I like my Roku and was pissed about this, so I’m glad they felt the heat.
This human tapeworm tried to exploit the murders of children for profit. He should be in jail. Barring that, he should be living in a piss-soaked cardboard box and yelling on a street corner for quarters.
Trump: Liberals are blocking free speech of The Whites. My supporters do not approve. I will keep the government shut forever.
Squeal like Ned Beatty or a pig, Alex.
Too bad. So sad.
Another small step on the path of sanity…
It would be nice if Colbert could resurrect Tuck Buckford, you know, for comedy relief…
(the best stuff starts at 2:00)
The marketplace has spoken apparently.
Looks like the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace has given Alex Jones The Bird.
Here’s what Jones shat after he got the bad news:
One day!. He lasted ONE fucking day!
Freedom of speech does not give someone the right to yell “Fire” in a theatre. Similarly, it does not give someone the right to spout violent propaganda.
Infowars is a good title, since Jones has long been at war against information.
Way to go Roku, make Alex spend money to launch and the take away his platform.
As usual, we must remind the right wingers that the first amendment does not touch on Roku’s decision.
For this specific incident, we must add that libel is not a point of view.
The free market at work…I guess those ‘Con’ heads will start exploding…
Have clowns like Jones run out of Internet platforms yet?
Infiwars is just a giant infomercial for all the dubious product Jones peddles to the rubes, so Roku has done his viewers a favor.
In a similar vein, TPM commenters will not be surprised to learn that the guy who set up the gofundme for the border wall is in the business of harvesting emails for rental to GOP campaigns (and, presumably, to other grifters). He previously ran at least one fake news site catering to gullible GOPers.
I am a little uncomfortable with the free speech implications.
Yes, I hate Alex Jones and his freewheeling embrace and cultivation of conspiracy theories, hate-mongering, and misinformation. Taking away his megaphone is an unmitigated good thing.
But: he has a right to say most of that stuff, even for an explicitly malign purpose. And I’m not sure we can escape this problem by saying merely that “the free market” has “spoken”: Roku is just another instance of a private entity supplanting the public square, with all the problems and creeping dangers of that general trend. Perhaps Jones has no legal recourse, but that really just illustrates that none of us have any remedies if and when we run afoul of the dictates of the rich corporations that are working so hard to eviscerate public life and thereby break resistance to their agenda of privatization and bowdlerization.
I don’t trust a profit-seeking enterprise to safeguard my interests, primarily because it’s their fiduciary responsibility to do whatever it takes to achieve market dominance.
It’s Jones today, and good riddance. But when the next Malcom X finds him- or herself in the same boat, we will rightly be less enthusiastic about casually ceding control of the public square to folks who care only about their share price.
Remember your Moonves: “it may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.” If we continue to let folks like him adjudicate issues like this, we’ll create a real dystopia, despite the occasional good outcome.
Good. I hope he’s forever silenced
There are no free speech implications.
The government is not in any way stifling Jones’ ability to be a public asshole and liar.
Roku is a private business, and has the absolute right to allow or disallow any particular person, group, or company from using its proprietary platform.
This is good business.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Not that long ago, the townfolk would take human scum like him and put him in the stocks in the public square to be pelted with rotten vegetables (or worse).