVES getting banned!!!

    that way he can yell and scream about how we live in an evil, Prison Planet!!!!!

    ;)
     
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    Could be. I only really use FB. Tried twitter for awhile, but never "got it". I guess I'm getting old.
     
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    Agreed he loves it. Dumbasses will rally about his faux persona like dumbasses rally around Kaepernick. Both of them play the suckers for money; Jones as a fake conspiracy theorist and Kaepernick as a fake black man.
     
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    I rarely use either. TANSTAAFL
     
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    What's this got to do with a free lunch?
     
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    The problem is that they claim to be unbiased. They're not openly anti-conservative.
     
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    Did the baker have a sign that said he wouldn't bake gay people's cakes? No he didn't. They hid their bias from the public while it served their purpose.
     
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    Do we know how the offending video violates the terms? Apparently it showed Jones harassing a reporter, but he wasn't using twitter to DO the harassing, so I don't understand what the problem was. Unless the video contained offensive content, which I can't see that it would.
     
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    Don't worry about it. You wouldn't understand.
     
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    The baker is certainly now openly Christian and makes his point clear, after the incident. Twitter on the other hand, after this incident, are not openly anti conservative and biased.
     
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    Are you banned from Twitter?
     
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    One of the largest hate groups in America who spreads hate and fear in the SPLC, The SPLC Twitter account is up and running.

    Antifa who resorts to physical violence and have assaulted more people and caused more property damage than all of the Neo-nazis, KKK and white supremist combined. Antifa Twitter accounts are up and running.
     
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    There are tons of conservative s on Twitter
     
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    Bolded part is incorrect. Antifa needs a long way to go before they beat that group.

    As for the bias, I think it is a soft bias. As in the people who handle the violations and stuff trend liberal, so they are more likely to minimize the rule breaks on their side and maximize the others. So while the company may have designed the rules to be neutral and intend to be neutral that is why enforcement doesn't appear to be. Of course we can all go back and forth on who side is getting better calls on a given platform, football game, etc. We will tend to project negative items on our 'side' as attacks and negative to the other side as 'just' or 'fair'. My issue with twitter and FB is that they have TOS that is opaque and not handled evenhandedly.
     
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    Dude, get a grip please. The SPLC isn't a "hate group".

    As for AntiFa, yes, they do, but unless they are breaking the TOS, I can see why Twitter allows them just like they allow David Duke and Richard B. Spencer. You follow them, don't you?
     
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    I don't know the details myself. What I do know is Twitter has banned someone for life for what I understand is content they don't like.

    I haven't read that the content showed people being killed or maimed, or contained child porn or anything like that.

    I checked to see if alt-left conspiracy sites like DailyKos and ThinkProgress still have open access to Twitter, and last I checked, they do. While haven't spent any real time on InfoWars, I do get multiple updates from both Kos and ThinkProg, and I don't see any difference.
     
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    Then you don't understand the situation. Let me help you via Fox News:

    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/09/06/alex-jones-infowars-permanently-suspended-by-twitter.html
    Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope. 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. https://t.co/gckzUAV8GL

    — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018

    .....
    We will continue to evaluate reports we receive regarding other accounts potentially associated with @realalexjones or @infowars and will take action if content that violates our rules is reported or if other accounts are utilized in an attempt to circumvent their ban.

    — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) September 6, 2018
     
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    Don't you know that the SPLC is just another arm of the Kosher mafia. It's why the Jew mafia owned media quotes the anti-American fifth columnist traitors in the SPLC in their papers all of the time.
     

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