but this isn't about alex jones. this is about freedom. >> alex jones and rosie o'donnell and all of these other people believe that building seven had imploded. and that it was, the united states government had killed americans on 9/11. why anyone would listen to them, at all and alex jones -- my god! >> is big tech cracking down allies and conspiracy theories? i am howard kurtz and this is #mediabuzz. from the day he joined president trump's legal team the former mayor of new york has been a constant t.v. presence in the battle against robert mueller. driving the new cycle and taking media flack in the process. done enough of new york is rudy giuliani. welcome. >> how are you? >> doing well! we will drill down on the issues in a minute. since you been on the case, how would you describe the overall media coverage of the mueller investigation? >> hysterical. at times, taking things that are totally unimportant or relatively unimportant and driving it into all kinds of exaggerations. i think it is a bit of a hard cas

alex jones is not a joke. he is being sued by some of the people he has targeted including the families of the victims, the massacre at sandy hook elementary school which he claims was staged. as a result, those families have faced harassment and abuse from jones' fans. that didn't stop trump from appearing on jones' show where he praised the truthers' amazing reputation. and jones has depended on media platt forms like youtube, and twitter. his youtube channel alone has more than 2.4 million subscribers and earned more than 17 million views. that was before this week. after months of equivocating on apple, youtube and spotify booted film the platforms, as well as expressions of grerns some citizen risk who have are no fans of jones. notably he was not banned by twitter. the ceo saying jones had not violated twitter's rules. he elaborated on twitter policy on sean hannity's radio show. >> any sort of violent speech, encouragement toward violence, harassment is directly against our materials of service and we t

and alex jones yeah who's just basically a satirist is said in court he's a performance artist there for the us to have a call there is the same threat and act as that cold air love hate strong s. and you know judges are part of the network that does the macabre so that's what they will it's competition assert you know this is this is. competitive behavior yet this was like a coordinated attack within one hour it all happened within one hour. all the social media that the big four because we always have big for everything big for accountants big four banks big for tech monopolies oligarch police and they all to come down of course this was quite similar to when wiki leaks was also coordinated to cut off from the financial grid and that was the beginning of this wave of censorship where of course it's it's not the government it's these private corporations and somehow they can cut you off from the grid that is really under the domain of the government normally but that the monopoly for these many rails of our our economies and our societies have been handed to private corporations in

but on monday this week social media tech giants facebook apple and u two pulled the plug on the alex jones show the new york times reports that facebook removed four pages belonging to mr jones including one with nearly one point seven million followers you to terminator mr jones channel which had more than two point four million subscribers and billions of views on its videos repeatedly violating its policies including its prohibition on hate speech jones responded with his usual flair for the dramatic declaring on twitter understand this the censorship of info wars just vindicates everything we've been saying now who will stand against tyranny and who will stand for free speech we're all alex jones now. but it's the lawsuit that according to wired could actually have a bigger influence on the future of free speech wire reports that whether jones wins or loses his suit according to first amendment lawyers will be built we will be a building block for the way we think of free speech in the age of the internet you see not only is this case about alex jones and free speech but it's also a ca

is going after alex jones right now is very very curious first of all let me say if they were if the network of this liberty broadcasting was operating a pirate radio station against the law it's wrong and and it's should be it should be punished for that absolutely but what i find curious is the timing the timing a couple of weeks after there was obviously a coordinated effort by facebook and others to ban alex jones apple all on the same day and then they claimed it was coincidence and then you have liberty which the f.c.c. is known about for several years of goes back to the obama administration who first approached them about running a pirate radio station that broadcasts among others alex jones and they didn't do anything about it until now so i think that there is a coordinated effort to censor obviously alex jones. and eighty seven year old woman has been tasered by police in the us state of georgia well cutting flowers she does she does shine we have never really told her about stun guns or tasers and since she doesn't know what that means when she realized what happened she

they're not banning alex jones. he wrote, "we didn't suspend alex jones or info wars yesterday. we know that's hard for many, but the reason is simple: he hasn't violated our rules. we'll enforce if he does. s you'ing that's within twitter's rights. >> it is absolutely within twitter's rights. it's also within user rights ton put pressurewitter for that. but jack dorsey this morning in a tweet said that what he expects to happen is for journalists and others to counteract alex jones' fallshoods with true, factualt information andrown out his hateful and distortedeesp with the true, factual information they find.o >> brangham:hen alex jones and his supporters argue that this is just outright censorship, u say they might feel they're being censored, but there is no standings that hegu has to alegally that he's being censored. >> censorship is a legal termen for he governmentre ricts your speech. he's not balancing censored. there are a lot of peopleg callr the platforms to take him down, but that doesn't count as legal censorship.ra >>ham: what do you make of the slippery slope ar

