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The question is did he fold to the ADL or did the few sane board/major shareholders regain some measure of control?
Most of the noticer accounts are up. A couple of them were picked off.
Elon's moderation strategy is weird. He allows a lot of content about Jewish power but Jared Taylor is still banned. I'm guessing he personally signs off on high profile moderation decisions like he did with Nick Fuentes, and Jared is considered too hot of a potato for whatever reason. Maybe because he would've caused too much racial strife before the election and undermined Trump's "Javier and Jamal" strategy.
Meanwhile, anti-Jewish content splits the Dem base more than it does the GOP, for a variety of reasons. We saw this most visibly with Michigan Muslims endorsing Trump.
Yeah, for Elon I think it has less to do with ideology ( I don't think he's been Zion-shilling like some Republicans) and more to do with moderation.
Buuuut Alex Jones is back here so I don't know lol
Jones isn't radical from a conservative perspective. His most controversial opinion is what, that Chinese nationals are running Hollywood?
He's dangerous to the left because he normalizes antagonism toward their fraudulent authority. I don't know why, but it seems like they consider him very dangerous or symbolic in some sense.
Even if Jones isn’t super correct all of the time, I think he’s hated because he’s like controlled opposition, without being controlled. Just like Ben Shapiro or the “Intellectual Dark Web” or whatever yahoos you want to name, Jones is, in his own way, approachable for certain kinds of people. Except he’s not approachable because he’s a carefully curated sandbox of normie-right positions, but because he’s a larger than life living meme. People can watch him without agreeing just to see what he’ll say next. He’s a different sort of on-ramp into right-leaning thought, and unlike certain other gatekeepers, even though he does have his blindspots and foolishness, he’s not too concerned with deliberately guiding his viewers into normie-brand conservatism. Any blind spots he has are probably genuine, rather than malicious, and that in itself is dangerous for the powers that be.
(I have seen people call Jones a CIA asset because of his blindspots, but I think that’s far fetched.)
It probably is a lot of "if he notices it it happens this way" moderation from him, and a lot of "then keep him from every noticing" from the moderators and all below him who aren't as nearly on board as he is with certain things.