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Censorship is a fickle friend. It's great, until you inevitably find that you hold a minority, unpopular opinion on an issue. Your flippant remark indicates a
by JPKab 7y ago
Censorship is a fickle friend. It's great, until you inevitably find that you hold a minority, unpopular opinion on an issue.
Your flippant remark indicates a lack of deep thinking on this issue, and once I googled Diamond and Silk, I realize that your probably a bit of a partisan as well.
The removal of Alex Jones didn't help anything. It just helped reinforce the paranoia he and his supporters have, which is that a vast conspiracy exists to silence him and others who believe his theories.
Those supporters now listen to him on whatever alternate platform (my brother in law is one of them) and it's even harder to talk to them now due to the Youtube cancellation.
You feel better emotionally because he's off Youtube. Feels like a victory for you, doesn't it? It's hollow.
My brother-in-law just listens even more rabidly, and he votes. Enjoy your false victory. Jones is stronger than ever now. Censorship doesn't work. It never will.
- milemi 7y agoI see your brother in law (way to draw grand conclusions based on a sample of one, btw), and raise you an article in nytimes, which might be, just might be, a bit better researched https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-inf... The article isn’t recent, and I challenge you to find a more recent record that paints a less gloomy picture for him, but I doubt you’ll find it. Alex Jones is a non-entity now compared to his heyday. Deplatforming works, your extended family notwithstanding.