he wasn't doing anything differently on twitter alex jones is the same alex jones.hen people tell you who they are, believe them. >> but today it's alex jones, who knows who it's going to be tomorrow and jack is clearly trying to avoid that slippery slope. we don't know. >> we've seen everything from charges of bullying against the president, people say why is the president allowed to not just threaten violence against entire countries but be mean-spirited online or other people where do you draw the line >> do you think twitter is isolated do you expect jack has to retrench >> i don't think they have any choice >> really? >> i think to say that alex jones -- they painted themselves in a corner. they said if alex jones did what he did in other places he's out. he now has to be out no other way to reconcile this >> otherwise what do your policies mean? >> exactly >> i think that to me is one of the keys we've been debating about the rules and what the rules of each of these companies should be but even more than that if you're going to have rules on your book as a pr

alex jones is a liar. alex jones is a conspiracy spreader.meone saying that i believe that the tax policy that president obama put in place wasn't a good policy. it's not somebody saying, i want smaller government. >> right, but when you have these platforms now going off and being hypersensitive, under political pressure, social pressure, journalistic pressure to go after the bad guys, they are going to make some mistakes. and scott horton, a good journalist and anti-war guy, he was banned for twitter from a day, i think it was, recently, as part of this kind of net. i think that's the broader point that people are making. and i think the thing that we should all think about is, are we going on twitter and spending our time trying to de-platform somebody from one of these things? trying to get them un-hired from "the new york times" or msnbc or anywhere else like that? that's not a healthy culture. >> but msnbc can fire me any day. it's a private company. they're under no obligation to keep me employed. >> i totally agree with that. and it's

i understand why people don't like alex jones. i'm not definiting alex jones' views obviously.they can silence a radio host or silence james daymore at google. why don't we fight back against this? >> we can't fight back because we have not -- we don't have the moral courage to fight the opposition. we are apologists for our values and we are apologists for our principles. >> tucker: yes. >> we have receive ceded the mol high ground and in some sense given them the moral authority out of some sense of cowardice. great deal of moral cowardice that conservatives have that people who are even mildly conservative have and we have ceded high ground to people who have co-opted values and principles in the name of some sort of morality that is nothing short of nihilism, cultural relativism and attack on reasonable and an attack on rational armen station. but it's a lack of courage and it's a lack. >> tucker: i think you are exactly right. but, if all people who dissented from prevailing view of, say, our tech billionaires who have so much control over our speech, pause and say you kno

privilege. >> facebook and youtube banned controversial radio personality and conspiracy theorist alex joneseek saying the info wars host violated policy against hate speech. jones' detractor say the move was long-time coming but others argue that it's just the latest and not the last example of social media companies silencing voices they don't agree with and they are pointing to tweet by democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut who wrote this week, info wars tip of hatred that uses facebook and youtube to tear our nation apart. these companies must do more than take down one website, the survival of our democracy depends on it. we are back with dan henninger u kim strassel and wall street journal deputy editorial ciel -- kyle peterson. kyle, welcome, let's talk about the legality, these companies, can they decide what runs on their platforms legally? >> yes, absolutely. it's private property, the content is living on their servers and what facebook wants to do is specifically facebook sees itself at community, wants to be placed with teenagers and feel comfortable spending time and s

of their platform's policies. >>> there is mounting legal battles looming for the info wars host alex jonesthe father of a 6-year-old book, a sandy hook shooting victim who died saying jones destroyed evidence relating to their defamation lawsuit against them and one of three lawsuits brought by victims' families against jones. jones had the falsely theory that sandy hook shooting was a hoax carried out by actors. oliver darcy joins us now. we just heard there the president is claiming there is some sort of censorship going on and we heard from twitter. is there censorship happening? >> you know, there is a lot of news going on around alex jones. regarding twitter and whether this is happening with conservatives, i don't think you're going to see that. i think that that has been a thing that conservatives have claimed for a long time but there has been really little evidence to indicate that there are being censored on social media platforms. the social media platform remove content in violation of their policies and a lot of times that does affect conservatives but that is far different fr

