{"id":372564,"date":"2018-08-08T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/zero-transparency-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T10:57:02","slug":"zero-transparency-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/zero-transparency-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero Transparency – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even though the internet is aflame with controversy over the coordinated purge of Alex Jones and<\/strong> InfoWars from Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and\u00a0 Apple, there is no real transparency over their decision and the process by which it was made.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Jones and InfoWars have been top Twitter trends for hours, and even some left-wing journalists like Michael Tracey are\u00a0decrying<\/a>\u00a0Silicon Valley\u2019s Masters of the Universe appointing themselves the arbiters of free speech on the web.<\/p>\n

But Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube have offered, at most, only copy and paste explanations for why they banned InfoWars content from their platforms \u2014 or why, after months of pressure from the Democrats and CNN, they all came to the same decision on the same day. Questions about transparency have a much broader scope that just the case of InfoWars and Alex Jones. Beyond the\u00a0banning<\/a>\u00a0of other individuals such as Tommy Robinson, the same questions apply to a whole host of actions by the Masters of the Universe, including partnering with foreign governments to shut down accounts,\u00a0shadowbanning<\/a>\u00a0users to limit the scope of their engagement, and mass user purges.<\/p>\n

Breitbart News sent the following questions to Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple earlier today, and have yet to receive a real answer for most of them. Apple and YouTube chose to provide the same canned statement they provided to all other media outlets who contacted them, while Facebook and Spotify ignored our request entirely.<\/p>\n

THE QUESTIONS SILICON VALLEY WON\u2019T ANSWER
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1) What content specifically from InfoWars\/Alex Jones was found to be\u201dhate speech\u201d and otherwise rule breaking?<\/strong><\/p>\n

InfoWars\u00a0editor-at-large Paul…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even though the internet is aflame with controversy over the coordinated purge of Alex Jones and InfoWars from Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and\u00a0 Apple, there is no real transparency over their decision and the process by which it was made. Alex Jones and InfoWars have been top Twitter trends for hours, and even some left-wing journalists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}