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Alex Jones is a media personality and through his website Infowars he has become a hotbed of conspiracy theories including that 9/11 was an inside job which isn't true or that the Sandy Hook murders the children were a hoax also not true and all sorts of other things these websites pulled the plug for info wars on their social networks because he had broken their policies there's a lot of concern over the last couple months that he whipped his followers into a fear where they would harass or even do worse to a lot of these families who were impacted by all this there was a story in The New York Times about how the parents of one of the kids from Sandy Hook couldn't go visit their child's graves because of how much harassment they get so there's been a lot of concern that this stuff needs to be handled people who follow Alex Jones and Infowars say that this is a free speech issue whether or not how they impact people is not the point the point is that these are the largest social networks in the world their populations are larger than any country on earth and thus Infowars and out zones should be allowed to say what they say the people who are against them say no harassment is not okay these platforms have rules against this kind of behavior and they need to be enforced there is a lot of bad stuff that happens on the internet every day and these social networks Facebook YouTube all these people continuously have to close accounts and remove content all the time what's interesting about Alex Jones and Infowars is that they are very public we know who alex jones is and he continues to do what he does despite warnings from the companies it's gonna be very interesting to see how Alex Jones and Infowars respond so far it doesn't appear as though that they have changed the way that they do their their work in the way that they publish but are really interesting to see that it also be interesting to see how the conservative movement changes and responds to all of this the last time we saw some serious movement against conservative voices you've seen people on Capitol Hill very angry hearings about it you've heard the president in states weigh in so this is likely to become a much larger issue