he tweeted on tuesday night, we didn't suspend alex jones or infowars yesterday.s hard for many but the reason is simple. he hasn't violated our rules. we'll enforce it if he does. we did a quick review and took me about two days. look on his twitter account and kind of look at it and compare it to the terms of service and we found multiple violations in the terms of service from alex jones and infowars, content that degraded muslims, degraded members of the gay and transgender community, engaging harassments of individuals, so on, so forth. a lot of violations. and so yesterday, finally twitter got back to us and they now admit contrary to what jack dorsey, the ceo said on tuesday, alex jones has violated their terms of service, but they're not going to take any action. at least for the time being. >> did they explain why? i mean, they're just letting this go? >> i think that's the question many people are confused about, right? they promised action earlier in the week if there were violations and now admit there are violations, but they're not taking any meaning

alex jones does it a little bit differently.es and rumors and more than innuendo that cause his followers to take action. and that action is where i think you can get the similarity to crying fire in a crowded movie theater because he has so many followers who don't really care or aren't interested to listen to what journalists such as yourself and others would have to say to try to correct the misstatements that alex jones made. his followers don't care, they don't listen. it's partly because of that very platform, twitter. it's instantaneous. the false news spreads faster than true news ever does. and then those people take the action against the victims of alex jones. >> and the way the timelines work, it's very hard to correct a tweet or clarify a tweet and have it have the same reach as the original tweet. say you tweet something with an error in it or something that's not right and you try to delete it. that content even if it's out for a few minutes can be retweeted thousands of times if not hundreds of thousands of times

but on monday this week social media tech giants facebook apple and u two pulled the plug on the alex jones show the new york times reports that facebook removed four pages belonging to mr jones including one with nearly one point seven million followers you to terminator mr jones channel which had more than two point four million subscribers and billions of views on its videos repeatedly violating its policies including its prohibition on hate speech jones responded with its usual flair for the dramatic declaring on twitter understand this the censorship of info wars just been decades everything we've been saying now who will stand against tyranny and who will stand for free speech we're all alex jones now. but it's the lawsuit that according to wired could actually have a bigger influence on the future of free speech wire reports that whether jones wins or loses his suit according to first amendment lawyers will be built we will be a building block for the way we think of free speech in the age of the internet you see not only is this case about alex jones and free speech but it's also a

he spoke about alex jones specifically. there are a lot of leftist propaganda that continues to exist on the platform. i do not align with alex jones, but either way, it seems like it has become a situation in the media where it's only free speech if you follow our beliefs . we are seeing that with children with the way their institutionalized in college. democratic lot of aligned children allowed to have rallies in any time any conservatives come on, they are getting passes revoked. it's unfortunate. i think a lot of americans are waking up and seeing what is going on. host: let's leave it there because you put a lot out there. guest: well said, thank you for those comments. in briefly to point out one about the shutting down of some peoples of speech versus others, i would like to point out that those who favor ortting down alex jones proceed races -- racist and lookynists, you have to forward a few years. what happened is that same shutdown gets turned around on your own people. on your own political views and people who

like totalitarianism this social credit score and yet they pushed for the same thing to happen to alex jones basically he's been pulled from the grid in the same way that the chinese government is imposing on their citizens through the social credit score so it's very similar except for they're saying well because it's a private company because as google and facebook and twitter that these are private companies it's not really the government doing well at least from companies or operating out of the public airwaves. the apples trillion dollar market capitalization should be in part reimbursed to every american in there for a one k. plans or there are a plans as a stock dividend the fact that they can privately remove from the public domain the wealth of the nation and in return give censorship and an extraordinarily bankrupt and few tile nightmarish quagmire of piss and right junk it is not american obviously well i mean of course there's censorship resistance on the block chain and there are alternatives developing and i reckon that this is going to be a good time for the censorship resista

shelves instructed on her release from prison she can't listen to alex jones anymore.said, they resisted suing him for many years. and then back in april of 2017, he re-issued these claims and they decided enough is enough, heels not going to stop doing this. so they finally filed suit and in texas the defamation law requires you to file within a year. so by remaking or stating these claims, he revived their ability. that's at issue here has he said enough within the year of the statute of limitations to qualify as defamation? ? here's the take away, at least according to me, are you on the scene the take away is that people follow this guy and i mean some people in high places follow this guy. when bush comes to shove and he is challenged in a courtroom, his lawyers say you didn't really believe that, right? it's like the equivalent of pro wrestling. it's all bs. something jones has to fight against to keep that understand. >> yeah, in fact, in this blue screen argument, his lawyer says, you know, you can't prove that what he said was defamatory. even if it was wrong,

