PayPal Gives InfoWars the boot

If I'd known that this month was going to be so fully of celebratory toasts to Alex Jones' bigoted InfoWars media empire being torn apart, piece-by-piece, I'd have bought one of those magnum-sized bottles of Jameson from Costco.

From The Verge:

PayPal will no longer do business with Infowars, according to a post on the conspiracy theory site this morning. PayPal broke the news in an email to Infowars yesterday, saying the company had conducted a comprehensive review of the Infowars site and found that it promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions, a violation of PayPals acceptable use policy. Infowars had used PayPal to process transactions for its on-site store; the site will have ten days to find new payment processors.

PayPals partnership with the site was highlighted in August by Right Wing Watchs Jared Holt, who described highly publicized and egregious violations of the platforms own terms of service. Reached by The Verge, Holt said todays move had been a long time coming. Removing PayPal from the Infowars platform inhibits Jones ability to make money from his malice, Holt said, but its a bit odd it took so long given how egregiously Infowars violated the platforms terms of service.

So yeah--kicked to the curb like so much crazed, racist conspiracy-peddling trash.

For those of you keeping score at home, that's PayPal, YouTube, Twitter and Apple's iOS App Store that have all told InfoWars to jog on. Given the number of lives Jones' hateful bullshit touches on a regular basis, I'm very happy to see every possible avenue he has to profit from the bile and fear he spreads to make a living go up in flames. Read the rest