Tech Corporations vs Alex Jones

Guess who's been kicked on the butt

Alex Jones, the right-wing conspiracy theorist, had met the end of the road, but only on YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify, etc, but from the whole internet, Alex Jones, the host and founder of Infowars, has been kicked out of YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Spotify, and other platforms for their constant violations of community standards and rules that all YouTube channels, for example, has to follow, but Jones has violated these rules so much for so long and YouTube barely took a stand, but why now? Alex Jones accused Special Counsel Investigator, Robert S. Mueller III, of running of pedophile prostitution brothel, and seemingly challenging Mueller for a dual, in other words, threatening to shoot Mueller, a top law enforcement figure who was head of the FBI. 

A Free Speech Issue?

It's really not a free speech issue because the Tech Corporations isn't the United States government, the First Amendment prohibits the Government from passing laws oppressing free speech, as Republicans already violated that amendment by passing laws against Demonstrations against the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The first amendment isn't clear for Corporate America, which concerned both sides of the political spectrum, the Populists on both sides fear potential censorship because Corporations are part of the establishment against the Populists, and while there are Conservatives whining about Corporate Censorship, there is hypocrisy on the Right because they've been defending Corporations' rights to do as they please, even if it means violating the rights of others, and began to see that this idea of thinking is starting to backfire on them because Corporations are now targeting Alex Jones and these Tech Media Corporations, probably and hopefully won't, start targeting other Right-Wing media outlets and platforms, when it comes to the Conservative version of Free Market Capitalism, and starts to become a backfired problem transitioned from a Ronald Reagan era idea. 

Should Alex Jones really be banned?

That depends on his behavior, use of language, and how he speaks to his base, Alex Jones performed defamation against the Sandy Hook families, the people who lost their children to the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, and when the parents were forced to go public because of this highly reported and publicized event, Alex Jones accused the Sandy Hook event as a "false flag operation" as a scheme for the Government to violate the second amendment, which protects an American's right to possess a gun, this kind of political commentation worked on Libertarian and Conservative viewers of Infowars and started doing things to the families that are illegal and not protected by the first amendment, the families received death threats from Infowars' crazed viewers after burying their children, and one family had to move seven times, even far away from their son's gravesite, to avoid cruel Infowars crazies, this is one of these things Alex Jones has crossed the line that even the first amendment doesn't protect. The first amendment does not protect a person's right to threaten, bully (cyber or verbally), or harass people, especially in moments of grieve and despair. 

Sandy Hook denialism was the prominent cause of Alex Jones' legal crisis, Jones faced defamation lawsuits that the Tech Companies who are serving his channel fear that the Sandy Hook parents might start sueing them for publishing Jones' work, and to avoid their possible that is winnable for the parents and will financially cost the tech companies, they, banded together on the same day but hours apart, banned Alex Jones to keep their beloved money and money only. 

Will this lead to Judicial Challenges?

Possibly yes, because the American Civil Liberties Union might accept Jones' lawsuit (if he sues) and take that lawsuit pretty much all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and that probably won't be much of a victory for the Sandy Hook families if Defamation isn't part of this argument. The Supreme Court sided with Corporations against the Workers before, so would the Supreme Court side with the Tech Companies in this issue of free speech, well that would be a debate. 

But the Tech Corporations aren't the Government, so does the Supreme Court have power over the Corporations, of course they do, but based on the political affiliation of the Supreme Court, they don't have the backbone to consolidate that power, so they sided with Corporations instead, giving them power, most notably the Citizens United case, which legalized Corporate Bribery over Congress to ignore their constituents and take advise from the Corporations through financial campaign bribes.

Conservatives thought decades ago that allowing Corporations to control our government through elections and eventually the courts and unfortunately that has really backfired on the Conservatives, proving the left-wing progressives' point of why Corporations shouldn't control the U.S. Government. Both parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, both fell under the rule of Corporate Interests, and it's angering both Left-Wingers and Right-Wingers, this was why Donald Trump was even elected President in the first place, but unfortunately, Trump got ended up bowing to Corporations and started ignoring his constituents, one of those moments was that 2017 Corporate Tax Cut that Trump has recently signed into law.