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originally posted by: frogs453
The difference is when you slander people. So much so that they recieve death threats or threats of raping the daughter of the principal. When you incite people to attack other people that goes beyond free speech.
originally posted by: Tekner
Yeah they should definitely hold Jones responsible if someone else does something because of words he says. While were at it then, can we sue the media companies for the countless times they lied about police shootings and incited riots?
originally posted by: fishy6
originally posted by: godsovein
Hows this one not on here. It was actually on Fox today.
Stopped working over there for a few minutes and watched, was like it has to be like a billion by the time. So of course, why not make it a cool trillion?
Because I tell ya what, the idea of AJ being able to cough up a billion cash, has to be something like Jeff Bezos coughing up something like I dunno $7 trillion cash? $57 trillion? I dont even keep up on any of this, but what the hell???
Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay at least $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy, a Connecticut jury said on Wednesday. The verdict, which came after three weeks of testimony in a state court in Waterbury, Connecticut, far outstripped the $49 million Jones was ordered to pay in August by a Texas jury in a similar case brought by two other Sandy Hook parents. The Connecticut verdict applies to both Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems LLC, the owner of Jones' Infowars website. FSS filed for bankruptcy in July. The plaintiffs in the Connecticut case included more than a dozen relatives of 20 children and six staff members who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012. Jones claimed for years that the massacre was staged as part of a government plot to take away Americans' guns. www.reuters.com...
They are trying to make an example of him to make sure nobody disturbs the narrative.
originally posted by: frogs453
The families and those involved were hurt. Living in fear from threats to their families, some had to move due to them.
You feel his baseless and false claims were just free speech. Juries felt it was defamation.
originally posted by: olaru12
During and after the Sandy Hook school shooting, you could be banned on ATS for going against the MSN narrative. What's that tell you?
originally posted by: frogs453
a reply to: Xtrozero
The families and those involved were hurt. Living in fear from threats to their families, some had to move due to them.
You feel his baseless and false claims were just free speech. Juries felt it was defamation.
originally posted by: Mazius
a reply to: olaru12
Is that true?