Mon. 8/6 - Everyone Bans Alex Jones

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4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Nearly every major tech platform bans Alex Jones to one degree or another, does Facebook really want to know your bank balance, MoviePass comes with another subscription pivot, Apple’s plans for India and why $1,000 smartphones might only be the beginning. Links:Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars' Alex Jones (The Guardian)Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users (WSJ)Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google (TechCrunch)MoviePass Abandons Price Hike, But Will Limit Films to Three a Month (Variety)iPhone Chipmaker Races to Recover After Crippling Computer Virus (Bloomberg)Here’s Apple’s Plan to Keep From Losing the World’s Fastest-Growing Smartphone Market (Bloomberg Businessweek)Why iPhone and Android phone prices will get even higher (CNET) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home from Monday, August 6th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, nearly every major tech platform banned Alex Jones to one degree or another.
0:16.0	Facebook wants to know your bank balance.
0:18.0	Movie Pass has another subscription pivot.
0:22.0	Apple has plans for India and why
0:25.2	thousand-dollar smartphones might only be just the beginning. Here's what you
0:30.4	missed today in the world of tech.
0:49.2	As of today, nearly every major tech content platform has banned Alex Jones and or Infa Wars from their platforms to one degree or another. This began late last week when Spotify started taking down selected episodes of the Alex Jones show
0:55.6	from its podcasting platform.
0:58.8	Then this morning Apple completely removed the Alex Jones show from its podcast directory.
1:04.2	Apple also removed five podcasts produced by Jones's Infa Wars organization.
1:09.6	Only one Infa Wars podcast remains on iTunes at the time of this recording, Real News with David Knight.
1:18.0	Hot on the heels of all this at 3 a.m. Local Time, which is an unusual time for Facebook to release news.
1:24.7	Facebook said that it had also banned four pages run by Alex Jones for, quote,
1:30.4	repeated violations of community standards, end quote. The four pages in question. quote,
1:33.0	repeated violations of community standards, end quote.
1:34.0	The four pages in question were the Alex Jones Channel page,
1:37.0	the Alex Jones page, the Infowars page,
1:39.0	and the Infowars Nightly News page.
1:42.0	Facebook had previously imposed a 30-day basis. Infowars nightly news page.
1:42.5	Facebook had previously imposed a 30-day ban on Jones personally,
1:46.4	quote, for his role in posting violating content to these pages, end quote.
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