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Bush in public, thanks to his probing mind and open platform, Jones got to interview now President Donald Trump on his show after Trump won the presidency. Since then, the left dominated Silicon Valley tech companies seem to have been slowly chipping away at InfoWars’ presence on their platforms, implementing shadow bans and censoring their content. While this outright (and obviously planned) removal is shocking, what is more worrying is what this means for the future of discussion in politics.\n\nA TRACK RECORD OF FAKE NEWS\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNbnG3R5YRoxv7aRHkdthYuZaeEF1aX48NhrAjH4x4QBi/image.png)\n\nSomething that cannot be ignored is the horrible hypocrisy that mainstream sites like CNN and the New York Times are committing, in supporting the censorship of InfoWars and Alex Jones. In every think piece labeled as actual journalism that has been put out on the topic, the two recurring reasons that support the censorship are merely that InfoWars is biased and that InfoWars has misreported stories and/or push conspiracy theories that don’t have evidence to back them up. Let that sink in. A publication like the New York Times, who in its century and a half existence has probably published enough objectively false and obviously biased reporting that tomes larger than the Bible could be filled many times over is criticizing a site for bad reporting. Alex Jones is blamed for questioning whether or not the U.S. government aided in 9/11 or whether or not they commit false flag attacks on their own people in order to gain more power, which if you’re wondering, declassified reports have confirmed the government has indeed planned to commit such acts in the past. Meanwhile, WashPo, NYT, CNN, and many more all pushed Bush-era lies of WMD’s, and has kept/continues to keep the American people in the dark on vital foreign policy information, supporting seemingly endless conflict abroad with no oversight or morality.\n\nMuch like the obvious defense of Fox News when it is called out for being right-leaning (why can’t the American Right have at least one outlet?), why is it taboo for more libertarian leaning Americans to have a news site that leans towards distrust of government and the extreme protection of America’s founding liberties? I’ve mentioned previously on this site that modern journalism schools teach their students that a journalists job isn’t to report the news, but rather to tell the public how to interpret and feel about the news. Understanding this, it is clear why the mainstream hates InfoWars and all that it stands for, a site that promotes truth seeking, free will, and rejection of authoritarian rule. What is worth looking deeper at is what effect this has on our society going forward.\n\nAN ENDLESS GAME OF PONG\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQme7KcpRd6DAgLDbL4nPq4da4Zn4XtywEZ2JHBtDujBwAN/image.png)\n\nSomething important to understand is that yes, a monolithic company like Facebook does indeed have the right to censor InfoWars off their platform. Every company banning Alex Jones and crew did it in the right way, claiming that InfoWars was and has been violating all sorts of terms and policies of these platforms, and that banning them is an appropriate form of reprimand. What they don’t understand though is that their fib about InfoWars being dangerous is actually harmful for society. Whether you like it or not, InfoWars is not a fringe group of insane whack jobs, writing lies 24/7. No matter what left or right wing journalists want you to think, InfoWars isn’t exclusively listened to by tin foil hat wearing hermits. In fact, InfoWars has a rather large reach, and a lot of their audience is comprised of folks with the same mindset that draws people to alternative news platforms like the Rubin Report or the Daily Wire. It’s been rather annoying watching right wing outlets reluctantly support InfoWars through their censorship, as if those who watch the Ben Shapiro Show are somehow more erudite and refined than an Alex Jones listener.\n\nThe point to be made is that now that social media sites have pulled the trigger on InfoWars, they are now saying that anything like InfoWars is officially too taboo for general society. Millions of young people get their opinions from what they can find on Facebook and YouTube, and if all they know about InfoWars is that they were banned for being false and offensive news, then they’ll believe that. Those that know how ridiculous that is are only going to be further isolated from mainstream culture than they already probably are. The obvious problem then is what comes next? For every poor soul brainwashed by Marxist university teachings, claiming that the fear of continuing censorship is merely succumbing to slippery slope fallacy, I ask you to remember when Hillary Clinton called Pepe the Frog “hate speech”. I ask you to remember when shadow banning was supposed to just be a myth. I ask you to remember when gay rights activists promised that the social conversation would never progress to trying to normalize pedophelia. It is clearer than ever that journalists, politicians, and activists are trying to create their own world with their own rulebook, creating chaos and destruction out of what was once order and peace. There’s really no way to discuss these events without sounding like Alex Jones, who to his credit has been warning about these very outcomes for years.