I'm sure many by now are aware of Youtube's ban on Alex Jones and Infowars. This recent event comes right after he was kicked off iTunes and Facebook. Now the claims against Alex and Infowars can't be quickly dismissed, but does this mean that we are seeing the beginning of true censorship? Does this mean that this could be the golden opportunity for the Blockchain to show its true potential?



As the host of a weekly free speech show, I basically don't agree with any kind of censorship. Not because of law, or constitutional fortitude or holyness, but because of the basic human right of expression (and I also want to know where the stupid people are). Aside from that, how do the self-appointed rulers of mankind think this whole thing is going to play? Will Alex Jones be stopped? Or will he simply be validated? Will his theories, as crazy as someone might call them, be thought "true" just because these actions were taken against him?

These actions, these events, are going to have giant ripples for the world. Not only because it's painfully obvious now to see that there is nothing remotely close to freedom of speech on the "traditional" online mediums of communication, but because now it seems that the "diversity at any cost" people are celebrating the destruction of diversity of opinion with no sense of irony. As was seen with Stefan Molyneux and Laura Southern in New Zealand, the mainstream media driven cult is doing everything it can to push the counter-culture underground.

It takes but one gander on twitter to see the lemmings celebrating the destruction of Alex Jones, as if said thing actually happened. It seems to be they are up for a rude awakening, all this has done is reinforced everything he has ever stood for, and the "Streisand Effect" is now in full swing.

If you know your history, you should be able to see the problem with these events. Are the people at Facebook, Youtube, etc in such a bubble that they can't see these glaring pitfalls? Do they have enough confidence in their dominance of the market to just not care? Do they want to drive people to new platforms to find the content they want?

Regardless of your political spectrum, of where you think your stand on this, you must accept one thing, and one thing alone. The ideas we may hold on freedom don't exist as we think, and the Eagle we think represents these ideals is nothing more than a mask for the power behind it.

Do we really believe this is society protecting itself? Do we really think the government had no hand in this? I don't know, but I can't help but to be extremely suspicious and so should you. What I do know is this presents an opportunity to direct him here, which could lead to a mass exodus of content creators flooding to steem if we can get his attention.