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Jones was the first "Joe Rogan"-like target of the MSM.

Before Rogan and "Ivermectin" there was Alex Jones and "elites."

MSM flexed every muscle, used every trick of leverage, every political 'agent' to try and demolish his presence and following.

They won.

Yes. Alex Jones and Sandy Hook was the hill where free-speech absolutism went to die. They got us. It worked. No one had the heart to keep making the argument that Jones should be allowed to speculate, in the face of the narrative of suffering families and children killed in tragedy. I have seen video compilations of the so-called "crisis actors", and you know what, they're pretty compelling. It's not like it was an entirely baseless cynical cash grab exploitation to be curious, as Mr Jones was portrayed as perpetrating. But no one wanted to take that side. Understandably.

And it's where we saw that it wasn't a "slippery slope". It was a damn cliff. Once the ground was ceded that this was an unquestionably horrible thing, you couldn't go back and argue upon it without seeming like a monster. And once there was a single unquestionable basis for claiming Mr Jones as a monster, allegation upon allegation could be thrown at it and stuck upon that portrayal, turning him into a larger-than-life image, an icon of the projected enemy of proper, well-adjusted, truth-based America. He had to fall.

And with that fall came a pattern. He was the first, then others followed, in a new era of censorship. The idea that media should be censored in some way took hold as a result. Free-speech absolutism is now seen as dangerous, ridiculous. What an unlikely poster-boy Mr Jones became. He made a career of going over lines, often to an unlikeable extent even among his fans. He claimed he was the "tip of the spear", and perhaps so, because that's the bit that gets shattered. In some way he's getting what he wants, being the focus, and I can't really blame him for that. He's been very consistent.