\n\nCUT OFF YOUR NOSE\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTwawDHdiVNvwn1TFUKPsbvGbPAhuFu2TmbHCeLf1qshz/image.png)\n\nIt’s impossible sometimes to not feel pessimistic when events like these play out. It might sound strange, but there continues to be a silver lining though, even with all the chaos. While it’s horrible that InfoWars was censored off these platforms, which could possibly lead to more and more censorship of the right, conservatives and libertarians have been begging to switch platforms for ages now. Ever since Facebook and YouTube started flexing their biased political muscles publicly, people have been yearning to get off of these soul draining and clearly corrupt systems. The problem has been that these platforms are so effective, and have such large numbers of people on them, that like a black hole, it feels impossible to generate enough acceleration to escape. Ironically, by kicking InfoWars off their platform, much like when comedian Owen Benjamin was banned off Twitter, or when senate hopeful Austin Petersen was banned off Facebook (and Twitter), the people who already support these figures only dig in and get more emboldened. InfoWars really doesn’t need YouTube to survive as a platform, an uber successful website with advertising, a merchandise store, a famously mocked line of health products, and much more will continue to keep the site alive. InfoWars provides value to people’s lives, which is why it is impossible to kill. It’s almost as if people don’t recognize the very name of the site: INFORMATION WARS, and all of the irony that goes into trying to stop them by censoring information.\n\nWhile cutting off InfoWars from these major platforms certainly won’t kill any of them, I think this was hands down the major misstep that will ultimately spell doom for them. All YouTube has to do is ban Steven Crowder, or Ben Shapiro, and the outcry would be deafening. Attempts to even shadowban someone like Jordan Peterson have been met with utter contempt, and now these platforms are backed into a corner. If they continue this attempt to call anti-leftist views as fringe and offensive, then the push back could ultimately kill their platform. If they do nothing about it, then they are “enabling” the very content they’ve been campaigning so viscously against, but said content will get so powerful that any further attempt to censor will be met with greater outcry.\n\n![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNirwtaHHC6fMFGZQreyQiVswZhwW6fwUi58AGijgu4MQ/image.png)\n\nDon’t mistake what happened to InfoWars as anything but a disturbing power play, acted out in the form of censorship. Unfortunately, alternative media does what it does best, and continues to fight amongst itself, arguing over whether or not censoring InfoWars was justified. Alas, even great minds are human, and passion often leads to conflict. The important thing to remember is that no matter how the numbers in the economy look, or how well the Republicans do or don’t do in the midterms, politics runs downstream from culture, and there’s a clear stranglehold on our culture from a very specific group. InfoWars will continue to fight the good fight, but we all have to as well. Culture wars are won through attrition, and if you don’t think that your beliefs are next to be attacked, you are gravely mistaken.",
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      "body": "Here’s an analysis from a Japanese publication questioning the amendments to Japanese law:\nhttps://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170427/p2a/00m/0na/016000c \n \nI think it's important on occasion to keep up to date on what’s going on with governmental decisions outside of the U.S. and Europe. While there have been several significant events these past couple days, (Congressmen shooting, London fire, Poland rejecting EU migration mandate) I find a seemingly more mundane event to be the more interesting to cover. The Japanese government has been voting on amendments to existing anti-terror and anti-terror conspiracy laws that has drastically increased the amount of activities that fall into the illegal bracket. The amount of crimes now considered acts of terror is now 277, and they include some pretty strange or benign activities. On one side are officials who want to secure Japan’s borders and security for the upcoming 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. On the other side are officials and citizens who are concerned with the ever growing power of the government in citizen’s lives under the pretense of anti-terror. Sound familiar? Let’s take a closer look at what these amendments entail.