I've never listened to it, and in fact I have no idea who that guy is or what he talks about, except that he's supposedly a conspiracy theorist. For those of you who have, what made his show so objectionable (to Apple, anyway)?
He's against IIRC having trans children take puberty blockers, which might be an issue, but TBH an argument can be made for the well-being of the child.
No, I think this is an issue of twitter-mob pressure against Itunes after Spotify announced they would keep Infowars content. And there are, AFAIK very few people who care one way or the other. It's more a slim minority of people who hate Alex Jones' views and wish to have his content blocked much the same way trolls are trying to take out Rick and Morty.
He’s talked extensively about the Jewish mafia. He promoted violence against the made-up “Pizzagate” B.S. and only backed down because Texan libel law is particularly stern. I support Alex Jones’ right to speak, but I don’t think—particularly in the era of the Internet—Apple should support him.
There's a Jewish Mafia?
>Pizzagate
He talked about it, sure, but if you can find me where he promotes violence against Alefantis then I'll eat my hat.
According to Jones [1][2].
(To be clear, there was a strain of Jewish-American organized crime around the turn of the last century [3], but that isn't what Jones was referring to.)
[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/26/13418304/...
[2] https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alex-jones-five-...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish-American_organized_crim...
There are mobs of all races, ethnic groups.
Although I can't speak specifically to the points mentioned by Jones, all those sources you cite are suspect.
Also, even if there were a Jewish mafia, discussing Jewish organized crime is no more anti-Jewish than discussing Italian organized crime is anti-Italian.
https://www.adl.org/blog/louis-farrakhan-delivers-yet-anothe...
So this is raising the profile of Alex Jones.
As an aside, losing your child is probably one of the most horrific event that could happen in one's life. And moreover, imagine being harassed and accused of fabricating it and not even being able to go to the tomb. This is really hellish.
Article on the audience : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/us/politics/infowars-sand...
I don't know this South Park Mexican guy, but unless his _content_ on Apple Music is objectionable, there's no reason to remove it.
Based on a little bit of skipping around in SPM's oeuvre on Spotify, I didn't hear anything that seemed out of the ordinary for hip hop. I did not hear anything that suggested that his music would be taken as anything other than entertainment by listeners.
Services are choosing to stop carrying Jones because they believe that the product itself that they were helping distribute is harmful. With SPM there doesn't seem to be anything harmful about the product itself. It is just that a terrible person makes money from it.
That's a pretty big difference.
He's not crazy. He's just driving sales to his on-line store this way. These days, even conspiracy nutjobs aren't honestly crazy.
He once had to admit that he does it for entertainment when lawsuits happened.
But otherwise he is a right wing nutter. Apple chose not to support his podcast anymore.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of other podcasts that support POTUS that haven't been removed.