Reuters Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content

"It can't happen here."

"Hate-speech" is different.

Note that this is a voluntary action taken by the private sector. So there is no violation of the First Amendment, which prohibits government censorship.

Reuters
Facebook, Apple remove most of U.S. conspiracy theorist's content
Rich McKay

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This is kind of a big deal. Chinese state media is usually pretty moderate. This is an attack on POTUS and it represents ratcheting up.

Chinese state media slams Trump for 'extortion' in trade dispute
Andrew Galbraith, Michael Martina


UPDATE

SFgate
YouTube, Pinterest Pull Alex Jones and InfoWars Channels Following Bans by Apple, Facebook

also

Liberty Blitzkrieg
Stop Complaining and Just Delete Facebook
Michael Krieger

SouthFront “F–k Trump”: Infowars’ Alex Jones Fiercely Reacts To Trump’s Strikes On Syria (Video)

InfoWars founder Alex Jones slams US President Donald Trump over his decision to authorize military airstrikes on Syria. InfoWars and Alex Jones personally were among the key supporters of Trump’s presidential campaign and have been among the key supporters of Trump since the start of his presidency.

To paraphrase an old proverb, "Hell hath no fury like a supporter scorned."

The tell will whether Alex Jones loses his audience (26 million a month, 82% in US).

Incidentally, FaceBook has banned SouthFront and deleted its history from the site. Apparently some people can't take the heat. They should get out of the game.

SouthFront
“F–k Trump”: Infowars’ Alex Jones Fiercely Reacts To Trump’s Strikes On Syria (Video)

See also

The Duran
Michael Savage: “This is the greatest disaster of the Trump presidency”

Alex Christoforou

Taylor Link —Donald Trump is going to appear on Alex Jones’ “InfoWars”

On Sunday, Trump adviser Newt Gingrich vehemently denied the president-elect has any ties to the alt-right movement, insisting the love affair was fabricated by the media. Yet while the president-elect was denigrating the New York Times on Twitter, Trump was reaching out to the man who believes the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax — a false flag operation designed to demonize gun owners. Jones’ website even embraces the “alt-right” name.…

“We finally have people in Washington that actually listen to the people and don’t buy the propaganda of the big, mainline corporations that are using weaponized media to mind control simple minded people,” Jones said in the video.

To prove how far off the range his paranoia is, Jones mocked Fox News, calling it “fake right-wing news.” Jones emphasized that his “InfoWars” audience — not voters who were brainwashed by “all the propaganda, all the mind control of group think” — propelled Trump’s rise to the presidency.

Salon
Donald Trump is going to appear on Alex Jones’ “InfoWars”

Taylor Link

Thom Hartmann — The Big Trump Media Story: Bannon and a Crew of Dangerous Propagandists Are in the Cockpit of National Power

Get ready for a media shitstorm.

AlterNet
The Big Trump Media Story: Bannon and a Crew of Dangerous Propagandists Are in the Cockpit of National Power
Thom Hartmann

Left and right complementary rather than antagonistic on this one

The Occupy Wall Street protests are obviously targeting Wall Street, i.e. the giant banks.

The Occupy the Fed protests – led by Alex Jones, the Oathkeepers and other conservatives – are targeting the Federal Reserve.*

While some are trying to weaken these two movements through a divide-and-conquer strategy, the truth is that they are two sides of the same coin.

Specifically, the corrupt, giant banks would never have gotten so big and powerful on their own. In a free market, the leaner banks with sounder business models would be growing, while the giants who made reckless speculative gambles would have gone bust. See this, this and this.

It is the Federal Reserve, Treasury and Congress who have repeatedly bailed out the big banks, ensured they make money at taxpayer expense, exempted them from standard accounting and the criminal and fraud laws which govern the little guy, and encouraged them – through “moral hazard” – of becoming even more reckless.

Indeed, the government made them big in the first place....

Read the rest of the post at Washington's Blog, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy the Fed: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Washington's Blog is often out of paradigm but it is a useful aggregator of information on important subjects. This post is particularly significant in that it shows how the left and right are complementing each other in the attack on the financial freewheeling and fraud, and political corruption that has led to economic chaos.