re: Infowars is gone from FB and Youtube - and now more are coming

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208,000: 2013 grant by National Institutes of Health to University of Rochester to use Twitter to study "disease spread, mental health in a hard-to-reach population, and presence and extent of 'natural helping' in promoting wellness and reducing norms supporting violence in low-income urban neighborhoods"

• $125,000 + $100,000: Grants by NIH to University of Washington to study Twitter and how to use it to identify "deviant behavior" -- or tracking when someone Tweets violent or death threats (grants were in 2012-13)

• $11,000: State Department expense for outside analysis of U.S. embassy Twitter and Facebook accounts (2012)

• $42,000: DOT for a contractor to "design, develop, implement, evaluate and enhance" the Federal Railroad Administration's social media accounts pages (2012)

• $260,000: Federal Emergency Management Agency to an outside company to "analyze news clips in which FEMA was mentioned, including times on social media sites like Twitter" (2012)

Source: NIH, FedBizOpps websites


Ya might want to rethink that congressional oversight thing, too.

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Why did you respond with this to me?

Do some more heavy day drinking, you're almost there

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Protections from what?

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You want big brother until big brother gets used against you.

you're missing the point hoss. we can play semantics all day long on our differing opinions of political commentators.

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The Internet is a big place. Jones still has his own personal Infowars web portal with all the videos and livestreams. The only difference now is he won't be able to suck the tit of free bandwidth hosting from Youtube.

I don't have a problem with his ban. Facebook is a private company and can set their own rules. If conservatives don't like it, they should pool their money and start a competing social media platform. Simple as that. There's plenty of rich conservative venture capitalists out there.

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I wonder why this hasn't happened yet. Maybe all the VCs in silicon valley are too scared?

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I am strictly responding to the poster that said that. I never said they needed to be banned too, I am pointing out their hypocrisy.

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Yeah, we know they're hypocritical. We've known that well before today.

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you're missing the point hoss. we can play semantics all day long on our differing opinions of political commentators.

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I didn't miss your point

Just that Jones isn't "borderline", he is a full on conspiracy theorist

I don't think that is really debatable nor semantics

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You want big brother until big brother gets used against you.

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Facebook and Youtube aren't Big Brother. Why do you crazy people think they're government entities?

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How do you have a business which bathes itself by the second in free speech but shuts down speech it doesn't like? Seems hypocritical. You're also going to add more fuel to the fire for all sorts.

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Content distributors, especially ones that distribute your content for free, have a right to control what is distributed. For instance, pornography is banned on td.com, although pornography is considered free speech. Should td.com be forced to distribute pornography (at their cost) b.c it is speech? Should youtube (or td.com) ban users that personally threaten other users? Shoudl they be able to restrict users ability to spanm?

I think most people would be fine with them restricting all of those things. So that means, they are going to have policies to address these things. I am fine with them having policies, as long as they are clearly documented and evenly enforced.

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When you use their platforms they dictate the terms and conditions. FB nor YouTube have nothing to do with regards to the 1A.

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I don’t disagree, but they can easily control the flow of information. That’s power. The ultimate power. That should scare anyone, regardless of political affiliation. Now, what can be done about it, idk. But I think it’s reasonable to be concerned.