For the last week or two, websites have put on a ban on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. He does a show called InfoWars and Facebook, YouTube, and a few other websites have banned him from putting his content on them. Recently Twitter suspended him for a week even though they were not immediate in doing what other sites were doing. I think this websites trying to stop him from spreading misinformation.
I think the reason, and it probably has been said in articles, is because of Sandy Hook. For those who don't know, that was the December 2012 shooting that took the lives of 20 people, including a number of kindergarten kids. Jones believed that was all staged and recently, has been sued by a number of families for the misinformation. So now, with battling custody of kids, he has to battle people he mocked and made lies of.
While this might piss off Trump, which it has, these websites are scared of Jones. What do I mean by that? This guy is more dangerous than Trump or any other person that runs a country. Like anything, he has share of fans, including the extreme nut job ones that believe every little thing that comes out of his mouth. Combined with the Sandy Hook lawsuits, the websites I believe are tired of the shtick and probably any complaints they've been getting and looked into the material. I don't think this is a political matter, but more so the deranged mentality of Jones.
By the time this blog is done, Jones will be a few days away from getting his Twitter back. He'll get back to doing his thing and whatever else he has intended to do. I hope websites will keep giving him the ban. It's about time they stand up to somebody.
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