What Does It Mean to Ban Alex Jones?
The inconsistent embargo on Infowars demonstrates the breadth of tools tech companies have to police speech.
On Monday, Apple, Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify “banned” the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his media company, Infowars, from their platforms.
Jones has seized on the moment, selling his show Monday as a “world exclusive” responding to “being banned on the internet,” hashtagged #MondayMotivation as well as #Censorship.
But if you went to Apple’s App Store, you could find his company’s app, which contains Jones’s podcasts and shows, and which has been “” up the App Store charts. Or, if you went to Facebook today and shared an Infowars link, it’d post. YouTube still hosts various Infowars associates such as Paul Joseph Watson, along with
