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Infowars Lasted 15 Hours Back On Youtube Before Being Banned Again
YouTube wants you to know that its leaders really, really value “openness.” Apparently to prove the point, Infowars’ “War Room” YouTube channel, as first reported by Vice, was resurrected on Wednesday; most channels of the Infowars franchise were kicked off the platform last year for violating YouTube’s community guidelines. But just hours after “War Room” reappeared, the channel was deleted when Vice’s Motherboard vertical took note of its rebirth.
(Right Wing Watch has found, however, that hours of Infowars programming, including the “War Room” and “The Alex Jones Show” continue to be made available on a different YouTube channel, labeled “General Shepherd.”)
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Since last year, Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones, have been denied access to posting their materials on virtually all major internet-based media platforms, beginning with Spotify, which banned Infowars following reporting by Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt chronicling the myriad ways in which the platform’s terms-of-service rules were broken by Jones and his hosts. Apple Music, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook soon followed suit.
Jones and his colleagues are purveyors of hate-filled conspiracy theories that have even targeted the parents of the children massacred at their school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in 2012. (Jones claimed the shooting was a hoax and that the parents of murdered children were lying. In June, a parent of one the victims made headway in a defamation suit against Jones.) Jones’ theories led to death threats against some of the grieving parents.
YouTube and other social media platforms have come under pressure from right-wing lawmakers—at the prompting of the right-wing conspiracy machine (go figure)—for allegedly trying to repress the “free speech” of “conservatives.” Perhaps that’s what led Wojcicki to pen her paean to “openness.” We’ve yet to learn just what led to the re-shuttering of Infowars’ YouTube videos.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whipsawed-infowars-welcomed-back-to-youtube-then-axed/
(Right Wing Watch has found, however, that hours of Infowars programming, including the “War Room” and “The Alex Jones Show” continue to be made available on a different YouTube channel, labeled “General Shepherd.”)
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Since last year, Infowars and its proprietor, Alex Jones, have been denied access to posting their materials on virtually all major internet-based media platforms, beginning with Spotify, which banned Infowars following reporting by Right Wing Watch’s Jared Holt chronicling the myriad ways in which the platform’s terms-of-service rules were broken by Jones and his hosts. Apple Music, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook soon followed suit.
Jones and his colleagues are purveyors of hate-filled conspiracy theories that have even targeted the parents of the children massacred at their school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in 2012. (Jones claimed the shooting was a hoax and that the parents of murdered children were lying. In June, a parent of one the victims made headway in a defamation suit against Jones.) Jones’ theories led to death threats against some of the grieving parents.
YouTube and other social media platforms have come under pressure from right-wing lawmakers—at the prompting of the right-wing conspiracy machine (go figure)—for allegedly trying to repress the “free speech” of “conservatives.” Perhaps that’s what led Wojcicki to pen her paean to “openness.” We’ve yet to learn just what led to the re-shuttering of Infowars’ YouTube videos.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/whipsawed-infowars-welcomed-back-to-youtube-then-axed/
Hate generally has a conservative bias to it. Good for Youtube. As for Infowars - womp womp!
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Especially given today's climate with the boorish behavior of the MAGA crowd. 
