While Alex Jones may not have many fans among progressives (or does he???), the removal of his content by Google, Facebook Apple, and Spotify, has implications for everyone who posts anything controversial.
Are these companies best equipped to be the arbitrators of truth? Who decides? Will this just encourage even more conspiracies and make a martyr out of Jones?
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
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