Twitter Bans Alex Jones, InfoWars

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Twitter has banned the InfoWars network’s account, and the account of the network’s founder Alex Jones, multiple outlets reported Thursday. Previously, the website had merely temporarily suspended Jones.

Jones on Wednesday confronted CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the network said, who has reported extensively on Twitter’s rules, and Jones’ violations of them.

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  1. And winger heads will explode everywhere.

  2. Avatar for tpr tpr says:

    In the distant future, after the Roberts Court has dismantled liberal society and America has a rigid caste system, the tiny cadre of wealthy WASPy “Citizens” will no doubt erect a monument to the “Stalin-esque deplatforming” of the early 21st century.

  3. Who’s Alex Jones?

    :upside_down_face:

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Sad. Bye!

  5. Bummer. But there are plenty of street corners in the country that are going unranted upon the whole livelong day. Get our boy a shopping cart and a crudely scrawled cardboard sign and he’s good to go.

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