Twitter Users Took Twitter Management To The Woodshed For Not Banning Alex Jones

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The bell finally tolled for Alex Jones, with most platforms — including Facebook, Apple, Spotify, and YouTube — finally ousting him so he can go shirtlessly caterwaul his Sandy Hook denial conspiracies someplace else. But Twitter opted not to ban Jones or InfoWars, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey (pictured above) defending their decision on the same day it was revealed Jones’ lawyer is seeking to make the home addresses of Sandy Hook parents public. So that is some amazing timing, or perhaps, as Seth Rogen has said, “the dude simply does not seem to give a f*ck.”

To put this in further perspective, Neil Heslin, the father of a 6 year old killed at Sandy Hook, has said, “I lost my son. I buried my son. I held my son with a bullet hole through his head.” If you’re the CEO of a company — watching Jones use a national platform to label the shooting a hoax and calling Neil Heslin and the other grieving parents “crisis actors” — and you don’t consider that a violation of the rules (while other people are banned for incredibly minor things like obvious parody accounts or saying they would throw a chess board at Nancy Pelosi if she breaks into their house), you may have lost the plot. Many people on Twitter pointed out the arbitrary reasons they’ve been disciplined by Twitter while Dorsey makes excuses for Jones and his ilk:

https://twitter.com/AmeliaMangan/status/1027085489004666880

https://twitter.com/sarahgailbrand/status/1027115426482933761

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1027038415961903106

Others joked about invoking “slippery slope” arguments, citing Niemöller poetry, saying “both sides” are the same, or believing that doing nothing isn’t in itself a political stance.

https://twitter.com/TheSpiderDork/status/1026955533830377472
https://twitter.com/lukeoneil47/status/1026462111432679424
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1026839703729958912
https://twitter.com/muhmentions/status/1026921569854074882
https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1027028802868670464

https://twitter.com/casersatz/status/1026954551444815872

Things heated up when the official Twitter Safety account dropped a couple of questionably-worded updates:

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1026979630249533440
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1027035239980433408

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1026979628475248640

People were definitely angry.

One part of Dorsey’s stance that people found especially egregious was him saying it was up to journalists to refute the endless flow of “unsubstantiated rumors” from accounts Twitter could easily ban.

https://twitter.com/max_read/status/1027167362880073730

https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/1026999506775068672
https://twitter.com/socarolinesays/status/1027019457112301568
https://twitter.com/brfreed/status/1026997600229253120
https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1027008008344096768

This led to people spreading some unsubstantiated rumors of their own:

https://twitter.com/vs_cointelpro/status/1027001211797626881