Google & You Tube Ban Alex Jones

http://www.infowars.com/update-google-backs-down-restores-collateral-murder-v...
UPDATE (Please read below): UPDATED DEC. 1, 2010 2:20 PM CST — You Tube issued TheAlexJonesChannel a notice reversing its PREVIOUS DECISION to freeze the account. In the newest contact, You Tube writes that "Upon additional review we have reinstated the material and removed any penalties that had been applied to your account."

Only two days ago, YouTube responded to our counter-notification challenging the removal of a Wikileaks massacre video posted by literally hundreds of other media outlets by ruling to freeze our account. Now, thanks to outrage from our listeners and articles slamming the unfair ruling, You Tube has taken the rare and nearly unprecedented step of taking a second look, restoring the video and removing all penalties. Credit goes to You Tube for listening to our criticism.

Ironically, though, even this reversal contains its own spin. Below the decision [see full letter below] is a message recommending that we "appeal the strike" in any future incidents we feel are unjust. However, this appeal process, known as a "DMCA counter-notification" is the exact venue we used to challenge the video's original removal. It was when we DID appeal that You Tube ruled to freeze our account; the removal of the video itself was only a strike that would not have closed or frozen our account.

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http://www.infowars.com/google-you-tube-ban-alex-jones/

Both Google and its subsidiary company You Tube have banned Alex Jones and his websites, as attempts to curtail free speech widen.

Within the past 2-3 weeks, Jones and his team have confirmed that after years of being listed under Google News, one of the largest platforms for news dissemination, that PrisonPlanet.com and Infowars.com have been blocked from its search results, effectively censoring their content from wide web coverage. Only smaller sites that re-post the content have appeared in Google searches since early November.

In a separate matter, TheAlexJonesChannel on YouTube has learned that it will be either frozen or blocked from uploading new content for several weeks following a "Community Guidelines" violation decision. According to YouTube's support team, users from its site flagged a video on the channel that contained controversial video of the Apache helicopter "collateral murder" that occurred in Iraq in 2007 and was released by Wikileaks. When TheAlexJonesChannel attempted to challenge the removal of this video via YouTube's counter-notification form, it was subsequently told that the account would be disabled and new content blocked (apparently due to the challenge, as no other strikes exist on the account).

The graphic content in the video-- which documents real events the Pentagon never wanted released-- has been posted by hundreds of other channels on YouTube, including major media outlets like CBS News and Russia Today without being flagged or removed, yet TheAlexJonesChannel has been told that its posting of a smaller portion of this incident is offensive or otherwise against its community guidelines. This appears to be double standard as even the age-verification barrier set-up for some of the postings was not offered for TheAlexJonesChannel version; it was simple deleted by user demand and YouTube mandate.

It is evident that the system revels in any chance to dampen the loud voice that Alex Jones, Infowars.com/PrisonPlanet.com and its supporters have raised on the Internet, effectively challenging the status quo and mainstream media spin on major news and events. With the easy passage of the web censorship bill, it is further clear that what is happening now to Infowars.com and Alex Jones will soon happen to anyone without a politically-correct message, particularly when that message is capable of resonating throughout large parts of the globe.

It is up to supporters and lovers of freedom to challenge censorship and oppression on the web, because only resistance can slow the attempts to curtail free speech and expression online. As Frederick Douglass said, "Find out just what the people will submit to and you've found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." This will be prove to be more true than ever in the age of the Internet.

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[skittlez1111]

you people are fucking morons. alex is the only guy standing up for you and your freedom and you choose to continually be brainwashed by bullshit and label him a terrorist lover. the level of disgust i have for ignorant fucks like you is sky high and in all reality the facts he states are very real, do the research, have a voice of your own and a mind of your own instead of taking what coorperate media and government force feeds you. your a disgrace to true americans.

[hannedog]

Video posted Nov 29, 2010: Google & YouTube Bans Alex Jones.

416 Days Later, 219,836 views.

[BlueXAssassinx]

@youstupidmoron If you don't like Alex Jones, why do you comment on his videos? The answer is he wants to feel important somewhere.

[youstupidmoron]

It's amazing how idiotic you Alex the terrorist lover Jones cult members are! A person would have to be extremely ignorant or have a serious brain injury to fall for anything that idiots says! I like the time Jones said the Soviets had launched all their ICBM's targeting the U.S. ! Or the time he claimed the U.S. was under martial law a while back! Hilarious!

[youstupidmoron]

@vietscouty good God kid, grow up!

[vietscouty]

@youstupidmoron Apparently you're in denial of what is really going on. For the last decade, I had already knew that America is no more and I was only 21 at the time. I don't fear the govt, because I already know that the govt betrayed this country and its people. Or is it the Establishment? Hmmm...

[vietscouty]

@likeminas Perhaps I should pay for your plane ticket and force you to fly to China and say that shit about their govt on their soil. See what happen your dumb ass. LOL

[likeminas]

alex jones makes hiz money selling bullshit paranoid stories to gullible bots. sadly enough

[Lamvesp]

I'm going to set up 10 Youtube accounts and subcribe to TheAlexJonesChannel. If everyone did that as protest we might actually prove a point and support Alex at the some time, a Youtube bomb. COME ON TROOPS!

[youstupidmoron]

And skittlez, get an education! You sound as ignorant as a 2nd grade drop out.

[youstupidmoron]

Good god skittlez, grow up! Alex the terrorist lover Jones is a fear monger, he makes a living scaring gullible people like yourself. Nothing he says is true and he absolutely does NOT have docents to prove his lies! He really fooled you!