# Alex Jones gets cyber-slapped **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 7, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202 "2018-08-07T00:42:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/121 "2018-08-07T19:25:12Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I’m confused, is this a cabal conspiracy? Are you the new Jones? No, I just pay attention. ‘_optics_’ is the alt-rights own term. And fuck you to hell for putting me in the same bucket as a misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic coward like Alex Jones. The fact that you resort to that tactic shows a lot about your lack of both standing and morals. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/122 "2018-08-07T19:31:49Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Yes. Fearlessly you emote every political correct platitude possible. A true trailblazer. “Politically correct”, huh? So, you think people should be allowed to be intimidated out of their rights of free speech and free assembly? Because of lie-incited “nuts”? Hide behind sneering about political correctness as a way to avoid engaging the issue and confronting your own ignorance all you want. The 1st Amendment is a little more than that though. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/123 "2018-08-07T19:32:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Well, this _is_ the Pit. If someone were of a mind to excoriate **TrollFarnaby** here, they would probably do it with much higher dudgeon than you piddly-ass lack of imagination can barely even half conjure. Yes I’m still waiting for that time when someone really lays one on me. Hasn’t happened. > [@rat\_avatar](#): > > No, I just pay attention. ‘_optics_’ is the alt-rights own term. > > And fuck you to hell for putting me in the same bucket as a misogynistic, bigoted, homophobic coward like Alex Jones. > > The fact that you resort to that tactic shows a lot about your lack of both standing and morals. Relax. I had no idea what you were on about with this “optics” and “they”. Sounds like some CT stuff. > [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’m not sure if it matters if Jones has engaged in hate speech when he’s clearly deeply mired in dumb speech. Well it does matter, but if FB would have just said, “Look, this guy is an asshole, so we are kicking him out. If you don’t like it, suck it up.” I would appreciate that much better. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/124 "2018-08-07T19:34:11Z")
YouTube and Apple may have claimed to have banned Jones, but they still have the Infowars app on their app stores. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/125 "2018-08-07T19:34:14Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > “Politically correct”, huh? So, you think people should be allowed to be intimidated out of their rights of free speech and free assembly? Because of lie-incited “nuts”? > > Hide behind sneering about political correctness as a way to avoid engaging the issue and confronting your own ignorance all you want. The 1st Amendment is a little more than that though. No need for the sanctimony, bud. I’m simply a pragmatic individual. I don’t need that noise in my life, so I wouldn’t advise others to put themselves out there. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/126 "2018-08-07T19:35:02Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Oh I disagree with that, I’m sure there are threads where you can fight your ignorance on that. I’m not at all surprised you disagree. Out of curiosity, do you think all non-permissive laws are authoritarian? ---
**Author:** ![rock\_party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@rock\_party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rock_party)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/127 "2018-08-07T19:36:54Z")
For christsakes just Google him. His worst stuff is his hate bantering on his daily rant, not his “speeches”. He’s on for 2 hours per day and goes on and on with conspiracy theories and crazy talk. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/128 "2018-08-07T19:40:06Z")
By the way for anybody who hasn’t read it, the Rational Wiki article on Jones is hilarious, and confirms my earlier post that he is total scum. > **[Alex Jones](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Alex_Jones)** > > Alexander Emerick Jones (1974–imminent FEMA takeover) is a\[3\] nutritional supplement salesman who moonlights as a psychotic\[4\]\[5\]\[6\] radio shock-jock and a\[7\] self-proclaimed "performance artist".\[8\] His specialty is making up conspiracy theories to... ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/129 "2018-08-07T19:43:26Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > I’m not at all surprised you disagree. Out of curiosity, do you think all non-permissive laws are authoritarian? I’m not sure what non-permissive means, so I can’t say for sure. I’d rather take them on a case-by-case basis. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/130 "2018-08-07T19:44:49Z")
