Regardless of your personal feelings about Alex Jones, there’s no denying that the man is the probably the most censored public figure of our time.
Jones has been banned from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and now as of a few days ago, Roku.
In case you aren’t familiar with Roku, it’s a California-based tech company that provides video-streaming services to users, giving them access to many thousands of channels of third-party content. Roku’s technology is built into many different brands of Blu-ray players and smart TVs. Nearly 24 million people use the service.
Roku added Alex Jones’ Infowars to their platform sometime this month – six months after he was banned from the other Silicon Valley platforms last year.
The SJW Twitter Stasi was quick to call the company out for allowing Jones onto their platform.
One Tweet from @DanielMadison78, a Roku user, read, “Hey @Roku, what’s with you adding Infowars to your platform?”
The move also drew the attention of the Twitter account Sleeping Giants, a tattletale account that urges people to call out and screenshot brand ads on websites and platforms with content deemed outside of the political left’s scope of acceptability.
Lawyers involved in a lawsuit between Sandy Hook parents and Jones also called out the streaming platform publicly, saying that it was “indifferent to the suffering” families of Sandy Hook had experienced. Lawyers added that Roku was interfering with “efforts to prevent people like Jones from profiting off innocent victims whose lives have been turned upside down by unspeakable loss.”
Initially, Roku defended its decision to host Infowars on its platform because it doesn’t censor content unless it’s illegal. However, after facing widespread criticism and abuse, the company later bowed to the demands of these loudmouthed leftists.
Roku, in a tweet, said, “After the InfoWars channel became available, we heard from concerned parties and had determined that the channel should be removed from our platform.”
Free speech advocates have rightfully criticized Roku for siding with the leftist SJWs. Unfortunately, their cries will likely fall on deaf ears, just as they have in the past.
The extreme politicizing of the business sector, especially in social media companies who traffic in information, is particularly alarming. It’s eerily reminiscent to days of communism when businesses were forced to propagate communist ideology.
