Why lunatics like Alex Jones should not be banned

How is it that Apple, YouTube and Facebook banned Infowars on the same day? Is it possible the tech giants are band together to ban people they don't agree with?

Look, Alex Jones, who heads Infowars, is a conspiracy theory moron and a disgusting human being. I dislike the way he comes across; I dislike the garbage he spouts, but I like the First Amendment a lot more than I dislike Jones.

Facebook unpublished four of Jones' pages for "repeated violations of community standards," the company said Monday, without defining with clarity what the hell they were talking about.

Then YouTube terminated his account after he continued appearing in videos despite a 90-day ban from the company. Spotify also removed all of one of his podcasts for "hate content". They didn't explain what hate content is, but apparently it's anything the left disagrees with and wants banned.

Sarah Jeong is a racist just hired by the New York Times for its editorial staff. She has said horrible, anti-white, anti-cop, and anti-white woman statements on Twitter and was never banned for her hateful rhetoric.

But when Candace Owens, a conservative black woman, substituted the word 'white' with 'black' using Jeong's own tweets, Owens was banned from the website until conservatives voiced strong complaints and she was reinstated.

To rectify the situation, Twitter claimed they made a mistake by banning Owens. That was as feeble an excuse as Jeong's was when she claimed she received racist remarks on Twitter and countered those remarks with her own racist remarks.

If you believe that, you've got to be a liberal.

Have you noticed that leftist mistakes only go in one direction? Has anyone seen The New York Times or CNN make a "mistake" in favor of President Trump?

Removing speech one doesn't like or agree with is dangerous to the freedoms of this country. If you do it with Jones, you will not stop if you know you've gotten away with it. The First Amendment wasn't made to protect speech we like--it was made to protect speech we don't like. And the best way to deal with speech we don't like is with more speech, obviously.

But like a certain religion that will go unnamed, leftism cannot tolerate good debate because it's a weak ideology.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, Apple or any tech giant, should not be the arbiters of what is considered acceptable speech.

As mentioned, Jones is a disgusting person who has even gone so far as to claim the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax and the children were all actors, to give merely one example of his conspiracy theory claims, but he should be viewed as the idiot he is and be allowed to show how big an idiot on Inforwars, as long as nobody is threatened with violence or that violence is called for by Jones.

The left is losing its collective mind and our rights are about to take a serious hit.

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