kind of seems like very similar to me in my eyes to alex jones but her conspiracies are that not the government but the people of the united states the voters are somehow involved in a conspiracy against the government and against the elite the crazy conspiracy theorists that they're all worthless there that all money the boss forgot about the back of the bus just run them over with the we because we want rush limbaugh wonder bread and fake news so you die that's america hey i take a break come back right after this go away. the it. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers just as they would a simple i want to become lost and enter and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called centrist sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities best person asked dan. mostly to point out. that at best i get a minute or less and that. they can watch as they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all the political riv

with russia game alex jones now being cited as examples of the dangerous abuses of free unrestrained speech on social media platforms politicians like mark warner the democrat out of virginia are putting political pressure on social media and tech giants to root out and clean up speech that capitol hill deems it appropriate dangerous this pressure has caused companies like facebook to seek help from rather curious political groups like the atlantic council on whose board matt taibbi in a recent rolling stone article observed you'll find confidence inspiring names like henry kissinger former cia chief michael hayden former acting cia had mike morrell and former bush era homeland security chief michael chertoff are on tire of interim recently sat down with saeed to discuss the slippery slope of facebook friends censorship. is this kind of push for the corporate policing of free speech. and political content a kind of his manifesto itself you know recently with kind of facebook executives teaming up with a group of the atlantic council to decide you know what is fake news and bad politi

alex jones but her conspiracies are that not the government but the people of the united states the voters are somehow involved in a conspiracy against the government and against the elite the crazy conspiracy theorists that they're all worthless there i'll throw money at the bus forget about the back of the bus just run them over with the we cuz we want rush limbaugh wonder bread and fake news so you die that's america hating i take a break come back right after this go away. join me every focused on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing their fingers just as the little simple they want to become must not want the last but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sites the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities any person asked bank of mom. policy to point out i am at best i'm not getting a lot of class and they want that. they can watch as the options to stay in th

hours later, youtube decided it wasn't going to miss out on all the fun and youtube suspended the alex jones channel with its 2.4 million subscribers. it's easy to dismiss concerns about big tech's actions to shut down jones because he is the media poster child for conspiracy theory. but this isn't about alex jones. this is about freedom. and our access to information from the sources we as individuals trust and like. if big tech can control the information flow, then they can also, perhaps, even influence the outcome of the mid-terms. and even future presidential elections. >> essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. you wonder if he'll have any influence going forward because the private companies who have an incredible amount of control over the internet. >> laura: that's the point. controlling who has a voice and who doesn't on these monster platforms is tantamount to limiting speech and it's also viewpoint discrimination. back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would cause top conservative pages to see a dramatic drop in traffic. and this included p

but this isn't about alex jones.his is about freedom and our access from information from the sources we as individuals trust and like. if big tech can control the information flow, then they can also perhaps even influence the outcome of the midterm and even future presidential elections. >> essentially, alex jones has been deleted from these websites. >> and that's the point, controlling who has a voice and who doesn't is tantamount to limiting speech. and as you'll see in a moment, it's also viewpoint discrimination. back in february, facebook launched a new algorithm that would see a dramatic drop in traffic. this included personal pages, but the way. president trump's facebook page saw a 45% drop. diamond and silk said their content was similarly blocked on facebook. >> facebook, along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves by deliberately weaponizing our page with algorithms that repress our free speech. >> next it was youtube that limited th

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well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking had alex jones was told get out of here by all major platforms we remove hate speech to keep people safe. after all they all have to stick to their own rules and keep people safe from hate speech but then even those anti-left who come to hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big territory. i'm no fan of jones some other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k. but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is there a call that if it is even a crucial step forward in

you represented a college student who was into the university because they followed alex jones on twitter is that true and if so can you tell us more about but sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on was it during the interview process the application was question about the fact that he was following mr jones on twitter and the fact that he was looking his stuff up and that was something that was a challenge during the during the actual interview process and subsequently the parents of the student reached out to me then i reached out to the the mission's director of the university and made sure that the situation was resolved in the students' satisfaction so the problem here was that the fact that the interviewer was actually questioning why this young person was following mr jones in the other types of internet activities that he was partaking in alex jones is the man behind the alternative news channel info wars he was suspended this week by several social media platforms they say it's because he's spreading hate speech and glorify violence broadly share agains

