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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 6 Aug 2018
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      Whether you hate Alex Jones is beside the point. Do you love the fact a handful of tech monopolists have the power to simultaneously purge him from the internet?

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    2. K. Thor Jensen‏Verified account @kthorjensen 6 Aug 2018
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      He still has his own website dummy

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 6 Aug 2018
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      Since you're about the 500th person to make this tedious pointhttps://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1026560269059870728 …

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      Nitpickers have argued that being simultaneously terminated from the major social media platforms isn't technically a "purge" because Alex Jones still has his own website. Call it whatever you want: his audience was just obliterated because a few people in California decreed it
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        2. K. Thor Jensen‏Verified account @kthorjensen 6 Aug 2018
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          Maybe because it’s a correct one dummy

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        3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 6 Aug 2018
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          Wow, calling people dummies online sounds like a great use of time. Enjoy

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        1. Peter Ferguson‏ @Humanisticus 6 Aug 2018
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          It's not a tedious point. It's a correct one. Do you think of a internet company reaches a certain threshold then they should lose their right of association and be forced to host people and material if they don't want?

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        1. Darc Fider‏ @Janeymcjaneface 7 Aug 2018
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          He has a perfectly valid point. Your tweet said he had been "purged from the interent". In fact he has been removed from a few social media sites for violating their rules of conduct repeatedly. Not the same.

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        1. Michael Ruminer‏ @michaelruminer 7 Aug 2018
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          It is only tedious because it doesn't fit your narrative. You asked the question and wonder why you get hundreds of legitimate yet related thoughts.

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        1. denwarren‏ @denisew06604278 7 Aug 2018
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          Get used to it! Tech monopolies will do whatever they want. Net Neutrality .is gone-remember? So if FB gets offered enough money or if a person wants to pay they can get all the "free" speech they can afford. GOP wanted NetNeut-you got it, now pay for it.

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        1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 7 Aug 2018
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          hahaha. some of us call for deplatforming because it has tangible effects and that's the point of the tactic. at least i'm honest about it. ;)

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        1. theBelgian‏ @jericho71 6 Aug 2018
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          Tedious, because you can’t really respond to it. The difference between social media and “the internet” is who owns the server. It’s not very complicated.

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        1. theBelgian‏ @jericho71 6 Aug 2018
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          Alex Jones is the new Judith Miller.

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        1. AndrewG‏ @drwpuma 6 Aug 2018
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          It wasn't obliterated

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        1. Bruce Lawson, off the grid‏ @brucel 7 Aug 2018
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          How to set up a website: a guide for the alt-right https://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2018/how-to-set-up-a-website-a-guide-for-the-alt-right/ … I've written a guide on how to set up a website independently of Facebook and YouTube, as a service to those alt-right folks who don't understand the web

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        1. #Bernie2020‏ @Cowicide 7 Aug 2018
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          I remember when AOL was Internet for most people & it was huge awakening when they realized a browser escaped it. I also remember how many were conditioned to stay inside walled garden & resisted going outside of their comfort zone pen. We're going backwards to that shit again.pic.twitter.com/T1XoQgmVbE

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        1. goob‏ @goobisgoofy 7 Aug 2018
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          Your terrible hot take doesn't negate his original point.

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        1. a run-by wifing  🏴 🚩‏ @loudandobvious 7 Aug 2018
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          This is literally not an answer to the point though

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        1. Hieronymus Burps  🥦‏ @hieronymus_burp 7 Aug 2018
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          his audience can still find him incredibly easily

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        1. N̴̬̫̉̋̓͛̇̆̆͝єςг๏קђเ๔เคภ‏ @Necrophidian 7 Aug 2018
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          Calling it a tedious point doesn't change the fact that it's completely accurate. What was completely inaccurate was calling it a "purge". It's also completely inaccurate to say "his audience was just obliterated." No. It wasn't.

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        1. Bjorn Larsen‏ @bjorn 7 Aug 2018
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          And. This. Is. Good.

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        1. I was told of Gin‏ @Iwastoldofgin 7 Aug 2018
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          It's not nitpicking, it's a fact. He can still say what he wants. He has no inherent right to say so on anyone else's platform - especially when he's breaching their terms of use. The size of the platform is irrelevant to that core argument.

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