Alex Jones has been banned from almost all major social media platforms, and now is serving a 7 day Twitter suspension for tweeting about the censorship. The Twitter suspension comes after an intense and obsessive campaign by a CNN reporter who appears to be spending every waking hour trying to get Jones banned.
Twitter spox confirms to me that the company has limited key functions on Alex Jones’ account after determining he violated another one of network’s policies. He can still browse Twitter, but can’t tweet, retweet, etc. for 7 days. Jones also required to delete offending tweet.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 15, 2018
Important to note that tech platforms did not enforce their own rules and take action against Alex Jones / InfoWars on their own accord.
It took media outlets to point out for weeks that InfoWars was skirting the rules on these tech platforms for them to enforce own standards.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 6, 2018
Oliver Darcy, who works as a CNN senior media reporter has been writing about trying to get Jones banned for some time, and even spent time going through Alex Jones’ past tweets, trying to find something that he could report to Twitter to get Jones banned.
Twitter said it would have taken action against Alex Jones/InfoWars had the content that got them in trouble w/Facebook & YouTube been posted on Twitter.
But all of the content that initially led to YouTube/FB taking action is, in fact, posted to Twitterhttps://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
A CNN review of InfoWars' and Jones' Twitter accounts found promotion of Sandy Hook / Parkland conspiracies, attacks on individuals based on their gender identity & religion, targeted harassment, videos glorifying violence, and more cc: @jack https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
I told Twitter Wednesday morning content that prompted other tech companies to take action against InfoWars/Jones was on Twitter. A spox declined to say if Twitter would review. Then @delbius suggested later that such content wasn't on Twitter? Perplexing. https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i pic.twitter.com/E1cPB0mkvc
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
Darcy is constantly tweeting about Alex Jones’ activities, and it is quite clear that the CNN reporter is suffering from a derangement syndrome.
Update: All 20 of the tweets/videos in our story about how InfoWars / Alex Jones have violated Twitter standards have been deleted https://t.co/WpEZsLjr0i pic.twitter.com/skAmob4TfL
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
FWIW, I only had time to watch a sliver of the hundreds of hours of video that InfoWars/Jones have uploaded to Twitter. Most of the InfoWars shows are streamed and archived in their entirety on Twitter's platform. There's probably a lot more there.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 9, 2018
Joined @anacabrera to talk about Twitter & InfoWars. Twitter now admits InfoWars violated its rules, but it's still allowing InfoWars & Alex Jones to remain on its platform — a move that is leaving some wondering why no meaningful action has been taken https://t.co/kagazmzK9G pic.twitter.com/x849YVX4P7
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 11, 2018
imagine if your job was to watch alex jones all day and then try to get him erased from the internet
— Ryan (@alwaysonoffense) August 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1026574140596084736
My personal message to CNN’s Oliver Darcy, who is leading the crusade, on behalf of CNN, to have all offensive speech “banned”. pic.twitter.com/cfiIq5Hn1J
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1029544743502532609
Anyone who complains about censorship and press freedoms being limited, then leads a campaign to censor and limit press freedom can fuck off. @CNN
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
Must ban all the interesting people.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
This is a rhetorical war between boring people and interesting people.
Everything else in popular culture has been sanitized and made predictable.
Now it’s time to purge the Internet and social media of the last interesting people.
Authenticity must be eradicated.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
Authenticity is what they fear the most.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
Newsflash for “conservatives” who think they can avoid being banned by staying silent during this purge; You’re next.
Intellectual cowards.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) August 15, 2018
Darcy isn’t alone in his obsession with Jones, he has a CNN sidekick called Paul P. Murphy, who has been gathering intelligence on Jones and Infowars for the best part of the entire YEAR:
CNN discovered ads on InfoWars' channels from companies and organizations such as @Nike, @Acer , @20thcenturyfox, @paramountnet, @LDSchurch, @moen , @Expedia, @AlibabaGroup, @homeaway , the @NRA, Honey, @Wix and @classpass . Even @Refugees. https://t.co/7RbkWaKqGb
— Paul P. Murphy (@murphy_paulp) March 3, 2018
CNN's Paul Murphy reporting minute-by-minute updates on Alex Jones ads being removed… pic.twitter.com/MaCZju5pjv
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 9, 2018
Hmmm. Looks like Paul Murphy has been "following" the Alex Jones story for a while.
