Facebook suspends Alex Jones for 30 days

TheBigA said:

Apparently the Jones show isn't ad supported, so there is no ad boycott.

RadioInk has an article today from a broadcast lawyer on the subject:

https://radioink.com/2018/08/13/the-dividing-line-of-irresponsible-content/

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. AUSTIN, Texas — The Federal Communications Commission has shut down a pirate radio station that served as the flagship outlet for conservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The Austin American-Statesman reports the FCC also has fined the station’s operators $15,000 — a fine the FCC says in a lawsuit the operators are refusing to pay.

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin alleges Liberty Radio operated on a channel without a license since at least 2013. The lawsuit names as defendants Walter Olenick and M. Rae Nadler-Olenick.

Court documents show the FCC had tracked the transmissions to a 50-foot tower at an Austin apartment complex owned by an entity linked to the Olenicks.

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TheBigA said:

Lots of people talking about the first amendment without actually reading what it says. It only says "Congress shall make no law." This isn't Congress making laws, but private businesses using their terms of service. Sure none of the social media sites want to get into restricting speech, but some of this has gone beyond what these sites were meant for.

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FreddyE1977 said:

This is a conundrum that must be solved.

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Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones intentionally destroyed evidence as pressure steadily mounted from pending defamation lawsuits and "growing public indignation," according to a court motion filed Friday by families of Sandy Hook murder victims.

Jones and his ******** media group face lawsuits for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school mass killings in Connecticut were staged by the government and that the 26 people slain were fictitious creations in an elaborate hoax.

The latest court action against him, filed in Travis County, Texas and first reported by the New York Times, alleges that ******** "intentionally deleted a variety of social media pages and video content relating to the Sandy Hook shooting." Lawyers for the Sandy Hook families discovered the intentional destruction of evidence earlier this month, according to the court motion.

The pages and the videos were being sought as evidence against Jones in the ongoing defamation cases. Jones had been informed by lawyers for the plaintiffs that he was required by law to preserve the information as part of standard evidence rules in court cases, the motion said.

"Relevant evidence has been lost," lawyers for the families said in the court filing. "As pressure mounted . . . Mr. Jones chose to destroy the evidence of his actual malice and defamatory conduct."

******** did not respond to an email sent by USA TODAY, seeking comment on the allegations.

Jones, who also has claimed that survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting were actors, has been increasingly under fire. Twitter suspended the personal account of ******** for one week Tuesday for violating the social media company's rules against inciting violence.

YouTube, Apple, Facebook remove 'Alex Jones Show'

The social network said in a statement that Jones' account "currently has limited functionality." Jones was told the account would regain full functionality seven days after the removal of a tweet with "a broadcast in violation of our rules."

The decision was made after Jones tweeted a link to a video calling for supporters to get their “battle rifles” ready against media and others.

In the latest court filing, lawyers representing families of two Sandy Hook victims asked a judge to impose punitive sanctions, possibly a fine, against ********.

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TheBigA said:

Some say that tech is banning speech, but the fact is there are lots of alternative platforms available.

No one's banning speech. It's just another version of NIMBY.

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gr8oldies said:

Indeed, Fox News and Breitbart are among the top publishers on Facebook. The complaint seems to be that Facebook isn't force-feeding conservative content to users who didn't ask for it; thus those hapless individuals aren't being told "the truth".

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