YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's Lead

Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by trukterious on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:33PM (#17701961)

>Conspiracy theorist and online troll Alex Jones

>The decision comes hours after Apple and Facebook made similar moves

So I guess Mr Jones will have to report on this particular conspiracy elsewhere. I for one would like to hear it...

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by pithic on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:04PM (#17702177)

Sophisticated people understand that there are no actual conspiracies, only baseless conspiracy theories.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by trukterious on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:49PM (#17702461)

Conspiracy theories are usually bad explanations and leave unexplained stuff like how new conspirators are recruited without exposing the conspiracy. Yet a small fraction of conspiracy theories are true, e.g. Guy Fawkes. A more sophisticated treatment acknowledges this and understands that these are frequently labelled 'conspiracy theories' in attempts to discredit them.

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