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When did the mainstream right start openly embracing racist as thier people outside of the South? I could never see any former Republican President or leadership in the modern era support someone like Alex Jones.

Alex Jones podcast was not "banned" from Apple's platform. Apple never hosted either the media or the RSS metadata. Anyone who wants to listen to the podcast can go on Google do a search find the feed subscription and add to the podcast app.

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Changed "was banned" to "wasn't banned".

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That's not my point. I don't like or listen to the guy, but your reaction shows precisely why they chose him. Who is next? If they can take down someone as vocal as Alex Jones, they can take down anyone.

Let this be a lesson to us all. If you blatantly violate terms of service, there's no amount of harassing families of school shooting victims that will get your platform back.

Banning people like Alex Jones won't unharass those parents either. People around the country still think that those parents lied about the death of their children in order to score financial or political gain.

And what exactly is Alex Jones' brand of conservatism? Does it involve a narrative of white extinction and false black victimhood? Climate change as a conspiracy? Obama is a Muslim who isn't even a US citizen? What makes Alex Jones conservative?

You should ask someone who bemoans his removal as censorship against conservatives.

> People around the country still think that those parents lied about the death of their children in order to score financial or political gain.

Who made money originally selling them this lie and then perpetuating it?

No it won't "unharass people" just like it won't stop people from seeing porn just because Apple doesn't sell "Debbie Does Dallas". Every private company has a brand that it wants to project.

Conservatives are always embracing the free market. If there were a market for his ideas, he should have no trouble finding funding, advertising, etc.

If his ideas really are that popular, he should be able to create the conservative versions of Twitter, Facebook, etc. All of the FAANG companies started out competing against entrenched incumbents by offering a service they didn't. Why can't he do the same?

> If there were a market for his ideas, he should have no trouble finding funding, advertising, etc.

Alex Jones will be fine. It’s the up and comers who are clearly being locked out of the market.

You mean like a certain reality star that had no funding, was outspent by his rivals in the primary, who the conservative establishment fought against the entire time and still ended up becoming President?

If your ideas are popular enough and you know how to market yourself, you don't have to be a sharecropper on FAANG's farm.

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