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Jun 25, 2024 3:33 AM
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0003l7gl6o
eromitlab
Whatever bad things befall Alex Jones, it will never be as much as he deserves.
WhichEndDoITypeIntoAgain
This sparks joy
ToSisPoS
Ping me when it happens.
So many gleeful “he’s gonna get it this time!” Likebaits have made me skeptical.
FellaWithUmbrella
Goldielocksbear
WOO HOO 🎉
metalhippy1977
WynnCreek
Where will I buy overpriced bullshit supplements now though?
Bugbladder
Daealis
Good. Fuck this bloated poisonous toad.
RocMage
warinfos dot com to release in 2025
Pusheenicorn1992
Not if someone else takes it first
33WhiskeyTX
Now they just have to come up with the remaining 1.499999 billion.
Sechran
Still took entirely too long.
OneUniverse
From some movie, "Do you want 5 in the chest, or 1 and bleed out slowly?" The legal system is like getting a toe caught in a ringer. Not much at first, but eventually every drop of blood will be squeezed out of you. Unless you have a lawyer with a very sharp knife and didn't need that foot anyway.
QuanticChaos
HA AH HA HA HA HA, Fuck em!
Recursiv3
Number1Cause
Oh well. Bye
RtsWillH1Mself
As a guy who tends to lean conservative a lot of the time... Fuck that guy. And the qAnon followers.
Froggie243
Yeah uh this says sell off, not shut down. And given the raging favoritism the audiences of right wing media have, am I the only one concerned about an even bigger shithead taking over the platform?
keyblader1985
I fought the info and the info won
PunnyTiger
I hope he ends up doing a pod case from a card board box outside starbucks on their free wifi
itsallaboutthecones
At what point does he cash in the Remington retirement plan?
fractalsphere
GOOD
ontarioOT
Rockafella83
mygodhasabiggerdick
All I can hear when I see her is, " Pussy STAYS TIGHT ! "
chewmaca2
ayeseaturtles
Br0doSwaggins
Dumb question:
Is there anything stopping somebody like Elon Musk from paying off Jone's debt to keep his InfoWars operation running?
IAlwaysUpvoteSunsets
So...what asshole is gonna buy it and keep putting out the same crap?
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Moooffury87
He'd struggle with NZs laws, and he cant go to the states.
jethroismaxbaer5772
There is a theory on YouTube that Alex got all his material from Warhammer 40K.
Justanotherbloodyacctname
Using the grey knights armour *chef's kiss*
DarthGoodguy
mygodhasabiggerdick
Nah...he gets everything from movies. He even tells his listeners that movies are the way GLobalists pre-program us to accept everything because its evil, Satanic gobbldeygook that has to be told to the public and therefore accepted before they put it into effect.
Even writing that made me hate how fucking stupid he and his cult is.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
The funny thing is that a lot of people in his audience will try to do any stupid stunt they see in an action movie as soon as they walk out of the cinema. I'm not saying he's right, but ...
trhopkins
Victory! Now do Trump!
TheBlueMuppet
There'snothinghere.jpg
Clockworkdancerobot
And the rest of his media sphere hangers on. Every last one of them.
uplookdont
Still far frm victory https://youtu.be/oELwtNQDP_A?feature=shared
Wrinkle666
They are selling infowars network. Meaning some other Nazi will run it .
The701
Time for a Gofundme I guess, and then dead-end their Internet domain names.
trhopkins
Ill chip in
Wrinkle666
Shit good idea
NothingPrince
I am interested to see what happens on the 11th of July.
Talbotous
I too am interested. I breath is bated but not holding.
NothingPrince
Will they send him to jail, which he deserves, but will start a riot and people will try and murder the Judge and Jury. Or give him a slap on the wrist. I think making him do public service eg pick up litter at the park or clean graphite in an orange jump suit will be a good middle ground.
Isthe4thtimethecharm
He won't get prison time, sadly. But if he did, that would most likely only increase the chance of his base to vote for him.
PrincessBatCat
I'd love to see that middle ground if only to watch him keel over in the mid day heat.
Evillairforrent
Picking up graphite seems like a good punishment.
Just tell him the giegercounter going off his his approval rating.
Talbotous
Tick tick ticky means america is becoming great again.
AskThisGuy
Will it be sold off? If so, can't someone else just keep it running? Anyone have any info on how that works?
ignatiuspopular
By liquidation I believe they mean selling off the assets used to make the show. Cameras, lights, dick pills, computers etc. I guess hypothetically someone could purchase the rights to the name and domain but I can't see that happening.
AskThisGuy
Thanks, I'd rather the answer be, 'nobody can buy the name and operate the site' but I'll take what I can.
flavord
I think that's underestimating the persistence of MAGA types. Plus, why can't Jones just open another youtube channel?
AmZero85
I hope they're dumb enough to not wipe the computers before auction. Could be some interesting stuff on those hard drives and servers. 😀
CosplayComet
It was used as the platform to disseminate misinformation and fraud. Why wasn't it shut down the SECOND he was found guilty?
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SavageDrums
Everything he says is crazy criminal.
Spudd86
Maybe it should be, but that doesn't make it so. It is verily hard for speech to be a crime in the US.
JingoBells
People often need to be given more time to present additional fucktons of evidence, and also be given an abundance of due process and leniency for future um...situations.
ThatOtherMacAvoyWoman
For the same reason that Fox News is allowed to exist
cosonfused
The reasoning was : then he can continue to make money by spreading lies, so he can pay off the lawsuit he got because he was using the platform to spread lies.
SavageDrums
Because rich people are better than the rest of us, so they deserve special treatment!
