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Facebook and YouTube aren’t even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban

Facebook and YouTube aren’t even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban

5 years ago
Anonymous $L9wC17otzH

https://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2019/01/11/facebook-and-youtube-arent-even-trying-to-enforce-the-alex-jones-ban/

After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, it appeared that we’d be rid of his half-baked conspiracy theories once and for all. Or, that’s what we thought, anyway.

Following multiple “strikes” for content that violated its terms of service, YouTube permanently removed Alex Jones’ InfoWars channel last October. Gone are thousands of hours of archived content, more than 2.5 million subscribers, and the ranting diatribes of the internet’s most marketable villain — now that Martin Shkreli has stepped out of the public eye while appealing a seven year prison sentence, anyway.