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

Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by gamblor956 on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:25PM (#17702654)

In the days of the First Amendment...newspapers did actively censor their opposition. Hell, the First Congress, most of whom participated in the drafting of the Bill of Rights and its ratification by the States, passed the Sedition Act, clamping down on free speech in a way not seen since outside of WWII.

As for making political affiliation a protected class...that wouldn't shield Jones. He's being kicked off for slander, lies, and acts of incitement, not his claim to be a conservative.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by slededit on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:29PM (#17702672)

I speak of paper mills not newspapers. This is analogue to DNS providers and other internet infrastructure providers participating in censorship. It would be a clear breach of first amendment rights to force someone with editorial control to print something.

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Re:YouTube Bans Alex Jones, Following Facebook's and Apple's... by tchaffee on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @08:16AM (#17705781)

Horrible analogy. YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are nothing like DNS and other internet infrastructure, nor are they like paper mills.

Alex Jones runs a website using DNS and internet infrastructure and gets 10 million monthly visitors. Where's the censorship?

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