Google targets alternative press, censors PrisonPlanet and InfoWars: Alex Jones

A prominent U.S. political commentator has claimed that Google and YouTube are censoring various outlets from which the radio host broadcasts information.

In a video posted on YouTube on November 29, Jones claimed that articles hosted at two websites he maintains—Infowars.com and PrisonPlanet.com—have been blacklisted from Google News search results.

“We noticed two weeks ago—and we’ve done research and confirmed it—that PrisonPlanet.com, that for eight years has been accepted by Google News, has been completely banned,” Jones said. “No headline of PrisonPlanet.Com or InfoWars.com is allowed into Google News.”

Now, Jones continued, YouTube has stated that it has frozen the YouTube account “TheAlexJonesChannel”.

Jones explained that he received notice from YouTube that the channel has been flagged for a “community guidelines violation”.

The content that the TheAlexJonesChannel allegedly uploaded in violation of YouTube’s “Community Guidelines” shows a U.S. Apache helicopter shooting journalists in Iraq.

“Today, we received a notice for the Alex Jones channel”¦that it is going to be shut down for the foreseeable future,” Jones said.

The video, known as “Collateral Murder”, was originally made public by the whistleblowers website Wikileaks in April. Once online, it was immediately duplicated, edited, and rebroadcast by major media outlets around the world.

As Jones has pointed out, portions of the 18-minute-long video appear in video clips uploaded by many other YouTube users who presumably have not received violations notices nor penalties.

The alternative media that is literally challenging and displacing the tired, corporate, globalist media, is under attack," Jones said in the November 19 video. "Google–the parent company of YouTube–has now launched a campaign of censorship against us."



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Comments

35 Comments

Amar

Nov 30, 2010 at 4:06pm

Thanks for posting!

Goldenboy

Nov 30, 2010 at 5:51pm

Good work Travis! the US Gov and most western Governments are trying their best to keep us sheeple misinformed in may ways and this is just another layer of tyranny being lay-ed out. If they get their way the internet will be pure and full of censored globalist bought media just like the TV presently, keep up the good work Georgia Straight.

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Elmocall911

Nov 30, 2010 at 6:35pm

1.STRAIGHT YOU ROCK!!!
2.NO INTERNET CENSORSHIP WILL BE TOLERATED!!!

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Mack

Nov 30, 2010 at 7:04pm

On the other hand, isn't Jones a profit-driven demagogue with a reactionary agenda? His “research” is beyond sloppy. He’s done terrible damage to the field he claims to represent. I mean, "boo" to censorship, but turning the volume down on Alex Jones is hardly worth weeping over, is it?

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Evan Hill

Nov 30, 2010 at 7:47pm

The Youtube problem doesn't seem like that big a deal. The email says they will return your ability to post new content in 2 weeks.

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John C

Nov 30, 2010 at 9:16pm

Yeah, but what you don't point out in your article is that Jones is a 9-11 truther, birther and all around paranoid conspiracy nutjob (when are those Ameros and FEMA death camps ever going to show up?) with no journalistic credentials beyond his own self-promotion, and who's comical response to almost everything is to abolish gun control and privatize health care.

C'mon Georgia Straight, you can do better than this.

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Mike Cantelon

Nov 30, 2010 at 9:48pm

I find it unfortunate that some support the censorship simply because they disagree with Alex Jones.

Many people trust Google with their data. If Google is willing to censor perfectly legal video because it embarrasses the state, are they also willing to compromise their users' data if it be of interest to the state?

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Smack

Nov 30, 2010 at 9:53pm

I suppose you 0bots all work without a paycheck?

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Its not a duck

Nov 30, 2010 at 11:19pm

Anyone want to start placing bets on how long until the IMF "bails out" BC?

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MichaelG

Dec 1, 2010 at 12:58am

YouTube/Google are completely out of order for doing this and for me it really lowers my opinion on them. I'm in no way offended by the video and welcome Alex's comments about the pilots laughing at attacking the mini van as he is showing just how cruel, nasty and disgusting they really are but ABC and others are allowed to show it with no hesitation. What a joke and also some channels have girls have naked dancing in their living rooms but I guess it's ok to show that isn't it?

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