In the latest Orwellian nightmare to come from Silicon Valley, Facebook has caved to the leftist media mob demanding censorship of InfoWars and permanently banned their page.
Spotify, YouTube, and Apple have also censored the right-wing outlet as liberal media has been aggressively targeting platforms that host InfoWars content.
InfoWars host Paul Joseph Watson announced the Facebook ban on Twitter early Monday morning.
Facebook has permanently BANNED Infowars.
For unspecified "hate speech". They didn't even tell us what the offending posts were.
This sets a chilling precedent for free speech.
To all other conservative news outlets – you are next.
The great censorship purge has truly begun. pic.twitter.com/v7Yo9hI0q3
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Whether you love or loathe Infowars, this now confirms that Big Tech is working with legacy media to silence independent media.
In places like Russia, the government shuts down the press, in America, CNN, Apple and Facebook fulfil that role.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
"But it's just a private company which can do what it likes".
No it's not "just a private company".
This is a Big Tech monopoly working hand in hand with the establishment media to unfairly silence dissenters.
This is Chinese-style web control. Here and now. In the west.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
Watson was informed that the platform banned InfoWars because of “language” used to describe “people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants,” though they did not provide any specific examples of the unacceptable speech.
Confirmation that Facebook banned Infowars because of "language" used to describe "people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants."
No specific examples were provided.
In other words, if some far-left hysteric in Silicon Valley doesn't like the words you use, you're gone. pic.twitter.com/gsk3rhaLKy
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 6, 2018
WikiLeaks weighed in on the censorship, tweeting that “regardless of the facts in this case, the ability of Facebook to censor rival publishers is a global anti-trust problem, which along with San Francisco cultural imperialism reduces political diversity.”
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1026421516072759296
Earlier this week Apple removed five out of six podcasts created by InfoWars from both iTunes and the Podcast app.
“We believe in representing a wide range of views, so long as people are respectful to those with differing opinions,” Apple said in a statement to BuzzFeed about the censorship.
