Roku, the streaming video company, said Tuesday that it would no longer include a channel for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars network on its platform — less than a day after the new channel first went live.
Roku’s Infowars channel came months after several media and tech companies — Twitter, Vimeo, Facebook, Apple, Spotify — removed Jones and his content from their platforms.
A judge recently ordered Jones to turn over Infowars financial and marketing documents to the families of Sandy Hook victims that sued Jones over his characterization of the 2012 elementary school shooting massacre as a hoax.
A spokesperson for Roku told NBC News that Jones had previously been on the platform, but that his content was “not used much” and required a subscription and authentication. That old channel and the new channel launched Monday were both removed from the Roku platform, the spokesperson told NBC News.
The report noted that Roku initially told Digiday Tuesday that “to our knowledge, InfoWars is not currently in violation of [Roku’s] content policies,” and that “we do not curate or censor based on viewpoint.”
Deplatforming. And you wonder why people hate the left…
Adam Smith
"InfoWars' Alex Jones Is a 'Performance Artist,' His Lawyer Says in Divorce Hearing"
"The Alex Jones who told his legions of “Infowars” listeners that bogus stories about the U.S. government being behind the 9/11 attacks and about Hillary Clinton operating a pedophile ring out of a Washington D.C. pizza joint is really “a performance artist.”
That’s according to Jones’ own lawyer — not the mainstream media that the right-wing radio jock derides as “fake news.”
“He’s playing a character” and is nothing like his online persona, attorney Randall Wilhite reportedly insisted in a Texas courtroom at a pre-trial hearing ahead of the right wing radio jock’s custody battle with ex-wife Kelly Jones."
That's called playing the system to survive the system. Jones still is a money hungry artist, but he is rattling cages and that is a good thing. So let his lawyer paint him as an innocent angel, who cares?
Liam Rogers
Fucking retard. It was Roku's costumers threatening to cancel.
Tyler Butler
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE !
Caleb Phillips
sage and anchor
Gavin Bailey
It was just a tiny amount of their customer base. They are obviously using that as an excuse.