i remember speaking to you two years ago when alex jones was in the midst of a child custody battle.right. >> and his own lawyer at that time said this is all schtick. don't take it so seriously. that would be like holding jack nicholson accountable for his depiction of the joker in the batman movie. same thing is going on here, right? >> pretty much. in fact, in that case which was back in april of 2017 they were largely able to exclude any use of alex jones' on-air personality in that case so they didn't even have to make that argument to any great degree, but yes, it's the same thing. people tune in to watch the bombast and they have a certain expectation and they know this is alex jones and they know what he's doing and they don't take it literally, though apparently in a few cases they do take it quite literally and act on it. >> we know that some people take it literally because according to the plaintiffs in this austin-based defamation action they've been stopped and they've had to move a number of times. explain. >> well, so these are the parents of one of the children who w

whether or not you agree with alex jones i would be just the same amount of adamant that i think it's bad policy to ban people no matter what really no matter what i mean in the united states we have a concept of free speech that we love very much it means a lot to us now these are private companies they can do what they want to do i'm not saying they shouldn't be able to do this and i'm certainly not saying that government should regulate whether or not private companies can make decisions like this but i am saying i think it's a bad decision and i think that in the long run it will not pay off for these companies it is it extremely slippery slope i do believe ultimately that probably some conservative it t. will come up with competitive platforms for the ones that are doing the banning and the censoring and ultimately they will have stiff competition that may even relegate them to relative obscurity because of things like this especially if they remain so one sided. gang warfare took over the streets of chicago this weekend with numerous bystanders caught up in the crossfire twelve

and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ >>> alex jones a conspiracy theorist and hatemonger on his info wars social media giants like facebook and youtube restricted jones' feeds, deleted them off their platforms. twitter was the exception. at first twitter said it wouldn't remove alex jones because he hadn't violated the site's rules and policies. then cnn's oliver darcy found captions of how jones had violated the written-down rules and policies. right now jones is in a one-week time out for bad behavior. is that going to work? >> it is your job to make sure people are not misinformed on twitter? >> i think we need to be really thoughtful about what that means, like what is misinformation and how do we help people determine credibility. >> classic example from the 2016 election, the pope endorses donald trump. popular article that spread on twitter and facebook. wouldn't it be easier to make sure the lie doesn't spread? >> i don't think it is pretty easy. you have to extend it and generalize it to everything that could happen along that vector. i think what we could do is provide more cont

alex jones, no one's taking his platform. this is about having a free platform.to -- we have a right to say, you can't be on my private platform. that's super important. >> especially when you think about what happened, conspiracy theories about what happened at sandy hook, you know, and what happened -- >> absolutely. >> the school in florida. >> so, by the way, twitter makes these distinctions, other internet platforms have decided not to carry him. and guess what, his app is trending. one of the highest trending apps. >> to the point that he's not -- >> have at it. >> first amendment rights have not been violated. >> not in the least. >> right. >> go to his app. >> i just -- i just don't want me or you or you or you to be a year from now determined by some of these companies to be out of bounds and are taking you down, and not given a platform. because they may not agree with our political views or -- >> i don't think this is about politics. this is about outlandish, crazy -- >> he's nuts. he's awful. >> maybe the lesson is we should be more responsible and al

a week after several tech giants removed talk show host and conspiracy theorist alex jones from their er platforms, twis suspending his ability to tweet for a week. the company has been criticized for not a harder stance against jones who previously called the sandy hook school massacre a hoax. today jack dorsey told me why his company is alow taking action. well jones on twitter posted this week what essentially is a video calling for people to get their battle rifles ready against the media saying it's time to e act, it's got to done now. >> people need to have their battle rifles everything ready at their bedsides and you got to be re y. >> sent a chill up my spine, how about yours? >> it did. there is a number of actions that we believe help a call to incitement of violence e and those are things that we need to make sure that we are taking action on. >> you've taken action against him in this instance. can you tell us what it is? pu >> i believe w him in a time-out, removing his ality to tweet for a time period. >> that period just seven days and presumably after that, jones will

conspiracy theorist alex jones is calling on people from all corners of the internet to fight the big tech companies who banned him today. >> apple, facebook, spotify and youtube all completely banned info wars within 12 hours of each other clearly suggesting big tech collusion. >> reporter: alex jones conspiracy theories include 9/11 being an inside job, the idea that the government controls the weather and that the massacre at sandy hook elementary school was a hoax. last month reporters criticized facebook ceo mark zuckerberg for not banning info wars from the platform for spreading fake news. the company maintains the decision to remove jones' page today is not about misinformation. in a statement facebook said, "we have taken it down for glorifying violence and using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, muslim and immigrants which violates our hate speech policies." youtube wrote, "all users agree to comply with our terms of service and community guidelines when they sign up to use youtube. when users violate these policies repeatedly like our policies ag