\n \nThe best place to start when analyzing this bill is to look at not just what activities the Japanese government want to outlaw, but also how much power this bill gives them. When you take a closer look, the bill doesn’t just allow the government to take action against the newly defined acts of terror, it allows them to take action against those conspiring to commit them. This is an important distinction, as this moves from a simple punishment of action, to punishment of thought. People already criticize the U.S. and Israel for taking preemptive strikes and action against foreign terrorists who are suspected of planning attacks on their national defense, imagine taking that same logic and using it on your own citizens. Another interesting question is how people being prosecuted under these terror conspiracy laws are treated. Rule of thumb is that terrorists don’t get civil liberties given by a nation’s constitution, allowing the nation to ignore rules like no cruel or unusual punishment, and allowing acts of torture like waterboarding. While this might seem appropriate for the modern idea of a terrorist, just wait until you see what the Japanese government is trying to define as a terrorist act.\n \nGoing through the list of 277 illegal acts, most of them make sense, especially when you take into account Japan’s unique situation of being an ethnically homogenous, hard working, and honor bound society, whose citizens still pay a worldwide penalty for the cruel and vicious acts of their ancestors. As someone who supports a strong stance against terror, I welcome preemptive action and instituting order through law. That being said, some of these so called “terrorist actions” are ridiculous and clearly have a different motive. They include:\n\n* Mushroom picking in conservation forests\n* Avoiding paying the consumption tax\n* Competing in a motor boat race without a licence\n* Using forged stamps\n* Copying music\n* Conducting sit-ins to protest the construction of apartment buildings\nSource: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40283730 \n \nUnless you’re a full blown statist, reading this list of “terrorist activities” should make your head spin. In what world does picking mushrooms, or rather, conspiring to pick mushrooms, become an act of terror? When questioned about why these illegal, yet not terror-level activities were put on the list, the government claimed that they were hoping to gain the power to take preemptive strikes against crime organizations in Japan. This confession is understandable, yet incredibly important to unpack.\n \nOrganized crime is a massive issue in Japan, so much so that there are whole forms of media where the Yakuza are mentioned, most of the time in an almost reverent light. Organized crime is so commonplace in Japan that it’s almost comical how casually Japanese citizens will mention how a business or a block are controlled by or used as fronts by these crime groups. Its ironic that such an honor bound and civilized culture also has such a seedy underbelly that it has almost no power to stop. These amendments then, are obvious power grabs by the Japanese government to try and fight against these groups and gain back control of their streets. What most citizens realize though, in an almost libertarian way, is that once you give up your liberties to the government there is almost no way you’ll ever get them back. Americans understand this (just look at the NRA on the 2nd amendment) but most European and eastern nations don’t, as the concept of small government or libertarianism doesn’t much exist out of the U.S. This is why I’m surprised that the Japanese people are wise enough to protest against their government in this case, as this long-term thinking is rarely seen nowadays. I’m always reminded in these instances of the often misquoted, but still relevant Benjamin Franklin quote:\n \n>“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”\n \nAn interesting, if not unsurprising, note is that the justification the Japanese government to pass these amendments is that they want to enter the UN’s Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime, and these laws will help them reach that status. Yet again, a nation’s government uses the UN as an excuse to further gain control over its people. Opponents of the bill are questioning whether this bill is even necessary to gain entry to the convention, and they’ve already managed to reduce the number of new offenses from 676 to the aforementioned 277. Unfortunately, the bill was passed, and if it passes further inspection will be cemented as law.\n \nAs terrible as recent events have been on the world, I’m actually starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel. The fact that Poland has the bravery to stand up to the EU and refuse to take in Islamic migrants, the fact that every media attack on Trump has failed, the fact that people who were previously locked into their beliefs are now developing an open mind thanks to increasingly ridiculous events like what happened at Evergreen University, these all add up to something. Seeing Japanese citizens question their government grabbing for power with these amendments makes me feel better, even if it turns out to be futile. People all over are wisening up to the danger of large government. Let’s just hope it's not too little and too late.",
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