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Well, it didn't last that long. Alex Jones has just been officially banned from Twitter. Sounds like the final straw was over a hallway spat in Capitol Hill with Marco Rubio.

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/pol/'s tribute to his banning

First it's Alex Jones, then Patreon alternatives…

…oh wait…that's happening already.

And nothing of value was lost.

Now we just wait for the whole site to disappear or become irrelevant. It truly does more harm than good to humanity as it stands right now.

I'm surprised his account lasted that long. It's not like he's a stranger to harassing people and breaking Twitter's ToS. It's just bias toward people with lots of influence. If a smaller account did the things he did it'd be gone instantly. Their reluctance to ban him is a sign of weakness, and they need to rectify it if they want to be taken seriously.

Exactly this.
High-profile people shouldn't be given special treatment.

If he was your run-of-the-mill conservative like Shapiro, the I would be very concerned. But Jones encourages conspiracy theories and bullied actual children.

In any democratic court of law, people are innocent until proven guilty. In social media, this principle goes out of the window the moment the person in question goes against the neurotic, politically correct and pretentious climate. I have seen lots of accusations against Alex Jones, yet not one piece of actual evidence.
He's rude. But since when was being rude a crime? Attacking someone for their chosen persona is the textbook example of going after low hanging fruit.
Just like the vocal but stealthy "resistance" against Trump, 99% of people harping on Alex Jones are virtue signaling, pseudo intellectual keyboard sjws who want to stand in the right side of history. But hey, that means that the 1% has actual solid criticism against him. So, show the world what you got, 1%!
As for the alleged breaking of Twitter's ToS, that argument holds no water. Every single social media has a fluid, ever changing but always intentionally vague ToS which has only one function: to give justification for banning the scape goat of the day. It reminds me of the Soviet Union's (currently Russia) justice system: accusation is proof enough.

@Jankovic Um, this is the guy who is being sued for defamation and posting personal info of sandy hook families which forced them into hiding This is less about him being right-wing and more about him being a dangerous conspiracy theorist actually harassing people and ruining lives.