YES for Infowars on Steemit and DTube

As many of you are aware by now, controversial InfoWars and its founder Alex Jones have been banned from all mainstream social media; even YouPorn jumped on the bandwagon and banned them!

I believe in free speech, I believe that all human beings have the right to think freely and express their opinion freely! This freedom didn’t just happen. Over the course of human history, millions have died and struggled so that we today can enjoy (to some extent) that freedom! It is our responsibility and duty to preserve this right and more importantly to ensure it flourishes!

While we can’t deny that the mainstream media and social media have done good things for society, we can’t forget they have also for decades engaged in unethical activities (tax evasion, selling personal data, etc.); they thus do not have the required morality to impose on us which opinions can be published and which cannot! Even porn sites are getting into this debate? Seriously?

Banning an opinion does not erase it; at the contrary it publicizes it and makes it bigger (certainly many had not even heard of InfoWars until the recent events). Opinions should be expressed freely and then those who disagree with it should also have the equal right to contradict it and argue against it. The evolution of humanity depends on opinions and ideas being discussed and argued.

The public has a fundamental right to choose what to read and what to watch or listen to. Even if I disagree with many opinions around the globe, I would still like access to them in order to keep improving my personal beliefs, arguments, and perspective of the truth.

InfoWars, other banned personalities, and EVERYONE should find in Steemit and DTube a safe refuge that protects their fundamental freedom. Community members will then endorse or rejects expressed opinions and ideas.

photo source: infowars.com
PS: I personally dot not agree with many of Alex Jones opinions; the right to free expression surpasses everything