Twitter refuses to ban Alex Jones, says a bunch of words while failing to justify it

Confirming its status as the social media platform where propagating conspiracy theories that hound the families of school shooting victims out of their homes won’t get you banned, but pretending to be an Italian Elon Musk will, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey refused to give in to peer pressure—the coolest kind of pressure!—this week and ban Alex Jones and his show Infowars from the site. Dorsey was responding to an increasingly fast-paced movement—kicked off in full by Apple earlier in the week—to remove Jones’ vitriolic content from a number of platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and Spotify.
But not Twitter, which has wrestled for years—at Dorsey’s own admission—with how to handle pretty much any situation where anybody yells at them, ever. Now, they’re trying to duck away from their refusal to remove Jones’ content—which includes Islamophobia, “dehumanizing language,” and lawsuit-launching assertions that the families of kids killed during the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 are “crisis actors”—as a variant of that old playground favorite, “I’m not touching you, so technically I’m not breaking any rules.”