{"id":351778,"date":"2018-03-12T03:41:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T02:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-right-wing-infowars-channel\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T03:41:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T02:41:09","slug":"youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-right-wing-infowars-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-right-wing-infowars-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube threatens to shut down right-wing Infowars channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>YouTube threatens to shut down right-wing Infowars channel<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Tr\u00e9von Austin<br \/>\n    <br \/>10 March 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On March 3, right-wing radio host Alex Jones, publisher of the conspiracy theorist website Infowars, tweeted that his YouTube profile, called the \u201cAlex Jones Channel\u201d, had been frozen and received warnings that \u201call 33 thousand videos\u201d would be erased within 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, a YouTube spokesperson confirmed that the company had removed advertisements from the channel, in a move known as \u201cdemonetization.\u201d Several videos posted by the channel have already been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Infowars is a clearinghouse for right-wing conspiracy theories and a gathering place for neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Jones, who has his origins in the far-right militia movement, declared on his program last year that Democrats and communists were planning to unleash \u201cwhite genocide.\u201d He was also one of the main proponents of \u201cPizzagate,\u201d claiming that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor. Jones has been praised by the editor of the <em>Daily Stormer<\/em> and other far-right figures around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, censoring Jones\u2019 channel has only brought more attention to the right-wing demagogue. Jones, whom claims to be \u201canti-establishment,\u201d announced that his account was facing \u201cthe biggest censorship we have ever seen.\u201d YouTube targeting his channel serves to confirm his allegations, garnering him more support among layers of the population who are opposed to the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>In bringing attention to the implications of YouTube censoring the Alex Jones Channel, the WSWS remains resolutely opposed to the retrograde politics of Jones and those who associate with him. However, the WSWS defends the democratic right to free speech on the Internet and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/03\/10\/ytaj-m10.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 YouTube threatens to shut down right-wing Infowars channel By Tr\u00e9von Austin 10 March 2018 On March 3, right-wing radio host Alex Jones, publisher of the conspiracy theorist website Infowars, tweeted that his YouTube profile, called the \u201cAlex Jones Channel\u201d, had been frozen and received warnings that \u201call 33 thousand videos\u201d would be erased within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}