> If you ban a conspiracy theorist, doesn't that give him credibility among conspiracy theorists? Not just among conspiracy theorists. You've heard of the Stre

> If you ban a conspiracy theorist, doesn't that give him credibility among conspiracy theorists? Not just among conspiracy theorists. You've heard of the Streisand effect? Alex Jones's banning corresponded with the infowars app release. It quickly shot to the #1 "trending" app on Google Play. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/technology/infowars-app-trending.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/technology/infowars-app-t...