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A comment on Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “battle rifles” ready. Parent comment

Re:Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “ba... by influx on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:49PM (#17778690)
A thought experiment, what if in the past the ink and paper makers had banded together and prevented a newspaper from being able to publish? Is that OK because the ink and paper companies are private and not the government?

There's been plenty of examples of yellow journalism where the press incited the public into war, so there could be legitimate reasons private ink and paper companies wouldn't want those messages broadcast.

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Re:Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “ba... by pixelbath on Thursday August 16, 2018 @05:57PM (#17778754)
The difference being that in this case, ink, paper and even printing presses are readily available to everyone. The free private one-stop platform they were using before is stopping them from publishing, but for negligible cost almost anybody can publish what they like using their own private platform.

Nobody's taking down infowars.com, afaik.

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