We do truly live in a society.
Sad. Yet another dissenting voice is silenced and absorbed by the Establishment™. Was Jones bat shit insane? Was he wrong many times? Yes.
But dammit, he shouldn't have been silenced by lawfare after decades of just doing his thing. Free speech is free speech for fuck's sake. Even speech you hate or find repulsive or depraved. And now these humorless, soulless bureaucrats who were once humorists who sold their souls to become empty mouthpieces of the man, want to parade Infowars' corpse before us like a defeated foe. Disgusting! Loathsome!
Not to mention, this guy was comedy gold, a living breathing meme to end all memes.
My only solace is that the Internet is chipping away at the establishment's stranglehold on discourse it once enjoyed in the past. We must fight for every inch of that shit. We can't let them retake this ground. Bring back the wild west internet!
Sorry but I have no sympathy for the guy. He got sued because he was selling the narrative that Sandy hook School Shooting was a setup, parents were actors and children that died never existed which resulted in his listeners harassing and threatening those poor people. If that's not an absolutely disgusting behaviour in pursuit of profit then I don't know what is.
And it's not free speech, it's libel and defamation. He was making clear defamatory statements about the parents.
Not saying the guy did nothing wrong. He clearly did. I don't think any of that was good.
But it was clearly an excessive and politically motivated sentence. It was carried out with the goal of permanently silencing a long time and prominent dissident voice.
Possible but from what I've seen he's been pulling every dirty trick in the book to keep his cash and give nothing to the families he hurt. He's had it coming.
As I understand, he basically did nothing to defend himself and did stuff like accidentally send incriminating documents to the plaintiffs. Its not surprising he wound up with the worse case verdict.
