Alex Jones Is Far From the Only Person Tech Companies Are Silencing
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Facebook, Twitter, Apple and other companies routinely silence voices in marginalized communities around the world that struggle to be heard in the first place, replicating their offline repression
by: David Greene
Alex Jones, a right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist, in 2017. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
We're finally having a public debate about the big Internet platforms policing content and suspending accounts. But it's a serious mistake to frame the debate about content moderation around right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars and not around the thousands of other moderation decisions that have been made by such online giants as Apple, Facebook, Google-owned YouTube and Spotify.
Internet companies have removed m...