And by that I mean, the deplatforming parts. pic.twitter.com/eZa97KX7Jc
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 9, 2018
Oh! CNN "discovered" Alex Jones YouTube ads were running, and let these companies know that. https://t.co/sSKJAmNVlx pic.twitter.com/g4sLnvCv3q
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1027681626627756033
> "repeated messages to press contact"
> story about how CNN "discovered" Alex Jones/Info Wars adsI don't know a much more straightforward way of presenting a case of CNN exerting media pressure here. That's what this looks like. https://t.co/SqYHYCnC79 https://t.co/lxid7vSx6S pic.twitter.com/5fJ7CDUqhj
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 9, 2018
Furthermore @murphy_paulp , I'd like to know why you failed to investigate The Young Turks for a similar vein of "Info Wars" style controversy when you were presented with it.
All you seem to care about is Alex Jones.https://t.co/cOeDoV0CRS pic.twitter.com/DG3FrjPYIN
— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 9, 2018
> **CNN breathing down the neck**
The sad part is there's probably more of these. https://t.co/nGnokDc5b8 https://t.co/S9pnSJRpy9 https://t.co/xrG7bTwdZi pic.twitter.com/tZjaGEWLvA— Nick Monroe (@nickmon1112) August 10, 2018
.@Apple and @Google did not respond to @CNN's inquiries about whether it was appropriate to list the conspiracy theory website in the same category as legitimate news organizations. https://t.co/rtBKspdKqj
— Paul P. Murphy (@murphy_paulp) August 6, 2018
However, it is Darcy that is clearly the most obsessive deranged CNN freak:
Unclear what is going on over at InfoWars, but the website has been unavailable all day (possible DDoS attack). Now users are being greeted by this message when they visit. pic.twitter.com/1PTTAZU3pU
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 14, 2018
He’s literally sat at a computer pressing refresh on Infowars.com:
(This was the error being displayed earlier) pic.twitter.com/UdXWRrbG4Z
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 14, 2018
Vimeo has removed InfoWars content. Business Insider reports employees had been upset the account was on the platform, and had turned to Slack to express their dissatisfaction https://t.co/NBwThlvIzm
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 13, 2018
And listening to the Alex Jones show on repeat:
Alex Jones said on his InfoWars program today that he was responsible for deleting the tweets included in our story. He said "just to take the super high road" he told his staff to "delete it."
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
—@CaseyNewton: “Why Facebook banned Alex Jones — and Twitter didn’t: Facebook knows the end of this story, and Twitter is still catching up” https://t.co/TW7mlsxGIW
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 11, 2018
The New York Times reports Twitter employees have “heaped ire” on @jack for failing to take action against Alex Jones and InfoWars https://t.co/i8d8T4LY2r
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 11, 2018
ICYMI, Twitter conceded on Friday night that InfoWars has, in fact, broken its rules (contrary to what @jack declared earlier in the week). But Twitter says, despite the violations, Alex Jones & InfoWars will be permitted to stay on the platform. https://t.co/Fs79qeUuWd
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 11, 2018
New: After our review of the Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts, Twitter now concedes rules were violated multiple times. But it says InfoWars and Jones will remain on the platform for now. https://t.co/qAGHod4QB3
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 11, 2018
In his spare time, when he’s not tweeting about Alex, and studying Infowars, or appearing on CNN to talk about how evil Alex is, Darcy appears on basement dweller podcasts, and talks about ‘taking down Alex Jones’:
Honestly, it just goes on and on and on…
Hey @jack, since you’re responding to stories in the press, maybe you can offer your thoughts on our story that shows Alex Jones / InfoWars appear to have repeatedly violated Twitter’s rules, despite statements from you otherwise. https://t.co/Gax8p1Y9gx
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
Also @jack, maybe you could explain why @delbius said in her note that the content that led YouTube/FB to taking action against InfoWars was not on Twitter, when in fact all the videos that led those companies to initially taking action were in fact also on Twitter.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
per @kevinroose, Zuckerberg discussed InfoWars "at length with other executives" and "mused privately" about whether Alex Jones was intentionally trying to get kicked off Facebook as a ploy for attention https://t.co/0kwj4I4j6M
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
—@kevinroose nails it. This seems to be one of main reasons why social media companies have been reluctant to enforce their standards when it comes to Jones/InfoWars https://t.co/0kwj4I4j6M pic.twitter.com/xCQD8771WN
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
Other than a Twitter spox telling me Twitter was not responsible for deleting all the tweets referenced in our story, haven’t heard a word from them. Total silence. https://t.co/ZKK0P1nZgR
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 10, 2018
So brave.
