I am not an Alex Jones fan. No one should be cleaned out by the government like this.

The 1st Amendment does provide US Citizens a lot of protections, but the 1st Amendment does not protect one from the results of deliberately libeling another person. Despite multiple warnings to stop, Alex Jones insisted on calling the parents of one of the dead Sandy Hook children "Crisis Actors" who falsified the death of their child. The court agreed with those parents' contention that Alex Jones libeled them.
Alex Jones is a dick and deserves to lay in the be he made.

I don't listen to or watch Jones. So I cannot tell you what he did or did not say about Sandy Hook. I trust the mainstream media even less than I trust Jones. I think he's a nutjob.

But I watched Steven Crowder interview him.

He said the media is reporting that he singled people out but Jones said he never did that. He said that after he found he was wrong he apologized on the air, long before there were any lawsuits files against him.

So that that for what it is. I will not defend Jones. However, almost a billion dollars is obscene. It's inexcusable. Nothing he said is worth destroying his life over. How is he supposed to pay that? I don't know his net worth but I am 100% sure that it's not even close a billion.

It's like Simon 'Cock Crows Thrice' Peter and Germany the day after the Nazis lost combined - not a single one of the gazillions that used to lap that writhing tapeworm's corn syrup imbued confetti bullshit like it was their first meal in a week can recall who that blithering cesspool of an overgrown walking cyst that went by Alex Jones is now. None.

Liar

Jones ain't a big ol' tubbolicious bucket of gelatinous-level lovin?

No he's not. Jones is YOUR big ol' tubbolicious bucket of gelatinous-level lovin. Get it straight. I just think he is is an insignificant gravel-voice blowhard who looks at the facts and then just walks just wanders off, like Biden at a press conference.

"How is he supposed to pay that?"

That's his problem 😂

Yes it is but does this mean our legal system is now at liberty to completely destroy our lives and livelihood? That is now how it was set up.

You need to pay attention to the precedent this sets.

There are consequences for breaking the law

Yup. There are consequences to bad rulings that are let stand. But like most liberals this is not a problem for you until it actually affects you. If you don't believe the liberals lies then libs think you should just die.

In interviews, he's not under oath.

I don't watch him either. I find his brand of bombastic bullshit hard to stomach. Like you, I trusted the source I found when I was questioning the judgement, and what seemed to me to be 1A violations. I found that he put himself in that spot, and what he did by calling out private, non public figure individuals by name is what landed him in the hot water he is currently in.

Jones said he never called anyone out by name. I have no idea because I never watched, read or listened to anything he says.

I just know that I have absolutely no trust in the media. The media lies their butts off all the time. They don't even care about reporting the truth, they only report what makes Dems look good an everyone else look evil.

At this point, I believe Jones. I have not looked at the lawsuit or the ruling so I don't know what that says. And honestly I don't care enough about Jones to try to validate his statement. My complaint is this obscene judgment against him. This sets a precedence that grants the courts the power to completely destroy people's lives and livelihood. Jones had better appeal this and get it overturned, not just for his own sake but for the future of this nation. We just cannot allow a government to become this powerful over the lives of the people.

Check out the article referenced in this link:

https://firstamendmentwatch.org/what-does-the-alex-jones-case-mean-for-the-first-amendment-and-disinformation-leading-scholars-lawyers-provide-analysis/

Thanks for posting that article. I didn't know that the case was tried in Texas. I also didn't know that Texas capped judgements at $49.3 million. Well that's not so crazy. I have no problem with that judgment. I do if that nearly a billion dollar judgement was allowed to stand.

I have no clue what Jone's net worth is and that much may also put him out of business. But I think he is probably worth more than that. I don't know how big his following is. I've only met one guy who was a Jones fan.

There is one thing that bugged me about that article. They said "Our organization is dedicated to the principles of free speech and the protection of the First Amendment, but there is no room in our society for the preposterous knowing disinformation spewed by Jones, seemingly only for his personal benefit."

If they were truly dedicated to free speech then they would not setting limits on it. Jones has a right to be as crazy as he wants to be as long as his show is presented as an opinion show. If he can find an audience for his craziness then that is their right. We cannot enforce anyone's idea of what is factual or not on anyone. Crazy speech and factual speech is protected under the 1st amendment.

If you think Jones is off his rocker then, like you and I, you don't have to listen, watch and/or read anything he produces. That is how it should be.

Where there would be a problem is who is going to be the arbiter of what can and cannot be broadcast? Censoring libel and bad language is okay but ideas and concepts should not be. It is up to us to verify if it is true or not.

However, I have a major problem with news media passing themselves off as being the facts but reporting lies. Lies that can be proven to be lies by going to the source to find out the truth.

No, no. You should have watched the court hearings, like you're making sound arguments off of limited data which are fair given that data, but you really need to go back and watch his Texas hearings.

He was warned multiple times of what he was doing. He was told what his rhetoric was bringing other people to do. He was issued a cease and desist order (after being asked to stop) and he didn't. He kept going with it. These families were hurt in such a way you had people like MTG harassing them in public and stirring up the violent minority of the MAGA base to send these families death threats.

WHILE JONES WAS HAVING THESE HEARINGS: He went on his shows between the hearings and told his audience (won't quote or give exact examples as my memory won't permit it) something to the effect that the court cannot be trusted. I'll leave you with this - the prosecution brought this to the attention of the Judge, and she asked him about it...

Pretty sure it's illegal for witnesses or anyone involved in the trial to talk about the trial. Idk. Conjecture on my part. You should go see for yourself.

It was his stupid games ignoring the law plus TWO sets of peers who cleaned him out. Not the government. That's why you're always advised to take legal advise seriously and from real lawyers, not Federico Andino. If he hadn't f'd on both of those, he stood a chance of winning the cases.

But, bullshitslingers will sling around bullshit, as expected.