Sensiblyinteresting
Some of the victims in an earlier case got way less money but would get more money if the business continued to make money, legal eagle did a video on it recently https://youtu.be/oELwtNQDP_A?si=f62r7PLM4S9WpTjN
sunyata119
Free speech
UsuallySpecial
Remember the guarantee isn’t free speech in general, it’s free speech against the government. Yelling fire in a theatre and causing a panic that hurts/kills people is still legally actionable, and yelling antivax during a pandemic should be too.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
See what your level of „free speech“ brings you. It gives you dead people because people get radicalized so easily. It gives you people who harass the grieving parents of dead kids.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
And yet your rank on the freedom index isn’t even high.
tschallacka
Its a bankruptcy. The trustee is appointed to get the most money for debtors as possible. In this case, infowars would generate more money by letting it run
usernameusedinlessplatforms2
Unless it would cause more ppl to sue him/it for the BS...
idiotsonfire
Because he's wealthy and the wealthy don't suffer punishment the same way as literally everyone else in this failed state.
Spudd86
Did you miss the part where he's loosing everything because of his actions? He didn't commit a crime, but he was found to be liable for damages. The damages are more than everything he owns is worth, so his assets are being sold to pay them.
idiotsonfire
He should have lost it the instant he engaged in stochastic terrorism against the Sandy Hook families. The FCC should have brought the goddamn hammer down on him for broadcasting a fucking conspiracy theory about crisis actors. No, this is not fucking sufficient, the dude needs to be PERMANENTLY BARRED FROM THE INTERNET AND ALL BROADCASTING, PERIOD, FOR FUCKING EVER AND SERVE JAIL TIME FOR COMPLICITY IN DEATH THREATS.
ThisNameUnavailable
Okay so you're also on board with internet banning and jailing everyone on here who calls for executing billionaires and nazis right? Right...?
ThisNameUnavailable
Aaaand you muted so i cant show why you're wrong 😂
idiotsonfire
Dumbfucking false equivalency. No one here has a position or platform to broadcast to millions of people.
Like2Fox
It's not shutting down because it's wrong, it's shutting down because there is no money to run it.
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Like2Fox
Last I checked, the bankruptcy court did not see it that way.
C111red
I would advise you to listen to the interviews of Sandy Hook families. Those who got accused, screamed at, and harassed by conspiracy theorists who accused them of faking the incident to support Hillary Clinton. That their children were already dead or killed by them. At least some of those harassers cited Infowars as their source. He knowingly decided to attack the incident and the survivors, decrying it as false and knowing that at least some of his listeners would believe him.
Like2Fox
Yes, that was the reason for the lawsuits I know.
donkeymoney
what money to run it...you just have to stuff Alex Jones full of cocaine and put him in front of a camera
Shitheid
*whiskey. Apparently that's how they actually do it
dasAchteck
If you've heard a number of his rants, uppers are definitely involved.
Shitheid
I only hear things filtered through the occasional Knowledge Fight episode. Would not be surprised if he has a whole pharmacy on hand
haveyoueverhadbutteronapoptart
Because we have a constitution that guarantees free speech. Even if it's ignorant.
UsuallySpecial
Remember the guarantee isn’t free speech in general, it’s free speech against the government. Yelling fire in a theatre and causing a panic that hurts/kills people is still legally actionable, and yelling antivax during a pandemic should be too.
joeynew
If that were the case then the government would use that same logic to round up political opponents for being unpatriotic or some shit. I remember the runup to the Iraq War where if you questioned the weapons of mass destruction line they would say you sided with the terrorists.
ThatOtherMacAvoyWoman
It’s not free speech against the government, it’s freedom from prosecution by the government no matter the speech (save for stuff like yelling fire in a theater, inciting violence etc)
Feralkyn
Iirc the yelling fire thing isn't true. You really can say pretty much anything short of hate speech.
Feralkyn
(For 'fire in a crowded theater' they could try and charge you with disorderly conduct and that's about it)
ThatOtherMacAvoyWoman
There’s no such thing as hate speech. Meaning, there’s no legal definition. And that’s a good thing. Otherwise each bad president would change the definition to “anything that speaks bad about me”
Feralkyn
Damn I mixed up German and American laws again
pres465
"But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done." (From Schenk v. U.S.) Essentially it mattered that there was a war and it mattered that there was a clear and present danger.
Feralkyn
I'm referring to the "fire in a crowded theater" myth specifically
req4adream99
First amendment. Trial was civil not criminal.
thisismysociallife
Oh my god can I crowd fund the purchase then use it to peddle even crazier conspiracy theories like one talking Clinton has an alien baby and Bigfoot is dating Hitler levels of crazy
SavageDrums
So... Less crazy than Alex Jones?
req4adream99
Sure.
LokiShade
Not much of a change.
eetsumkaus
Careful. That's how we got QAnon
ImageAberration
Great idea! I would absolutely chip in to turn InfoWars into the new Weekly World News / Coast to Coast AM!
One condition, though: You can't announce the change on InfoWars. You make the transition as invisible as you can and see how long it takes the scumbag audience to figure it out.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Already done back in the day. Anyone else remember Coast to Coast with Art Bell?
Comet260
He was in the first Prey game. 2006.
halkeye
I used to love show. Stayed up late often to listen. I don't remember that level of conspiracy though. Just general science function stuff
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Had a bunch of paranormal/aliens/angels/Bermuda triangle stuff, as well as legit science stuff. Kid me enjoyed listening to it with my grandma late at night!
joshshello
Used to listen on the way to work every morning