@oliverdarcy has tweeted/mentioned Alex Jones, 21 times in 6 days. Darcy should change his bio to "Senior Alex Jones Reporter, CNN"
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) August 15, 2018
#journalism https://t.co/oARrbrPONb
— Sean Medlock (@Sean_Medlock) August 15, 2018
Not all heroes wear capes https://t.co/nyElatzrUF
— Ben McDonald (@Bmac0507) August 15, 2018
You’re the real hero Oliver…. https://t.co/6WrJ5adRGr
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 15, 2018
Twitter monitors are losers. https://t.co/UtAuoeDSqa
— Jeb Bos (@BigJebBos) August 15, 2018
The offending tweet being the one where Alex Jones says Trump has to stop the censorship. https://t.co/bD38rJaP91
— Girl_Grimly (@ed_grimly) August 15, 2018
@jack and @twitter have you asked yourself why @oliverdarcy and the media has gone after @RealAlexJones but don’t go after @LouisFarrakhan who spews real bigotry and hate as well as encourages violence? Just curious as to why Jones is the Media and Social Media target. Politics? https://t.co/krE92gTBSk
— ChrisOnPolitics (@USA_First_2016) August 15, 2018
Lets remember, however, that this isn’t some triggered leftist kid in a chat room, this is a CNN reporter being paid to monitor Alex Jones and then to lobby companies to censor and deplatform him:
News outlet preening while basically working to silence others’ speech. This is CNN. https://t.co/OaxPTyROrI
— DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) August 15, 2018
How much does CNN pay for surveillance work? https://t.co/X6CyBa0q1e
— Kris Kinder (@kris_kinder) August 15, 2018
Such bravery from CNN. They've been working so hard to get a conspiracy theorist banned from the internet. Just like the troops and firefighters. https://t.co/xLFww2zSRE
— Jim Simonetti (@Jimmy_Stick) August 15, 2018
What a Hero. Round of applause for Oliver here, who so bravely used a multi-billion dollar media corporation to pressure a social media company into punishing an account he doesn’t like of a deranged water filter and vitamin salesman. Just like a firefighter. https://t.co/hFsAf2djPE
— PL4Y3R 0N3 (@PL4Y3R_0N3) August 15, 2018
Oliver Darcy Thought Cop.
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 9, 2018
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/ScotsFyre/status/1027659236602507265
Just who in hell appointed @CNN to be the internet police? An arsonist started the California fires yet cnn continues to say its because of climate change. Fn idiots.
— ❌USA PROUD❌ (@USA_defender1) August 9, 2018
Thank you creepy little guy for your protection
— WTF Oh Hell no (@mrwoodsbiteme) August 9, 2018
Neat. Now go after antifa and other radical left hate groups.
— Chris (@CML_Texas) August 9, 2018
If you people put half the energy into reporting real news as you do into ruining Alex Jones' life, you wouldn't be dead last in the ratings and @Acosta wouldn't be reduced to a muttering idiot every day at the White House. #FAKENEWS
— Nasir (@nasirccv) August 9, 2018
@CNN hall monitors still trying to stifle free speech. Who's your next target? https://t.co/ps31xm6IO1
— Deplorable Petr (@PragueArtist) August 9, 2018
It looks like @cnn 's @oliverdarcy has annointed himself the voluntary chief of the speech police. This is not reporting but despicable bloodthirsty hateful witch hunt. Where is free speech?
— Gina Bella (@ginabella) August 9, 2018
Very interesting thread about CNN acting as the media arm of a progressive silencing campaign, again. https://t.co/OCyziPsa6k
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) August 9, 2018
Crazed MSM Have A Vendetta Against Alex Jones
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