Canadian Politics Today

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/us/infowars-youtube-videos-trnd/index.html

Alex Jones is one step closer to being banned from YouTube. 

It kind of bugs me that if you post a copyrighted song or video, you're gone. No strikes, you're gone. But you can advocate to your legions of mentally unstable followers to harass teenagers, you get a stern wag of the finger.

Part of the problem is that YouTube makes money off Alex Jones.

The other part of the problem is that if they take action, they make him a martyr of sorts, in the minds of his deranged followers.  Think back a few years to when Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos (or "MILO" as he calls himself) after Milo had his legions of retards harassing Leslie Jones to the point that Jones quit Twitter in very public fashion. It was a black eye for Twitter to have an actual celebrity quit their platform because it had become overrun with racist verbal diarrhea that Twitter couldn't do anything about. But on the other hand it was argued by some that Milo had been the victim of censorship and blah blah blah and that his political view was being silenced.  And if YouTube bans Alex Jones they will similarly face accusations of censorship, and "covering up the real truth!" and will confirm in the minds of his idiot audience that there's a global conspiracy to oppress "the truth".

Can Alex Jones' bullshit survive on its own, as opposed to existing as a pervasive troll on mainstream channels ?

I believe he built his brand through his own network of websites (infowars, prisonplanet, and related entities) and I don't think he's dependent on YouTube to get his bullshit out there. Youtube can't put a cork on this bottle.

 -k