Infowars one strike away from YouTube ban

[Independent voter]

I don't take Alex Jones seriously but there are a lot of people who do. It's really hard to have a conversation with someone who believes wild conspiracy stories.

If I have any qualms at all its that once in a great while these kind of shows get it right but I can't think of an instance where they have gotten right at the moment.

Mostly the theories Alex Jones has gotten strikes for is saying the shooters at these schools were paid agents, something like this is reprehensible.






http://thehill.com/homenews/media/37...om-youtube-ban





Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.

The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting and will temporarily be unable to upload new content.

"This is the second strike applied to your account within three months. As a result, you're unable to post new content to YouTube for two weeks," the alert said. "If there are no further issues, the ability to upload will be automatically restored after this two week period."
Infowars's second strike comes as social media giants like YouTube and Twitter grapple with how to handle extremist or conspiracy theory content.

A channel that receives three strikes from YouTube within three months is banned from the platform. While Infowars has several other ways to promote its videos — including an online radio show, its own website, Twitter and Facebook — a ban would cut Infowars off from its YouTube subscribers, which number more than 2 million.

CNN reported last week that the channel, which is run by host and owner Alex Jones, had received its first strike for promoting a conspiracy theory about the Parkland shooting.

Infowars has referred to the strikes from YouTube as a "CNN lobbying campaign."

The first strike was related to a video targeting Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, titled "David Hogg Can't Remember His Lines In TV Interview," and suggested Hogg and others were paid "crisis actors" instead of actual students who survived the shooting.

The video is no longer on YouTube.

Jones made similar claims after the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn.

[Soulfighter101]

People say the right only gives 'thoughts and prayers'. They're wrong, they (and libertarians, if i'm fair) also offer crazy conspiracies undermining the horrific tragedies mere kids have been through. Why? Who the fuck knows, but i'm glad YouTube is starting to do something about the absolute bullshit posted on their site

[stomination]

People say the right only gives 'thoughts and prayers'. They're wrong, they (and libertarians, if i'm fair) also offer crazy conspiracies undermining the horrific tragedies mere kids have been through. Why? Because the continued sale of semi-automatic firearms, that have no purpose outside the ability to quickly and indiscriminately kill everything in front of you, seem to be more important then the preservation of life.

If anything it's the people with the arsenals who don't trust the government that scare me more than anyone coming from overseas.

Actually its more about getting ppl to view your stuff so you can gain ad revenue or whatever. Which is why we have crazy right wingers and crazy left wingers being marketed to on social media while the rest of us have to put up with it all.

[s_bushido]

It's just going to feed into his and his audience's paranoid delusions.

[Techno-Druid]

Surprised it took them this long.

[Moralgy]

Inb4 someone says the libural media is trying to silence "good conservatives just speaking the truth".

When did this suspension of uploading content go into effect? The channel uploaded a video 1 minute ago.

[derpkitteh]

i hope it doesn't get banned.

the memes it spawns are amazing

[tyrlaan]

The guy has admitted he makes shit up and people still take his word as gospel... /smdh

[Yunru]

If this guy gets banned, then Trump will be very un-happy.

He wont be missed.

[Vankrys]

The guy has admitted he makes shit up and people still take his word as gospel... /smdh

it's the gullible people that should be banned from youtube, ...somehow
Seriously, that jones character is unwatchable, he yells, he's angry, he's freaking cringy, and he try to plug atrocious products.

[Rhaide]

Actually its more about getting ppl to view your stuff so you can gain ad revenue or whatever. Which is why we have crazy right wingers and crazy left wingers being marketed to on social media while the rest of us have to put up with it all.

Agreed, and I find it annoying that this has to be pointed out to people like the person you're replying to. Everyone loves to believe their camp is infallible, or at most many will often say, "Yes, but THEY are worse!".

I can't stand the pseudo-intellectual grandstanding and unqualified discourse fillibustering trying to justify itself from some imaginary high ground.

OT: Infowars is insane.

[Ifeanychukwu]

I believe Alex Jones had said somewhere that he plays somewhat of a character but he is still definitely crazy. Not much to be said for him though considering he's claimed in the past that the Columbine shooting was a hoax and that the families of the victims were paid shills or some such crazy shit.

[Travis B]

Maybe he and the white nationalist moron who got banned from Twitter can get together and start their own video streaming service devoted to all the nutjobs out there.

[derpkitteh]

Maybe he and the white nationalist moron who got banned from Twitter can get together and start their own video streaming service devoted to all the nutjobs out there.

there actually is a new competitor to youtube that says it values free speech.

i can't remember the name of it, but it's mostly filled with racists right now. but, if that's the price, i'm willing to pay it. everyone should be able to hold their own ideals and speak them freely.

[Puupi]

there actually is a new competitor to youtube that says it values free speech.

i can't remember the name of it, but it's mostly filled with racists right now. but, if that's the price, i'm willing to pay it. everyone should be able to hold their own ideals and speak them freely.

What does free speech have to do with this?

Youtube (Google) is a private entity, they can monitor everything that goes through their services.

[Afrospinach]

Not gonna lie, I am kind of awed by this guy. He is so fluid and complicit with his bullshit it is mesmerizing to watch.

I don't know why promoting conspiracy theories is so threatening TBH.

[Dezerte]

I must admit I liked the Clinton/jar opening-meme.

[derpkitteh]

What does free speech have to do with this?

Youtube (Google) is a private entity, they can monitor everything that goes through their services.

i would force some companies to abide by free speech laws. facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. places that have become something akin to going out and socializing at a bar or something.

free speech much be an absolute right.

[ManiaCCC]

i would force some companies to abide by free speech laws. facebook, twitter, youtube, etc. places that have become something akin to going out and socializing at a bar or something.

free speech much be an absolute right.

Buddy, just educate yourself what free speech is.

Also free speech =/= free of consequences.

[Stormdash]

No discussion of Alex Jones should do without this video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEoCg4737LU