We’re old enough to remember enjoying Oliver Darcy’s work at TheBlaze, so it’s sort of sad for us to see how deeply invested he and CNN are in getting Alex Jones and Infowars banned from Twitter, which is about the last social media platform that hasn’t banned Jones outright. No, we’re not Alex Jones fans, but scrubbing him and only him from the internet seems to have become a mission at CNN.
The president tweeted about censorship Saturday, and Darcy screen capped all the tweets. We can’t say we’re fans of his take, which seems to be, since Donald Trump didn’t tweet in support of censoring Alex Jones, he must be defending Alex Jones.
Trump comes to the defense of InfoWars? pic.twitter.com/9xfvpEvfVz
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 18, 2018
So did Bill Maher? How come you are not calling out his defense of InfoWars? https://t.co/18VAf1ugCL
— Braden-Plorable (@BraderGatorNYC) August 18, 2018
And so did Bill Maher. Maybe you should too. #PressPrick #Presstitute https://t.co/uDGwJZ5mYl
— Chris_Herrala (@chris_herrala) August 18, 2018
Bill Maher did indeed defend Alex Jones’ right to speak, much to the chagrin of guest Jennifer Granholm. Maybe talk to him about it?
Or accounts like @prageru, but hey, whatever fits the narrative ?♂️ https://t.co/jctbLTcXzE
— waterbearer (@itswaterbearer) August 18, 2018
Somebody’s hot to get Prager U off of Facebook … maybe CNN should look into it.
https://twitter.com/IcyTekla/status/1030842380189097985
I must have missed that Oliver where exactly in President Trump’s tweets did he mention Infowars?
— Don #WWG1WGA (@digjohn67) August 18, 2018
Earlier in the week, there was significant chatter on Twitter about some right-leaning users reporting a noteworthy reduction in follower counts. He could be referring to that. Then again, I don’t know for sure because it wasn’t specifically mentioned. Nor was InfoWars.
— BostonWriter (@bostonwriter) August 18, 2018
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We didn’t hear anything about conservatives losing followers on CNN, so …
Maybe just coming to the defense of free and open platforms…
— Ben Kew (@ben_kew) August 18, 2018
CNN PR hack is now mad that DJT is *against* censorship. What will they think of next?! @redsteeze
— SPOONS (@JeffyIsFat) August 18, 2018
It's called free speech you fool. https://t.co/eT8k7XccxA
— Media Critic (@mediacritizer) August 18, 2018
It seems like he's coming to the defense of free speech, but if you prefer to shift the paradigm so that the principle of free speech is based upon the identity of the speaker, I think you're going to find that you don't like how that works out.#NewRules https://t.co/mtfUj23msD
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 19, 2018
Love how these dishonest ppl frame the concern over social media censorship, as “coming to the defense of InfoWars” ? https://t.co/Wrci4NQ7ea
— Ann (@ann_gop) August 18, 2018
.@CNN likes to pretend that their support of censorship is just to protect everyone from those mean ole right-wingers. Meanwhile, they and other legacy media are leveraging it to silence their alternative media competition across the political spectrum. #CENSORSHIP
— Auklet (@aukletqd) August 19, 2018
Oliver, that is your real name, can you then explain how one could stand up for the free speech without necessarily agreeing with that speech, or do you think that that is impossible? https://t.co/mtfUj23msD
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) August 19, 2018
Oliver, why do you hate the First Amendment?
— Media Critic (@mediacritizer) August 18, 2018
Just so we’re straight … once Alex Jones and Infowars are banned from Twitter, it’s all good?
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OUCH! Bill Maher dropped a BIG hammer on Jennifer Granholm's social media ban fist-pumping https://t.co/6veLCAePap
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 18, 2018
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