Efforts by liberal tech companies and prominent Democrats to clamp down on conservative sites is exactly the type of “deplatforming” that Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge warned about years ago, according to Alex Jones of InfoWars, the latest outlet targeted for silencing.
Jones, who saw his voice slashed or eliminated this week on Apple, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, and Spotify because of “hate” speech rules, said he is the “beta test” of a liberal move to quiet conservatives in a late bid to thwart Republicans from keeping control of Congress.
On Michael Savage’s radio show, Jones said that in silencing conservative voices, the Democrats are working from a blueprint drawn up in the Senate to take over the internet.
“They are coming for the 1st Amendment. They plan to steal the midterms,” he told Savage.
Some conservatives have voiced outrage over the elimination of the controversial and edgy Jones and his popular podcast from the top tech outlets. In talking to Savage, he said that his positions have been misrepresented in the bid to quiet him.
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And he said that it is a tactic that Drudge warned of.
“They are making their move, ahead of these elections to fully deplatform people, to put people literally in these unpersoned, depersoned ‘1984’ really electronic ghettos that Matt Drudge years ago warned about,” he told Savage.
“They are using me as an example of deplatforming,” he added on Savage Nation.
Since his audiences have been taken away, Jones said that creditors have started to call him, and he compared the move by Apple and the others to “Kristallnacht.”
He said, “They are killing us, they are dialing us back.”
