 YouTube is the latest service to remove Alex Jones' content, which follows Facebook, Apple and Spotify yanking InfoWars pages and podcasts over the last day or so. Engadget has confirmed that YouTube has taken down the verified Alex Jones Channel (which had more than 2.4 million subscribers) for violating community guidelines, and has contacted YouTube for additional details. In July, YouTube took down several of Jones' videos for hate speech, and issued a strike (essentially a warning) against his channel. It seems that with other companies taking a harder stance against Jones' content, YouTube is less willing to tolerate the controversy Jones brings. Last week, Spotify took down some episodes of Jones' podcast following a backlash against the conspiracy theorist; the company ruled that the episodes violated its hate speech policy. Stitcher has removed the podcast too. Source: Oliver Darcy (Twitter)
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