# 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:** 9
**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 8, 2018, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/161 "2018-08-08T02:41:43Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Correction, ((())) was used to call out jewish people by anti-semites, I got that confused with the code-words they were using to get around content filters. > > [You are being redirected...](https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-to-add-echo-symbol-used-by-anti-semites-on-twitter-to-online-hate-symbols) > > But if your family, co-workers or friends have their social media name surrounded by ((())) they are anti-smites Actually they’re anti-fascist. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/162 "2018-08-08T03:00:01Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > no idea but under cole’s law, it’s illegal to do that to cabbages. iswydt ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/163 "2018-08-08T04:18:55Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Correction, ((())) was used to call out jewish people by anti-semites, I got that confused with the code-words they were using to get around content filters. > > [You are being redirected...](https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-to-add-echo-symbol-used-by-anti-semites-on-twitter-to-online-hate-symbols) > > But if your family, co-workers or friends have their social media name surrounded by ((())) they are anti-smites (Quick note for anyone who isn’t clear about this - in response to this, many people have taken to surrounding their own names with ((())) to make it harder for neo-nazis to tell who’s who.) ---
**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 8, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/164 "2018-08-08T14:13:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > The result is the same, so why does it matter? Are your fee-fees hurt, snowflake? Because “hate speech” is an Orwellian term that gets bandied about without much thought. Many governments have outlawed “hate speech”, so I find it necessary to police the term. > [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > 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. That is not my position. My position is that I would not advise someone sticking their necks out. I make no judgement on what people should or shouldn’t do. I don’t really care either way. The fact is, there are hateful people out there. No government will ever stop this. So if your goal is to not get harassed, I would advise against putting yourself out there. This is really hard to understand for a schoolmarm. They constantly want to tell people what they should and shouldn’t do. I tell people what I would or wouldn’t do, and leave it at that. > [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > 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 “Non-permissive” is perhaps one of the foggiest terms I’ve heard in politics, maybe it’s a Canadian thing? I would not support a law permitting damage to property, but I would support any law that permits any activity that does not involve the initiation of physical violence against person or property. I have no interest in MAGAing. I would prefer the dissolution of the US and a return to the city-state with rural areas existing in a state of capitalist anarchy. > [@rat\_avatar](#): > > ‘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. Ok, sometimes it’s not. > [@Chisquirrel](#): > > Because Google is hard, apparently: > > Why are you against the free market deciding whether Alex Jones gets a monetized platform to spew his vile shit everywhere? I’m not. I’m against the use of the term “hate speech” to criticize someone, especially if it is being used loosely. **manson** educated me on Jones’ use of real deal hate speech. I still don’t like the term and would be against authoritarian governments passing hate speech laws. > [@begbert2](#): > > Which is why you’re saying that people should submit to terrorists. You’re saying that your political allies are murderers and that your political opponents should be scared that your political allies will murder them, and thus that your political opponents should not engage in public statements or political activity because your political allies will kill them. > > In fact you, specifically, are wielding terror tactics and threats in an attempt to enact political change. I believe that that makes you, yourself, the textbook definition of a terrorist. OMG:eek: You have gone off the deep end. What terror tactics am I wielding when I say I would advise against sticking your neck out? I’m against anyone sticking their neck out. Indeed I said that _I_ won’t stick my neck out. I guess I am wielding terror tactics on myself. Ross Ulbricht stuck his neck out and look what happened. I would have advised against that. The state don’t play. Threats? You are delusional, son. > [@asahi](#): > > Why would hate speech legislation necessarily be bad? > > For the record, I’m not saying I’m an advocate of hate speech legislation, but many of the hate speech laws enjoy widespread support in countries that are still otherwise democratic. Hate speech legislation hasn’t necessarily led to a rise in authoritarianism. Conversely, protecting extreme forms of speech hasn’t prevented the United States from sliding toward a creeping form of authoritarianism. Instead it has engendered antipathy that has only further polarized our social and political cultures. Government isn’t a daddy that tells you to get along with your brother. Democracy polarizes culture because it pits citizens against citizens in a slow-burn civil war for control of the state apparatus. ---
**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 8, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/165 "2018-08-08T14:21:02Z")
Yes when there are muggers in an alleyway, and I tell Grandma not to go down there, I am threatening her. You dumb as shit **begbert** , lol. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/166 "2018-08-08T15:18:11Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > That is not my position. My position is that I would not advise someone sticking their necks out. I make no judgement on what people should or shouldn’t do. I don’t really care either way. The fact is, there are hateful people out there. No government will ever stop this. So if your goal is to not get harassed, I would advise against putting yourself out there. Unfortunately in the case of Sandy Hook it was not a case of putting yourself out there, unless you consider having your kids killed putting yourself out there. Just about everyone who had a child or relative killed at Sandy Hook has received harassment not just the “high profile” ones. //i\ ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/167 "2018-08-08T15:22:41Z")
Well, it’s just common sense. You should know better than to have your child murdered. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**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 8, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/168 "2018-08-08T15:56:09Z")
> [@icon](#): > > Unfortunately in the case of Sandy Hook it was not a case of putting yourself out there, unless you consider having your kids killed putting yourself out there. Just about everyone who had a child or relative killed at Sandy Hook has received harassment not just the “high profile” ones. > > //i\ Ok. Not sure how that is a response to my advice to stay out of politics. I never said if you aren’t in politics, you won’t get harassed. I said i would advise not getting involved in politics because it could lead to harassment. I’m beginning to question basic reading comprehension skills now. ---
