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The profound issue here is that Alex Jones' supposed rule violations are far more tame than many things that liberal leaning individuals have shared on Twitter

The profound issue here is that Alex Jones' supposed rule violations are far more tame than many things that liberal leaning individuals have shared on Twitter against Trump, Republicans, etc. There is not equal application of the rules, they are applied in a biased manner.

komali2 8y ago
Do you have evidence for this? What I've seen is that typically a banned conservative will do something like target someone without the resources to defend themselves (for example, Alex Jones calling children that are victims of a mass shooting "crisis actors"), whereas hordes of liberal citizens voicing their distaste of Trump is just How It Be To Be President. I would love to see evidence contrary. I report violent comments no matter the target and Twitter is good about sending a message back about action taken, and I've yet to notice a trend.
- goblekitepe 8y ago
  Jones never even said that, that's the problem. The media created a false narrative and spread it. He specifically said that people who were interviewed after the shooting were crisis actors. Who cares the specifics of what he said though? It's distasteful, but if distasteful speech is grounds to ban someone then most of Twitter should be banned. And the evidence is that James Woods, Alex Jones and others have been banned because of political speech while similarly high profile Leftist commentators who post inflammatory things have not been banned.
  - komali2 8y ago
    He repeatedly argued that not only was the shooting a hoax, the victims (who include people interviewed), were crisis actors. He did this so much that the victims were getting stalked and receiving death threats. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45358890 https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45358890 I'm sorry, I'd love to participate in this discussion with you but "similarly high profile leftist commentators (who?) Who post inflammatory things (what?) is just not enough evidence to convince me of anything.
    - goblekitepe 8y ago
      Find the video of Jones saying that. He doesn't say what the BBC claims he does; BBC doesn't include video of him saying those things because such a video doesn't exist. It's not his fault the victims received death threats. He did not advocate for deranged people to send death threats. Just off the top of my head, Peter Fonda: "We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles..." https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-trump-secret-service/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-tr... He wasn't banned. Sarah Jeong, despicable racist now working at NYT: "oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men". http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-times-stands-by-new-tech-writer-sarah-jeong-after-racist-tweets-surface.html http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-tim... Also not banned. Please find me one example of a prominent Twitter Leftist being banned for saying something "hateful", whatever that means.
      - komali2 8y ago
        Both apologized. Sarah's were taken out of context. >“We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done … her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” The Times said in a statement. “She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it.” https://youtu.be/MMcSXNKLY7I https://youtu.be/MMcSXNKLY7I 0:24 https://youtu.be/To91BJGKr5I https://youtu.be/To91BJGKr5I 10:30 >Please find me one example of a prominent Twitter Leftist being banned for saying something "hateful", whatever that means https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/antifa-banned-twitter-texas/ https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/antifa-banned-twitter-tex... Though as I guess someone on the left side of the political spectrum, I would be as offended to be associated with antifa as a fiscal conservative would be to be associated with Alex Jones.
        goblekitepe 8y ago
        Her tweets were taken out of context? No. She tried to justify her racism by saying white people had done mean things to her on the internet in the past. That's an incredibly broken mindset and accepting her attempted justification just perpetuates racism. But it's against white people so I guess that's not a big deal. Also I said prominent, the conservatives I mentioned each had around 1 million followers. That Antifa student group, orders of magnitude less.

komali2 8y ago

Do you have evidence for this? What I've seen is that typically a banned conservative will do something like target someone without the resources to defend themselves (for example, Alex Jones calling children that are victims of a mass shooting "crisis actors"), whereas hordes of liberal citizens voicing their distaste of Trump is just How It Be To Be President. I would love to see evidence contrary. I report violent comments no matter the target and Twitter is good about sending a message back about action taken, and I've yet to notice a trend.

goblekitepe 8y ago
Jones never even said that, that's the problem. The media created a false narrative and spread it. He specifically said that people who were interviewed after the shooting were crisis actors. Who cares the specifics of what he said though? It's distasteful, but if distasteful speech is grounds to ban someone then most of Twitter should be banned. And the evidence is that James Woods, Alex Jones and others have been banned because of political speech while similarly high profile Leftist commentators who post inflammatory things have not been banned.
- komali2 8y ago
  He repeatedly argued that not only was the shooting a hoax, the victims (who include people interviewed), were crisis actors. He did this so much that the victims were getting stalked and receiving death threats. https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45358890 https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-45358890 I'm sorry, I'd love to participate in this discussion with you but "similarly high profile leftist commentators (who?) Who post inflammatory things (what?) is just not enough evidence to convince me of anything.
  - goblekitepe 8y ago
    Find the video of Jones saying that. He doesn't say what the BBC claims he does; BBC doesn't include video of him saying those things because such a video doesn't exist. It's not his fault the victims received death threats. He did not advocate for deranged people to send death threats. Just off the top of my head, Peter Fonda: "We should rip Barron Trump from his mother's arms and put him in a cage with pedophiles..." https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-trump-secret-service/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/peter-fonda-baron-tr... He wasn't banned. Sarah Jeong, despicable racist now working at NYT: "oh man it's kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men". http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-times-stands-by-new-tech-writer-sarah-jeong-after-racist-tweets-surface.html http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/02/new-york-tim... Also not banned. Please find me one example of a prominent Twitter Leftist being banned for saying something "hateful", whatever that means.
    - komali2 8y ago
      Both apologized. Sarah's were taken out of context. >“We hired Sarah Jeong because of the exceptional work she has done … her journalism and the fact that she is a young Asian woman have made her a subject of frequent online harassment. For a period of time she responded to that harassment by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers,” The Times said in a statement. “She regrets it, and The Times does not condone it.” https://youtu.be/MMcSXNKLY7I https://youtu.be/MMcSXNKLY7I 0:24 https://youtu.be/To91BJGKr5I https://youtu.be/To91BJGKr5I 10:30 >Please find me one example of a prominent Twitter Leftist being banned for saying something "hateful", whatever that means https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/antifa-banned-twitter-texas/ https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/antifa-banned-twitter-tex... Though as I guess someone on the left side of the political spectrum, I would be as offended to be associated with antifa as a fiscal conservative would be to be associated with Alex Jones.
      - goblekitepe 8y ago
        Her tweets were taken out of context? No. She tried to justify her racism by saying white people had done mean things to her on the internet in the past. That's an incredibly broken mindset and accepting her attempted justification just perpetuates racism. But it's against white people so I guess that's not a big deal. Also I said prominent, the conservatives I mentioned each had around 1 million followers. That Antifa student group, orders of magnitude less.