Alex Jones has now been banned from YouPorn (yes, that’s right) and Pinterest. I have no idea why he would be on Pinterest. I wonder if he’s on etsy. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/131 "2018-08-07T19:46:45Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Well it does matter, but if FB would have just said, “Look, this guy is an asshole, so we are kicking him out. If you don’t like it, suck it up.” I would appreciate that much better. The result is the same, so why does it matter? Are your fee-fees hurt, snowflake? ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/132 "2018-08-07T19:55:31Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > No need for the sanctimony, bud. I’m simply a pragmatic individual. I don’t need that noise in my life, so I wouldn’t advise others to put themselves out there. Ah, now it is sanctimony. You are doing an admirable job of avoiding confronting the content of what is said to you. Your position remains that people whose children were murdered should just STFU because some liar on the internet is inciting a bunch of idiots to harass them. YOU don’t need the noise? It is to laugh. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/133 "2018-08-07T19:57:17Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I’m not sure what non-permissive means, so I can’t say for sure. I’d rather take them on a case-by-case basis. I don’t think it is that hard to figure out, but that’s fine, you seem to have your hands full defending one of the scummiest people in the USA today. #MAGA ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/134 "2018-08-07T20:01:21Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Relax. I had no idea what you were on about with this “optics” and “they”. Sounds like some CT stuff. ‘They’ being white nationalists. Both of the conspiracy theorists and neo-nazi form. It has ben a long movement with lots of offshoots, but always at least loose collaboration and a shared library of crackpot books. You may believe in the lluminati, but sometimes ‘they’ is used in the normal form. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/135 "2018-08-07T20:07:07Z")
He has the bestest supporters! One of whom counters the “private companies are not subject to 1st Amendment” argument with : > [@Millie Weaver via Twitter](#): > > Dear Libtards who think Facebook is a privately owned business, > > There’s a thing called fact-checking. > > Facebook is a public business that’s publicly traded. > > Using that argument to justify banning Alex Jones doesn’t work Followed by the SEC registration of Facebook as a publicly traded company :smack: > ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/136 "2018-08-07T20:17:04Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > He has the bestest supporters! One of whom counters the “private companies are not subject to 1st Amendment” argument with : > > Followed by the SEC registration of Facebook as a publicly traded company :smack: > > [https://twitter.com/millie\_\_weaver/status/1026805202580647936?s=21](https://twitter.com/millie__weaver/status/1026805202580647936?s=21) They can’t be this stupid, can they?\* This is all just parody, a right-wing Onion piece. Right? Please? Og, I’m begging, make it stop. \*Yeah, I know they can be. And it makes me very, very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/137 "2018-08-07T20:21:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I have no idea why he would be on Pinterest. I wonder if he’s on etsy. While I \*\*really \*\*don’t wanna know why he was on YouPorn. _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![rat\_avatar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rat_avatar/32/255_2.png) [@rat\_avatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rat_avatar)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/138 "2018-08-07T20:23:32Z")
Only the government is subject to the 1st amendment, and it doesn’t matter if it is a public or private corporation. Individuals do not lose their other rights for exercising another, so even if the government was involved here it wouldn’t matter. There is no free speech right to even invoke here but as people do not lose their freedom of speech when they choose to exercise their freedom of assembly it wouldn’t matter anyway. To be fair both sides want to toss other peoples rights away when it fits their cause. Re: citizens united, which is a case of my fellow progressives trying to get rid of fundamental rights because we are bad at organizing. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/139 "2018-08-07T20:48:31Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > They can’t be this stupid, can they? … Read this thread from the beginning. You’ll only need a few of Farnaby’s posts to answer that. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/140 "2018-08-07T20:59:18Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I am simply asking for an example of Alex Jones’ hate speech. If I asked for David Duke’s hate speech, I’d get in in a flash. Because Google is hard, apparently: > [@Alex Jones](#): > > “That’s a demon I will take down, or I’ll die trying. So that’s it. It’s going to happen, we’re going to walk out in the square, politically, at high noon, and he’s going to find out whether he makes a move man, make the move first, and then it’s going to happen,” Why are you against the free market deciding whether Alex Jones gets a monetized platform to spew his vile shit everywhere? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202.md?page=8)