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CONFIRMED: @apple has cut ties with Alex Jones and Infowars.
Last week, we asked @Apple how the harassment of Sandy Hook parents and Vegas shooting victims didn’t violate their Terms of Service. Tonight, they decided that it did.

Massive kudos to @Apple for doing what most tech companies have so far refused to do.
Smaller companies with a whole lot more to lose, @Stitcher & @OvercastFM deserve a ton of credit for already doing this before @Apple did tonight, so please check them out and give them your business. They took a bold stance that none of the bigger companies were willing to.
As for @facebook, @YouTube, @spotify and @twitter, this is what it looks like when you enforce your own rules. It’s not hard. It’s actually quite simple. You wrote the Terms Of Service. Now follow them.
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This year was a total shit show. So, just to stick it to ourselves one last time, we decided to relive 10 things which we either led, were a part of or were inspired by in 2018.

Just under the wire, this is...

THE SLEEPING GIANTS 2018 YEAR IN REVIEW
1) January saw Steve Bannon go from the title of "Racist Blog Manager" to just "Racist" as he was deposed from Breitbart after only a few months back on the job. Of course, we had nothing to do with this, but it's nice to relive again. Just because it is.
2) After a year and a half of us screaming into the void about it, Unilever finally came out swinging against @facebook and other social platforms refusing to address the hate and harassment on their platforms. Still a long way to go, but...a massive step.
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Quick thread: No one is making these advertisers leave this show. The decision is theirs. They have had meetings and decided that, to appeal to the most consumers they can, it is probably foolish to continue to support a show that denigrates many of them. hollywoodreporter.com/news/tucker-ca…
At the same time, Fox is making its own decision. They have opted to continue the divisive, bigoted rhetoric with zero regard for the consequences. By tripling down on these comments, they have basically told their customers (advertisers) that they don’t care about their brands.
No one is making anyone do anything here. These are all calculated decisions. The free market decides which ideas work and which don’t.
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THREAD: For over two years, we’ve asked @disqus and new owner @ZetaGlobal how Breitbart’s comment section doesn’t break their very clear Terms of Service.

They have only offered tepid excuses, changing their story every few months.
This is just a very small sampling of the thousands of comments that have appeared on Breitbart’s @disqus-powered comment section. They’re not just racist, they’re incredibly violent.

Breitbart only moderates them when called out by the press.
This is from the @disqus site and it was posted a week ago. How can they continue to ignore these clear and continued violations?
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1. Understandably there’s outrage at the way Alex Jones has been removed from social media.

#QAnon
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Alex Jones in the news.

The guy is dangerous. He incites violence & regularly defames ordinary Americans. He is a public menace.

This is difficult to watch but Trump gets his "news" from Alex Jones & InfoWars.

So every American needs to know:

Alex Jones is in Trump's inner circle. Jones has millions of followers on InfoWars.

Watch how he stirs the unhinged. He regularly incites violence

A public menace

Alex Jones should be in jail.

Please watch a small sample of Alex Jones & explain why this terrorist continues to commit crimes in the wide-open & uses social media to promote a violent agenda w millions of unhinged followers ... like Trump

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OK, a bunch of stuff has happened in the last few weeks, and I'm just back from vacation, so I'm going to do a little impromptu Trump/Russia round-up, just to keep everything straight in my own head.
1/ First, Alex Jones and #InfoWars. The guy admitted, in a court of law, that he was a performance artist who didn't believe any of the crap he was peddling. That was last year. Why are we only now realizing that he's a BS artist & con man? Better late than never, I guess.
2/ The MAGA pundipshits are now re-aligning themselves w/r/t #QAnon. Do they believe Q or not? This is like a crew of hateful Easter Bunnies voting on whether or not the Tooth Fairy is real.

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Alex Jones ganha milhões por intencionalmente espalhar teorias de conspiração totalmente absurdas, sabendo que — as vezes — sua audiência paranóica reagirá violentamente. YouTube o baniu, mas o @MBLivre apoia ele pq é outro site de fake news da direita. Mas o q o Alex faz? 👇
1) Lidera há anos uma teoria de conspiração que, na verdade, as crianças que morreram no ataque em Sandy Hook (o mais sangrento episódio numa escola nos EUA) foram "atores de crise" e tudo foi inventado para tirar as armas da população.
Por causa dessa campanha, os pais das vítimas vivem em terror e estão perseguidos e ameaçados de morte. Nessa matéria do NYTimes, os pais de Noah Pozner contam que tinham que mudar de casa 5 vezes e não conseguem visitar o cemitério. nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/…
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📢#RETWEET 📢
Why is @RealAlexJones "Content" removed from Apple, Facebook, YouTube & Spotify platforms?

Worse than #Shadowbanning is this "Targeted" Censorship of Conservatives with Millions of Followers that is sharing "The TRUTH They dont want You to know about"?
@AjitPaiFCC
📢#RETWEET 📢
Alex Jones is now being CENSORED, Are You NEXT?

Straight out of Communism plot we Made ILLEGAL IN 1954

Regardless what you think of him & Infowars, this is equivalent of digital book burning & sets a horrifying precedent for mass censorship by Big Tech #DeepState
📢#RETWEET 📢
@RealAlexJones banned completely on Facebook, Apple, & Spotify
What conservative news outlet will be next?
The one platform that they CAN'T ban & will ALWAYS have our live streams is infowars.com/show

‼️Spread links to help #Infowars fight #Censorship‼️
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