Alex Jones, Free Speech, and Mass Censorship History
Alex Jones and the history of his removal from major social media platforms in 2018 serve as a focal point for a discussion on free speech. Bill Maher and Tucker Carlson are cited as figures who defended the right to speak despite personal disagreements. The mass banning across YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter is characterized as a coordinated effort to silence a voice that challenges government narratives.
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00:00 So you can pretend that you're not under attack. You can pretend everything's fine. You can pretend that the only universe that exists is Netflix, but at the end of the day, you will be impoverished if you're lucky and killed in most cases. And you can play along with the system. I think if you submit to their global social score and their ESGs and their cashless society that you're somehow opting in so you'll be passed over by the system, you'll be left alone when it's you historically that lower the drawbridge to tyranny that the tyrants will eat first. Rallying patriots worldwide in defense of human liberty, it's Alex Jones. So let's take Alex Jones. You don't have to agree with everything Alex Jones says. I like Alex Jones. I do too. But I don't agree with everything Alex Jones says, and you don't have to.
00:58 But Bill Maher famously and credit to him said when Alex Jones got banned, he said we shouldn't be banning people. He said, I hate Alex Jones, but Alex Jones should be allowed to talk. Everyone should be allowed to talk in the town square. Alex Jones, who is not my friend and who tells crazy lies about me, is thrown off Twitter, I think, and Facebook and a few other platforms. I think he's going to be... That's Senator Children, thank God. If you're a liberal you're supposed to be for free speech. That's free speech for the speech you hate. That's what free speech means. We're losing the thread of the concepts that are important to this country. Either you care about the real American s*** or you don't. And if you do it goes for every side. I don't like Alex Jones, but Alex Jones gets to speak. Everybody gets to speak. That
01:48 That's where we all need to be. I feel like when they got Alex Jones, there was no safety net. He is a warrior and he continued fighting and now he's back in the mainstream, good for him. But he was renegaded to his own site with his own servers, streaming every day to small audiences after they axed him off YouTube.
02:25 No one defended him. No one. I was on vacation that day. I was fishing out of the country and the company that I worked for, which is supposedly in favor of free speech, said not one word in his defense. And it's like first they came for Alex Jones. I didn't care because I was Alex Jones. Yeah, it's the old adage. What did you think of Alex Jones? Loved him to death. I still talk to him to this day. I think that he's great and I think that many many more people should have been vocal when he was initially banned. I agree. Because I was actually there. I was on a fishing trip that day. Yeah. I was in Labrador and I've regretted it ever since that I didn't come out of the box. I wasn't there. I was
03:03 I was off the air, but I completely agree. It was not even about Alex Jones. It's about you can't censor people period. Exactly. And Tucker, I remember the exact day when he got censored. I woke up and I looked on my phone and it said Alex Jones banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. He was banned everywhere. It was a mass banning, mass censorship effort to silence him. And again, I really didn't have an introduction into politics, but But I had learned a lot of things from Alex Jones up front and everything that he was telling me was not false. The people who condemn him and say that he's a crazy conspiracy theorist do not listen to his show every single day because I worked for him for two and a half years. I didn't know the three branches of government when I started. Now I can tell you international policy and what's going on all over the world right now because I have listened to Alex.
