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The video that got him banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne_wFdA-1oU


Lol, and the video was all about how the left censors people!

Seriously, I never gave Alex Jones much credence before this, but this getting him banned makes him much more credible in my mind.


I see it less about the left censoring people and more about a grown man harassing a journalist by hurling abuse at his face for 10 minutes straight (whilst invading his personal space with a camera), and topping it off with a racist anti semitic dog whistle comment about his eyes. The guy being, for lack of a better word, bullied in the video took it exceptionally well.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.


Yes, the bullying was uncalled for.

And what this has done has motivated me to look further into who Alex Jones is, and reversed my opinion back to him being a scumbag. Seems he is only a few ratings away from going full Holocaust denial in his mission to doubt all official accounts of anything.


He's an absolute, frothing-at-the-mouth nut job. It makes me sad how many people listen to him.


It is partly the fault of the established media that they make his message of censorship believable.


>this getting him banned makes him much more credible in my mind

Not to just be mean, but taken without further elaboration, this looks like petty contrarianism. It reminds me of the disturbing, poisonous following that so-called "banned" TED talks get from conspiracy-minded people based on nothing but the fact that it was banned. I'd like it if you'd elaborate more on what made you say it.


It feeds into the narrative that the major media outlets censor messages that point out their flaws, in a very self referential manner.


Just because you disagree with Twitter, it doesn't mean you have to start agreeing with Alex :/. That is a logical fallacy.


It's not just about disagreeing with Twitter, but the ban fits into his diatribe.


This gets me even more worried about the people that still follow him.

How can you say the words he said to that journalist and still have that big following? We have a huge information, media and education problem all over the globe, because similar things are happening in EU. Twitter just did the right thing, shutting one of the channel he had to insult, humiliate and contaminate brains of people with fake news.




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