The Infowars’ twitter feed on Tuesday declared the recent social media and streaming bans against the company were a “Communist China Style Censorship.”

The Founder of Infowars, syndicated radio host Alex Jones, had also said on Monday that “America has been sold out” after tech giants like YouTube, Apple, Facebook, and Spotify moved to limit Infowars-related content from their platforms.

The tech companies YouTube and Facebook have cited repeated violations of their terms of service and community policies regarding hate speech and graphic violence, while Spotify announced a total ban Monday after it removed some episodes of the Alex Jones Show off its streaming services last Thursday.

Early on Monday, Facebook posted an announcement that it had removed four Infowars’ pages, the Alex Jones Channel page, the Alex Jones page, the Infowars page, and the Infowars Nightly News page, after already removing videos citing bullying and hate speech. Jones had personally received a 30-day suspension from Facebook.

Facebook has repeatedly warned Jones and punished channels associated with him for violations of community standards. YouTube and Spotify have both followed suit.

A YouTube spokesman told NPR that they cancel accounts when they breach “policies against hate speech and harassment or our terms prohibiting circumvention”.

Apparently in reaction to the July 24th ban against Infowars from live-streaming, Jones’ channel attempted to send viewers to other channels that were live-streaming for Infowars on YouTube.

Spotify said it investigated violations and the flagging of content seriously and on Monday said “the Alex Jones Show had lost access to the Spotify platform.” Spotify had previously said it removed episodes of the Alex Jones Show, while not specifying how many or which episodes were removed.

This Sunday, Apple announced that they had deleted five podcasts related to Infowars and Jones, citing the company’s staunch opposition to hate speech.

The company said, “we believe in representing a wide range of views” but warned it was only as long as people were respectful to those with diverging perspectives.

Jones is also facing five defamation suits, related to allegations that he knowingly spread false information about the violent protests in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High this year, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.

In late July, Jones attempted to get one of the defamation cases dismissed, to which the plaintiffs and the parents of a Sandy Hook victim responded in court documents between 2013 and 2016, stating that Jones “took to the air on over twenty occasions” claiming “that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged and that the Plaintiffs and other parents were actors in a ghastly plot to fabricate a national tragedy.”

Large tech companies are facing renewed scrutiny for the amount of false news stories and hate on their platforms and have stepped up their attempts to curb the manipulation of information.

Since Monday, accounts related to Infowars on Instagram and Twitter have not been taken down. Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, stated that Jones had not violated Twitters’ rules.

The moves come after Facebook made an announcement of targeted campaign manipulation on its platform ahead of the midterm elections November 6th, as reported by the New York Times.

Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars’ editor at large, claimed that the tech companies were not enforcing “terms of service,” and were the ones committing “real election meddling”. Jones called the bans a “mega purge.”

Watson tweeted that the moves were meant to force conservatives to “moderate their opinions and speech just to ensure the survival of their social media platforms.”

“This neutralizes them politically… It’s intellectual castration. It’s all a power play,” said Watson.

Facebook denies “fake news” has anything to do with the removal of Jones, citing instead the repeated violations of Facebook’s “graphic violence policy” and the use of “dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims, and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies.”