Nobody silenced Alex Jones. Certainly not in a way that is comparable to
the pres of the US at a press conference saying "I won't call on so and so from CNN because they traffic in fake news". That's not silencing CNN of course, but it is the highest govt office dancing around the 1st amendment in a way that should raise your ire and indignation like you just directed it at Matt.
Anybody can find Alex Jones on the Internet. Facebook and Youtube made a business decision. No first amendment implications, no free speech implications at all. Just businesses making their own risk-reward calculations. Alex Jones makes money for these guys, and with the recent spate of lawsuits and "headline risk", they decided that the risks outweigh those rewards.
Colin Kaepernick no longer has the platform he used to have for his protests. But his free speech rights have not been compromised one little bit. He can speak from now to eternity in the good ol' US of A, but the NFL decided his speech was bad for their business, relative to his diminished status as a likely back up (if he were elite, he'd have a job and free reign to kneel).
And by the way, anybody who thinks Alex Jones needs more social media outlets (he still has Twitter although he is now under suspension from them for a week for violating a rule) is free to start a gofundme page and get a new platform going. There are plenty of Alex Jones fans out there to get it started. [Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 08/15/2018 3:59PM]
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