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>It's not that Alex Jones is off-topic it's that he's saying disagreeable things. I think this is the central disagreement. He _is_ breaking the rules of twitt
by annabellish 8y ago
>It's not that Alex Jones is off-topic it's that he's saying disagreeable things.
I think this is the central disagreement. He _is_ breaking the rules of twitter, by any interpretation, but even were he not, I don't think you can just wipe away concerns with that the things he's saying are "disagreeable".
We're having a lot of problems currently around the fact that we have people who have gotten very good at propagandising and communicating in malicious, duplicitous ways. Alex Jones and friends aren't coming to the table in good faith, and asking to be treated as if they are is one of the tools they're using to twist polite discourse for their own profit.
While it's incredibly important that anybody who has something to say in good faith be allowed to say it, we still need to be able to protect ourselves against people like Alex Jones, who is simply trying to extract profit from a gullible audience.