The lowdown on the ~$1 $Billion Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation jury award - where does free speech end, & criminal liability begin?
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Shiftless2
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Alex Jones' Infowars to be auctioned off to pay Sandy Hook families
Under the terms of the court-ordered sale, anyone can bid for Infowars' assets. The outcome could determine Alex Jones' broadcasting fate.
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Shiftless2
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Can't stop laughing (this is for real and not satire)
"The Onion" just bought Infowars
www.ctvnews.ca
"The Onion" just bought Infowars
Sandy Hook families help The Onion buy Infowars
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than US$1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax.
- fine -
We'll see, after the hearing on the law judge's reservations.
Jones did them wrong.
Now they're paying Jones $Millions ?!
It may all work out ultra-spectacularly.
But I'm just a shade skeptical until it does.
Shiftless2
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Re #64 - In one sense I don't really care about Infowars but Jones ending up living in a cardboard box under a bridge would be fitting.
Here you go Jonesy, a nice snug fit, in move-in condition.but -
The broader issue: The U.S. electorate allowed, empowered Trump, a consummate prolific liar, to bluster his way back to 1600 Penn. Ave.
It's what Skinner called "positive reinforcement", rewarding bad behavior.
Jones seemed to be OK insulting the parents of the slain.
But now that the consequence of such lies result in negative reinforcement to the liar, now Jones (the liar) has a problem with it.
We're going to need an awful lot of "good speech", along with numerous libelous criminals paying severe penalty to re-level the playing-field.
Evidently in the U.S. Republican party, integrity, honesty, responsible governance have completed the transition from de rigueur to passé, obsolete.
Shiftless2
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Apparently a Texas judge is investigating the sale so we shall see what happens ....
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US judge rejects The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars
Onion’s CEO expresses disappointment in judge’s decision, but satirical website remains interested in purchasing Infowars. / Published On 11 Dec 2024A federal judge in the United States has rejected satirical website The Onion’s purchase of right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.
In a decision late on Tuesday, US Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez rejected Jones’s claims that the auction was plagued by “collusion”.
Lopez said he did not want another auction and left it up to the trustee who oversaw the auction to determine the next steps.
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Not a parody: The Onion acquires Alex Jones’s InfoWars in auction
list 2 of 3Far-right US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones files for bankruptcy
list 3 of 3Jury orders Alex Jones to pay families $965m for Sandy Hook lies
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US judge rejects The Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s Infowars
Onion CEO expresses disappointment in judge’s decision, but satirical website remains interested in purchasing Infowars.
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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
By MARK SHERMANThe Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.
The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.
The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.
He is separately appealing a $49 million judgment in a similar defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim.
In the Connecticut case, the judge issued a rare default ruling against Jones and his company in late 2021 because of what she called ....
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.
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This ruling may seem judicially appropriate.
But it may be considered a betrayal by Trump / MAGAs.