RE: Is Steem the Next Destination for Alex Jones and Infowars?
I don't think it's suppressing free speech. He was plenty of other outlets to publish his content and the businesses that banned them have the right to do so in the course of doing business and protecting their shareholder's interests. The ones he was banned from were the "premium" outlets though so of course he's upset about it. Oh well. Maybe he can learn from the experience, like Howard Stern did.
Do I think he will come to Steem? Well I've seen pariah people come to Steem thinking it's a haven and subsequently their content was buried in downvotes (Trevon James, for instance). So I don't think that will happen.
There will be a small group of people that will get behind the free speech regardless of content and try to rally, as you said, but they won't be able to offset the swarm of people that just can't get over that Alex Jones harrassed parents of dead children. Just my opinion!
PS - There is one Alex Jones interview I liked, and that was the Dave Mustaine video. It was probably the best interview of Mustaine actually.
That’s a very valid re-not suppression of speech and any company having the right to have and maintain their own terms.
Only thing weird here would be the avalanche effect which happened. That “stinks”.
The reality for him, and also the Guardian, is that at this point the revenue generated from AdWords and also YouTube video is something no other platform can offer.
I’m convinced his social media team knows about DPove and I’m just as convinced they did the math and it didn’t work out for them.
Most likely same reason why an otherwise always among the first adopters, the Guardian hasn’t even trialed Steem with its opinion writers yet. They don’t want to see $TU80 only for a post which reveives normally +1k comments on their site.