**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 8, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/169 "2018-08-08T16:05:02Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Ok. Not sure how that is a response to my advice to stay out of politics. I never said if you aren’t in politics, you won’t get harassed. I said i would advise not getting involved in politics because it could lead to harassment. > > I’m beginning to question basic reading comprehension skills now. Maybe because you are responding to a thread about a POS who was calling for drag queens to be burned alive and harassed the families of mass murder victims? ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/170 "2018-08-08T16:05:21Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I have no interest in MAGAing. I would prefer the dissolution of the US and a return to the city-state with rural areas existing in a state of capitalist anarchy. Sorry, I didn’t realize you were a crazy person. I’d not really looked at your posts in detail before. Please ignore my question. I’ll try not to ask you anything again. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/171 "2018-08-08T16:18:43Z")
> [@BeepKillBeep](#): > > Sorry, I didn’t realize you were a crazy person. I’d not really looked at your posts in detail before. Please ignore my question. I’ll try not to ask you anything again. Welcome to the club. edited to add: This in from [Gizmodo:](https://gizmodo.com/alex-jones-is-shirtlessly-screaming-into-the-void-on-po-1828175471) > [@](#): > > Anti-government conspiracy theorist turned pro-Trump mouthpiece Alex Jones found his hard-won followings on the web’s biggest platforms stripped away this week. In this day and age, there’s just nowhere left online for a red-blooded patriot to speak his mind. Nowhere, it seems, except for Google+. > > The frequently shirtless Truth Crusader best known for repeatedly and publicly slandering the survivors of several mass shootings continues post his rantings prolifically to the moribund social network, to basically no one. Jones has posted 15 times to Google+ in the past 24 hours, potentially making him the most active participant on the service. ---
**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 8, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/172 "2018-08-08T16:31:48Z")
Yep fits inline with the trendy wackadoodle frightened male thing is that the US is based on “liberal” ideals and has to be destroyed. And the flames are being fanned, so hopefully this putters out like the life prospects of the losers who tend to suckle on this BS to avoid manning up to their own failures. Lots of calls for violence from that side these days. > [@](#): > > Michael Scheuer says it is “quite near time” to kill American citizens who oppose Trump. > **[Former senior CIA official says it's "quite near time" for Trump supporters...](https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/former-senior-cia-official-say.html)** > > Michael Scheuer says it is "quite near time" to kill American citizens who oppose Trump. Scheuer is a former senior CIA official and the author of the New York Times… ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/173 "2018-08-08T16:32:46Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/apple-pulls-alex-jones-infowars-podcasts-for-hate-speech.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/apple-pulls-alex-jones-infowars-podcasts-for-hate-speech.html) > > Notice how Facebook only responded when trillion-dollar Apple showed some balls and removed Alex Jones. Facebook, YouTube (Alphabet/Google), and Twitter soon followed. > > Hopefully this becomes a thing. Couldn’t have happened to a slimier guy. Well…not sure there IS a slimier guy, but the sentiment remains. Oh, I read Twitter will not soon follow, as, according to the article he, Slime-Ball Jones, doesn’t violate their conduct rules or whatever. So, he probably won’t be banned from Twitter. With Trump one of their biggest users, who’d have thunk it?? ---
**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 8, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/174 "2018-08-08T16:34:04Z")
Colbert: “Folks, there was some bad news recently for extreme right-wing conspiracy theorist and bath salts spokesmodel, Alex Jones,” he said, “because it looks like his website Infowars just lost their war on info.” ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/175 "2018-08-08T16:40:30Z")
Fun isn’t something that one considers when discussing hate speech, but seeing this happen to Mr “turning the freaking frogs gay” does put a smile on my face. > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > That is not my position. My position is that I would not advise someone sticking their necks out. So you’re a coward. Are you expecting us to applaud you for your lack of moral conviction? > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I have no interest in MAGAing. I would prefer the dissolution of the US and a return to the city-state with rural areas existing in a state of capitalist anarchy. This is the part that confuses me. I’m a real anarchist, and a state of capitalist anarchy would chew up and spit out a coward like you. You whine about hate speech laws, but in an anarchy you would quickly find out that someone could just pay off the private security and then beat the shit out of you because you said something they didn’t like, and if you whine about that, they’ll just do it again. ---
**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 8, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/176 "2018-08-08T16:47:26Z")
> [@rat\_avatar](#): > > Lots of calls for violence from that side these days. > [https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/former-senior-cia-official-say.html](https://boingboing.net/2018/07/19/former-senior-cia-official-say.html) OI ! Fucko ! The List is OUR thing ! That’s it, you’re going on The List. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/177 "2018-08-08T16:50:52Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > I have no interest in MAGAing. I would prefer the dissolution of the US and a return to the city-state with rural areas existing in a state of capitalist anarchy. What do you envision your role would be in such a place? ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/178 "2018-08-08T17:21:18Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > That is not my position. My position is that I would not advise someone sticking their necks out. Yeah, that’s the spirit that founded this country. :smack: > [@](#): > > I have no interest in MAGAing. I would prefer the dissolution of the US and a return to the city-state with rural areas existing in a state of capitalist anarchy. I would hope the Black Death doesn’t stage a comeback, for your sake. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/179 "2018-08-08T17:28:39Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > What do you envision your role would be in such a place? Providing food for face-eating leopards. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202/180 "2018-08-08T17:36:10Z")
> [@Crazy\_Canuck](#): > > You whine about hate speech laws, but in an anarchy you would quickly find out that someone could just pay off the private security and then beat the shit out of you because you said something they didn’t like, and if you whine about that, they’ll just do it again. Wait, hold on, I think I may have misjudged this whole Libertarianism thing. Maybe we should give it a try. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alex-jones-gets-cyber-slapped/819202.md?page=10)