Let’s get Alex Jones out of the way first. When I met the alt-right blogger, he was an incontinent yelling madman who believed that 9/11 was an inside job and that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim. He later added to his repertoire by claiming that school shootings such as Sandy Hook were hoaxes, that their small victims were still alive and that their grieving parents were complicit. Some of these mums and dads were harassed by Jones’s demented followers and had to move house.

I think it was largely because of this last horror that some of the big tech companies decided to turf him off their platforms this week. It’s a problematic decision in my opinion, but then I am something of a