re: The Alex Jones Verdict Is Wrong and Dangerous

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Did he accuse those relatives of complicity in faking the deaths of their loved ones?

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As a point of fact, it was even more absurd than that. Jones didn’t simply say the families of Sandy Hook faked the deaths of their loved ones, he claimed they were actors and the whole thing was staged. In other words, not even real people.

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Mind if I ask you a personal question...do you have kids?

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Doesn't matter, Brian

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I'm just curious if PoV on this issue splits among parents and non parents. If you are not a parent can imagine being in the Sandy Hook parents shoes? How would you react to Jones and his followers actions? Just laugh it off? Would you want to take any action...legal or otherwise as a response for someone talking unbelievable shite about your family in one of the worst times imaginable and then having his fans harras your family with death threats.

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People don't get $45M for hurt feelings. They may not get $500k for wrongful death. Also, were they watching his videos? It's not like he was standing at the end of their driveway harassing them every day. Everything they heard likely had at least one intermediary. I don't think they enjoyed it, but I don't think it would have been such a large penalty if AJ had been a liberal attacking conservatives. All of these stories are designed to have a chilling effect on counter-narrative speech. Even if you don't like AJ (I never really watched him, maybe 10 minutes total over however many years), this should be disturbing. Eventually the authoritarians will have us in a vice-grip and their enablers (traditionally the "scholars") will be the first ones to reach room temperature.

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Would you want to take any action...legal or otherwise as a response for someone talking unbelievable shite about your family in one of the worst times imaginable and then having his fans harras your family with death threats.

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This begs the question: what is the reputational damage for the claim you don’t even exist? Put aside the heinous way in which these children died and think about what Jones was actually claiming.

Any claim for damages is akin to the families of those in the Apollo program claiming that moonshot denialism has caused them great emotional trauma. It is patently absurd.

Let's all use common sense here, this is a targeted take out. The prosecutor actually used those words to the jury.

This was a show trial, there were multiple cameras and a director in the Court room. They got what they wanted and Alex will not pay anything (insurance will).