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Via: johnrussell • 8 years ago • 6 comments

Podcast Platform Stitcher Drops Alex Jones' Infowars

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While Facebook, YouTube and Spotify have taken down a handful of videos and podcast episodes from Alex Jones' pages, Stitcher has now gone a step further, removing his entire podcast from its platform. Last night on Twitter, the company said that it had reviewed Jones' podcasts and "found he has, on multiple occasions, harassed or allowed harassment of private individuals and organizations." Stitcher also noted that Jones' targeted harassment -- which has been directed towards parents of Sandy Hook victims and students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, among others -- has led his listeners "to engage in similar harassment and other damaging activity." Because of these actions, it said it would remove Jones' podcasts from the Stitcher platform.

and that harassment has led listeners of the show to engage in similar harassment and other damaging activity. Therefore, we have decided to remove his podcasts from the Stitcher platform. (2/2)
— Stitcher (@Stitcher) August 3, 2018

Last week, YouTube removed four of Jones' videos from his channel for violating its community guidelines. It also issued his channel a strike. Receiving three strikes within a 90-day period results in the termination of a channel. And though Facebook was heavily criticized for choosing to keep up a video in which Jones calls special counsel Robert Mueller a child rapist and pantomimes shooting him, it later removed four videos from his page and issued him a 30-day suspension . Earlier this week, after facing mounting pressure to remove Jones' podcast from its platform, Spotify took down multiple episodes for violating its hate content policy, but didn't remove the podcast itself.

Alex Jones is currently facing multiple lawsuits over his defamatory statements against the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

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Professor Principal

1 seeder JohnRussell 8 years ago

Not that big of a deal, since Jones garbage is still easily available elsewhere, but it's a start.

Professor Participates

1.1 Dulay replied to JohnRussell @1 8 years ago

How can you close me up? On what grounds?
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.

Professor Principal

1.1.1 seeder JohnRussell replied to Dulay @1.1 8 years ago

I heard today that all the major social media have shut down Infowars on their platforms. Still waiting to see confirmation of that.

Sophomore Quiet

1.1.2 Skrekk replied to JohnRussell @1.1.1 8 years ago

Pretty much everyone except Twitter shut down the bigoted lunatic today:

Facebook, Google and Apple have each taken steps to remove conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from their platforms, marking a significant shift in the approach taken by big tech companies to the radio host.
Facebook on Monday announced that it had unpublished four pages belonging to Alex Jones for repeatedly violating the company's standards with inflammatory posts about transgender people, Muslims and immigrants, among other infractions.

Facebook said in a blog post that pages belonging to Jones have continued to post content that went against its community standards. Facebook unpublished the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page.

Jones and Infowars had a combined total of more than 2.5 million followers on Facebook across their pages.

"Upon review, we have taken it down for glorifying violence, which violates our graphic violence policy, and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies," the statement said in part.

YouTube, the other platform on which Jones had a sizable following, followed suit on Monday, terminating Jones' main account, which had 2.4 million subscribers.

"All users agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines when they sign up to use YouTube," a YouTube spokesperson said in an email. "When users violate these policies repeatedly, like our policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention of our enforcement measures, we terminate their accounts."

Earlier, Apple and Spotify both removed Jones' podcasts from their respective platforms. Infowars' apps are still available for download in Apple's App Store.

Jones confirmed on Twitter that he had been banned by Facebook, Apple and Spotify.

"What conservative news outlet will be next?" he tweeted.

Twitter remains one of the last major platforms to take action against Jones. A spokesperson for Twitter said Infowars is not in violation of Twitter and Periscope rules and noted that replies to Jones are often filled with people rebutting what he is saying in real-time.

Professor Expert

2 Kavika 8 years ago

Good the less the asshole has any airtime the better.

Professor Principal

2.1 devangelical replied to Kavika @2 8 years ago

Queue the local misinterpreters of the 1st amendment.

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