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* [[Persona Non Grata]]: Mounting pressure from victims of mass shootings along with Jones's tendency to sow discord against minorities and people of other faiths forced social media outlets and web services to ''permanently ban'' Jones and InfoWars. [[Facebook]], [[Apple]], YouTube, [[Spotify]], [[Periscope]], [[Roku]] and [[Twitter]] removed all of Jones's accounts and content posted by him or his affiliates, to name a few. Online payment service PayPal wanted nothing to do with him either. The official InfoWars mobile apps were also removed from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] also banned his article from being made, as the site deemed him untropeable (despite having a similar article on fellow conspiracy theorist [[David Icke]]).
** One of his fans who was caught making death threats to the parents of Sandy Hook victims was forbidden from ever logging onto InfoWars as part of her plea bargain.
** Even worse for Jones, after [[Elon Musk]] acquired Twitter, many banned accounts belonging to controversial posters (including that of [[Donald Trump]]) were reinstated, but Jones' was ''not''. Musk's brief public statement regarding this was, “My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”
* [[Stealth Parody]]: Possibly used against him in the rotoscoped film ''[[Waking Life]]''. In it, he is shown yelling one of his monologues over a car loudspeaker, while the animation slowly increases his skin hue to brighter, darker shades of red. This could just be a simple exaggeration used in many pieces of animation, or a reference to the ''imprisoned psychopath'' who is shown in the same way earlier in the movie while he loudly and publicly devises the ''most harmful and painful way to kill the people who got him into prison in the first place''.
* [[Too Soon]]: He has ''defied'' this notion many times:
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