him in his outlets is wrong it's not just a slippery slope it's a dangerous cliff apple removing alex jones him in for worse isn't some terrible form of censorship against conservatives he said sandy hook wasn't real he's seeing parents from the school he said the holocaust wasn't real his not just a conservative he's a conspiracy theorist hurts people in four wars it has been banned by facebook for and specified hate speech regardless of the facts in this case there bill it's up to sensorial publishers is a global anti trust problem. for the school contadina louden believes the decision could prove damaging for social media giants whether or not you agree with alex jones i would be just the same amount of adam.

alex jones is officially off all of the major, platforms f you are one of alex jones fan this isn't as bad as it sounds you will stilt be able to hear him everywhere on earth if he just speaks in his normal tone of voice, i bet will sneak back on to youtube pretending to be a blogger, he will be like what's up guys, it is me a exwill, this is my tu tore yal on how contouring is secretary-- secretly controlling your mind! let's move on to our top story. this week president trump is officially on vacation. 57bd he deserves it. do you know how much effort it takes to destabilize the entire world? you don't. and for his retreat the president will be staying at his country krub in bedminster which say real town in new jersey even though bedminster sounds like the nickname trump would give himself when is he relaxing. like he would be like for the rest of this week, i'm exly the bed-minister, hence are you the vice bed-minister. and now unfortunately, even though trump gets a vacation, we don't get a vacation from him. because saturday he decided to take a break from his break to a end-- att

. >> so i'm going to start with -- i'm going to start with alex jones, right, talk about some of thatng on with him and his twitter account and other censorships there but i will eventually talk about more traditional republicans and the shadow banning that president trump is tweeting about but we will start with alex jones, so initially, twitter did not censor alex jones, we saw facebook take down content and twitter ceo jack dorsey say that it was under the guides of hate speech, i will start actually with you, ellen, hate speech now we know this doesn't trigger any constitutional protections because these are private entities, but in general, would you say hate speech should be protected? >> no, i don't think hate speech should be protected, you can't burn a cross on somebody's lawn, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. >> that's not hate speech. >> and i think that's fine. >> right. and just to follow up, matt, hate speech before it does deem to be legal although again we are not talking about legalities because these are private entities but when it does trigger your example

right this has social media giants are accused of censorship after banning controversial show host alex jones. also this hour israel and hamas militants reached a tentative ceasefire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror many how young children who are also missing. will hold that it will be ok that somehow it will be ok i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly children are. this is art international bringing you your live news update this hour welcome to the program we start with breaking news from canada where police have confirmed at least four people have been killed in a shooting in the northeast province of new brunswick the incident is still ongoing and the authorities are working to close a perm perimeter they say more details will be given when available meantime locals have been told to lock their doors and avoid the area in the city of frederict

right this is social media giants are accused of censorship after banning controversial show host alex jones. and israel and hamas militants reached a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets fired from the gaza strip. and the legacy of terror we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many had young children who are also missing or will hold this you'll be ok but some call it will only be ok i just feel so sort of for the children it's so difficult when you don't know exactly you children are. very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r.t. h.q. in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. described as the brink of a new economic war washington is seeking to further tighten sanctions on russia that's how russian prime minister dmitry medvedev has described the proposed move over accusations about the poisoning of former russian double agents and basically paul and his daughter in britain back in march. if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency

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. >>> it is a twitter timeout for conspiracy theorist alex jones.twitter's ceo explains why he made the move and how some of his own employees are sharing his disapproval. >>> how are bridges here in the bay area similar to that collapsed bridge inta that killed 39 people? coming up we investigate. san frs now joining the growing list of silicon valley tech co >>> right now, san francisco based twitter now joining the growing list of silicon valley tech companies limiting access for controversial broadcaster and conspiracy theorist alex jones. twitter ceo jack dorsey says the company put alex jones on a timeout after he urged viewerseso >> today dorsey spoke with nbc news and defended his move and explained why he didn't do it sooner. >> for seven days alex jones will not be able to tweet. but tonight even some twitter employees are questioning whether a week of silence is enough. when radio host and infowars founder alex jones urged his twitter followers to ready their battle rifles against the media, twitter ceo jack dorsey says the company had to