Alex Jones is the internet’s most notorious conspiracy theorist. And with his site, Infowars, he’s peddled a number of dark and bizarre conspiracy theories. “Sandy Hook, it’s got inside job written all over it. You want us to cover Pizzagate. We have covered it. We are covering it. And all I know is — God help us — we’re in the hands of pure evil.” After weeks of criticism, YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify all acted to essentially erase many of his videos and posts from their services. In many cases, the companies are saying he violated their terms regarding hate speech and a number of other rules. Alex Jones today in his show dedicated nearly all four hours to what he called censorship of his platform. “And President Trump, the Republican Congress, the statehouses, independent media all need to rally together against this global move to censor America and the planet.” And this is something that he essentially has been warning his followers of because there was sort of ticky-tacky enforcement for several weeks, and he sort of saw this coming. “This is the internet purge, people.” I think for those who have tracked the social media policies by some of these big tech firms, today was a significant moment, because these tech companies have really struggled with this dilemma of wanting to combat misinformation online, but at the same time not wanting to become arbiters of truth. “Can you define hate speech?” “Senator, I think that this is a really hard question. And I think it’s one of the reasons why we struggle with it.” For months, and really for years, the tech companies have been reluctant to weigh in on a lot of these controversial speech issues. But it appears after months of criticism, that tech companies have finally said, in the case of Alex Jones, that enough is enough.