re: Sandy Hook shooting victims' families win legal victory against InfoWars, Alex Jones

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A statement does not constitute “political speech“ if it was made with a profit motive. 

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If seeking a profit is the sole line between political and commercial speech, almost every news outlet in this country is in trouble.

Imo, Jones may be susceptible because I believe his schtick is largely an act. I think he even admitted as such in his divorce or custody proceeding. If there are memos, emails or other electronic information that show Jones doesn't actually believe what he is spouting about Sandy Hook, but does it anyway for ratings or attention, that's a much better argument to possibly survive summary judgment.

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Moles are uncommon yet Bill doesnt have one . Try again . Does bill also have the hook left eyebrow? Or the bags under his eyes? Geez dude you lap up the fake news bravo .

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Dude only crazy people are obsessed with these kind of questions. I’m not buying your crazy bullshite.

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What? I don't understand. Are you accusing ME of believing this? I am the one trying to debunk it!

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He actually sells stuff cheaper than you can get elsewhere. Many are relabeled products you can buy elsewhere for more money

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I’ll take your word for it. I don’t peruse the snake oil market that much.

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We look forward to gaining access to Infowars' internal marketing and financial documents

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Money hounds and the left celebrates

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I believe in a cyclical climate system, that all the food is organic, and Alex Jones sells retards supplements at ridiculous markups.

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We agree!

It's not crazy or obsessive to ask simple questions and not just accept what's on the news.

It's a simple question and the fact that the local govt blocks any attempt to obtain the answer should strike someone as odd.

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We look forward to gaining access to Infowars' internal marketing and financial documents to show that Jones has built an empire as nothing more than a conspiracy profiteer, as alleged in our complaint."

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Um. I'm not aware of a law against being a conspiracy profiteer? I'm pretty sure that's called free speech and entertainment.

Why the hell are they entitled to his internal marketing documents and financial records?

This is a dangerous new precedent. One that hopefully can be used against someone, say, like NBC who ran with the Julie Swetnik gang rape story accusation against Kavanaugh even though they knew they were fake. That is absolutely as terrible as what Alex Jones did. NBC should suffer the same sanctions and their entire marketing data, financial data, and journalists story references should be made public and then they should be banned from social media and all hosting sites should shut down their pages.

Equality and fairness right?

There's no doubt Alex Jones is a weirdo and takes things too far. But this will be another example of bullshite double standards

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listed their addresses

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Funny you should mention that..

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The Pozner family’s story is recounted in the court filings: In 2015, after Mr. Pozner succeeded in having an Infowars video taken down from Mr. Jones’s YouTube channel, “Mr. Jones went on an angry rant about me for nearly an hour,” Mr. Pozner said in an affidavit. Mr. Jones “also hosted a call with an obsessed fellow conspiracy theorist who issued a threat to me.”



“Mr. Jones then showed his audience my personal information and maps to addresses associated with my family,” the affidavit says.

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A month after the shooting, he began broadcasting excerpts from Ms. De La Rosa’s interview with the CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, which was taped in front of the Edmond Town Hall in Newtown. Mr. Jones falsely claimed that the interview was taped in a studio before a “green screen.”

In an April 2017 Infowars broadcast titled “Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed,” according to the court documents, Mr. Jones aired the clip of Ms. De La Rosa’s interview, noting that when Mr. Cooper turns his head, “his nose disappears repeatedly because the green screen isn’t set right.” The Pozner filings include an affidavit from Grant Fredericks, a forensic video analyst and expert witness, in which he attributes the anomaly in the videotape to “postproduction compression,” common in video production, and said “no credible video professional, editor or web-content specialist would conclude” that the interview was taped in front of a screen.

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