You've made a couple of points here. With regard to the Pizzagate incident, using the same set of arguments, I can claim that fringe leftist publications resul

You've made a couple of points here. With regard to the Pizzagate incident, using the same set of arguments, I can claim that fringe leftist publications resulted in the Congressional baseball shooting where people were actually hurt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting#Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh... So are you arguing that all those groups he participated in should be banned? That's what it sounds like. Are you willing to ban Bernie for incitement? > It is rather audacious to me that you seem to assert that speech in social platforms that are owned and operated in the US with US citizens talking to each other is somehow separate from the rule of law of the US government. The internet was essentially created by the US government. The notion that internet companies somehow supersede individual governments is- dangerous. It is not the job of private companies to enforce the law. That's the government's job. And there's a reason for that. You do not get to be judge, jury, and executioner because you have some superiority complex. If the government took action, we can have a substantive discussion over the merits of the case ... but it's irrelevant, because they didn't. > The decision of social platforms to enforce their policies in this matter is in part in response to the will of their stakeholders, but also to insulate themselves from anything remotely close to being a party to defamation. It doesn't matter what reason they had for doing it. They may not even have had a reason. It is their right to do it ... but just because you can, doesn't mean you should. That was my point. It's a poor decision. > If you've gotten this far in this thread, please spend some time with Alex Jones' greatest hits and give me your honest opinion of its merit. What merit does the WWE ( https://www.wwe.com/ https://www.wwe.com/ ) have? He's the equivalent in the talk show space. It's entertainment. Do some people take it seriously? I'm sure they do. Some people take the WWE seriously too and think that it's real. So what? Even if the content has no merit whatsoever, so what? Again, we're not talking about the government censoring him. That's when merit would come into play. It's a private party. They can absolutely do it. And they shouldn't, because censorship is bad. Really, really bad. And let's not pretend like their censorship is targeted at only undesirables. Well, I suppose it is, but it depends on who is pointing the finger. These same shitty companies censor perfectly legitimate content in China, because $$$. Not cool. All these private companies that banned him, they all categorize content. They can easily have a nutjob category and if I want to watch that, it's my business. I don't need the social engineering, thanks. Also, social engineering usually backfires. I hear Alex Jones has a really popular app and website now due to all the publicity?