{"id":373100,"date":"2018-08-12T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-bans-dont-seem-to-be-lessening-reach-of-alex-jones-infowars\/"},"modified":"2018-08-12T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T14:22:13","slug":"prison-planet-com-bans-dont-seem-to-be-lessening-reach-of-alex-jones-infowars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-bans-dont-seem-to-be-lessening-reach-of-alex-jones-infowars\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Bans don\u2019t seem to be lessening reach of Alex Jones, InfoWars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/business\/bans-don-seem-lessening-reach-alex-jones-infowars\/Xo1jC96JodMuYqZDYMVQjO\/\"><strong>Austin American Statesman<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the nation\u2019s largest technology and social media companies have tried to stop Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories. But in a digital world, their attempts seem to have barely slowed him down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/local\/alex-jones-infowars-clips-pulled-youtube-facebook-others\/2MFdG1nJEJgErU1tsl4wXI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" shape=\"rect\">YouTube, Facebook and others this week removed content by Jones and his website<\/a>, the InfoWars leader, talk show host and Austin resident fired back, accusing the companies of censorship and urging his audience to fight back against what he called an \u201cunprecedented attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.real.video\/embed\/5820681306001\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jones\u2019 website and other online platforms have remained popular destinations.<\/p>\n<p>InfoWars continues to see more than 1 million page visits per day and has trended upward this month, according to Amazon\u2019s Alexa website traffic report, which also said InfoWars averages more than 25 million page views per month.<\/p>\n<p>Consumers still can access InfoWars through the same tech companies that just banned it. Google still offers the Infowars app for Android users, and Apple customers can download it through the App Store.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the show\u2019s phone app remained near the top of the charts in both the Apple App and Google Play stores. Infowars Official, an app that lets viewers stream Jones\u2019 shows and read news of the day, was ranked fourth among trending apps in the Google Play store Friday. In the news category on Apple\u2019s App Store, Infowars earned the fourth slot under the top free apps, behind Twitter and News Break, a local and breaking news service, revealing a sudden boost of user downloads.<!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p>Apple told The Washington Post in a written statement: \u201cWe put great effort into curating the App Store to provide the very best experience for everyone. We strongly support all points of view being represented on the App Store, as long as the apps are respectful to users with differing opinions, and follow our clear guidelines, ensuring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/bans-dont-seem-to-be-lessening-reach-of-alex-jones-infowars.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin American StatesmanAugust 12, 2018 Some of the nation\u2019s largest technology and social media companies have tried to stop Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories. But in a digital world, their attempts seem to have barely slowed him down. After\u00a0YouTube, Facebook and others this week removed content by Jones and his website, the InfoWars leader, [&hellip;]<\/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-373100","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\/373100","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=373100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}