While Alex Jones spreads hateful and often fake messages, making entities like Facebook responsible over what is okay and what isn’t sets a dangerous precedent, believes Timothy B. Lee of ARS Technica. This risks turning Jones into a martyr, fueling his conspiracy theories of liberal repression of free speech. Additionally, it poses the question of what other content social media sites should be labelling as inappropriate for their mediums. Facebook’s approach of filtering content by the reliability of its creators, giving prominence to truthful sources, is a better approach that avoids direct censorship. Banning Jones was excessive.