InfoWars publisher and US radio host, Alex Jones, is suing PayPal, claiming bias against conservative views was behind its decision to ban his website.
After the banning of the conspiracy theorist on most major web services like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Mr. Jones alleged PayPal’s ban is “viewpoint discrimination”, calling it a “hazardous precedent”. PayPal later said the case was without merit and that it would vigorously defend itself.
PayPal makes the decision to stop processing payments for InfoWars in September, saying it violated their policies on promoting hate and violence. The ban affected revenue Alex Jones made from selling InfoWars-branded goods and right-wing literature.
According to a 15 page complaint statement from Mr. Jones’s company, “It is at this point well known that large tech companies, located primarily in Silicon Valley, are discriminating against politically conservative entities and individuals, including banning them from social media platforms like Twitter, based solely on their political and ideological points of view.”
It added that “Having effectively cornered the market, PayPal is now using that market power to restrain conservative trade and commerce”.
Mr. Alex Jones is also being sued over alleged defamation by the parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which he has claimed to be a hoax.
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