Brother Nathanael - Alex Jones Makes NYT Headlines!
Aired: 2018-08-09
Duration: 05:43


=== Tech Giants Confront Hate Speech (03:49) ===

[00:00:01]  Making headlines on the Jewish-owned New York Times is every journalist's dream.
[00:00:07]  But for Alex Jones, it's all trial and tribulation.
[00:00:12]  Citing the removal of Infowars programming from major social media, the Times jabbed Jones as a trafficker in unfounded conspiracy theories marred with hate speech.
[00:00:25]  But why unfounded?
[00:00:26]  Are some conspiracy theories actually founded on evidence?
[00:00:31]  After all, the term conspiracy theory is said to be invented by the CIA so as to prevent disbelief of big-gov narrations.
[00:00:41]  But there's a new kid on the block.
[00:00:43]  Hate speech!
[00:00:45]  ADL and the University of California at Berkeley's D-Lab have been working to develop a new approach to tackle online hate using the latest methods.
[00:00:54]  The goal of the Online Hate Index is to help tech platforms better understand the growing amount of hate on social media.
[00:01:01]  and to use that information to address the problem.
[00:01:04]  By combining artificial intelligence and machine learning with social science, the online hate index will ultimately uncover and identify trends and patterns in hate speech across different platforms.
[00:01:16]  We've just completed our first phase of research and we found that the machine learning model identified hate speech accurately between 78 and 85 percent of the time.
[00:01:27]  In the next phase of our project, We will look at specific targeted populations in a more detailed manner.
[00:01:34]  We'll examine content on multiple social media sites.
[00:01:37]  And we'll identify strategies to deploy the model more broadly.
[00:01:41]  While there's still a long way to go with artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions, we believe the Online Hate Index will help tech companies better understand the extent of hateful content on their platforms by creating community-based definitions of hate speech.
[00:01:55]  Now, are tech giants using this hate speech terminology to blur the distinction between legitimate opinion and actual libel?
[00:02:05]  It sure stumps Zuckerberg.
[00:02:08]  Can you define hate speech?
[00:02:11]  Senator, I think that this is a really hard...
[00:02:14]  Question. And I think it's one of the reasons why we struggle with it.
[00:02:18]  For months, and really for years, the tech companies have been reluctant to weigh in on a lot of these controversial speech issues.
[00:02:24]  But it appears, after months of criticism, the tech companies have finally said, in the case of Alex Jones, that enough is enough.
[00:02:30]  Nah. Enough is enough is a violation of the entire at-large community standards, not the standards of a tiny coterie of cyber-censors.
[00:02:42]  Social media should be on par with public telecommunication companies.
[00:02:47]  They don't decide if you're politically correct before providing services.
[00:02:52]  Social media should be under the same constraints.
[00:02:56]  Not by BigGov, but by Internet users who expect a free flow of information.
[00:03:02]  Jones had millions of viewers.
[00:03:05]  Why not account for their consent?
[00:03:07]  Doesn't their voice count too?
[00:03:10]  How about 2.3 million of them?
[00:03:13]  I represent Parkland, Florida, and in this discussion of social media, the first thing that comes to mind for me is the savage attacks on the student survivors of Stoneman Douglas.
[00:03:24]  One of the most virulent strains of these attacks was that the students didn't survive a school shooting, that they were crisis actors, that they were planted by some mysterious cabal to finally get Congress to do something about gun violence.
[00:03:34]  And in the weeks after the shooting, Alex Jones' YouTube channel posted a video that was seen by 2.3 million subscribers, alleging that these were merely actors and not real students.

=== 9/11 and Free Speech (02:07) ===

[00:03:48]  That's Jones' opinion, right or wrong?
[00:03:51]  Wacky or tacky, he should still have his say.
[00:03:55]  And we'll decide if he's a quack.
[00:03:57]  For with no legal definition of hate speech, cyber censors decide what speech they hate others to hear, while conspiracy theorists like Jones become anyone going off the prescriptive grid.
[00:04:10]  After all, Jones refused to tout the 9-11 script.
[00:04:14]  Is there only a kosher side of the playbook?
[00:04:18]  Where were you on September 11th?
[00:04:21]  You know, I was home.
[00:04:30]  And so that particular morning, because I have light-colored hair and fair skin, and I'm an annuity to the dermatologist, my wife, God bless her, had made an appointment for me at the doctor.
[00:04:46]  Kind of iffy, if you ask me.
[00:04:48]  So, why not let Jones have his say, even if he's kind of iffy?
[00:04:54]  Alex Jones is the Internet's most notorious conspiracy theorist, and with his site Infowars, he's peddled a number of dark and bizarre conspiracy theories.
[00:05:02]  Sandy Hook, it's got inside job written all over it.
[00:05:06]  You want us to cover Pizzagate? We have covered it.
[00:05:07]  We are covering it. And all I know is, God help us, we're in the hands of Pure Evil.
[00:05:11]  Don't like what you hear? Don't want others to hear it?
[00:05:14]  Call it dark and bizarre, and voila, the pinky on the censorship key hits delete.
[00:05:21]  Like the kickoff of the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution, Jones got guillotined right smack in the middle of Cyberspace Square.
[00:05:30]  And you, Mr.
[00:05:32]  and Mrs. Journalist, even if you write for the New York Times, might just be next.
[00:05:37]  Isn't it time for an alternative Internet infrastructure?
[00:05:42]  You better believe it.