The ruling will allow the conspiracy theorist to continue broadcasting on Infowars, while the Sandy Hook families pursue payment of $1.4 billion in defamation damages.
Lawsuits don’t “shut people up”. You can stop someone from defaming you, but you can’t sue to end a radio show. Usually sane people stop talking to stop digging their hole deeper, but Alex Jones isn’t sane.
Lawsuits only assign monetary damages. That’s how they work.
Lawsuits don’t “shut people up”. You can stop someone from defaming you, but you can’t sue to end a radio show. Usually sane people stop talking to stop digging their hole deeper, but Alex Jones isn’t sane.
Lawsuits only assign monetary damages. That’s how they work.
That’s how they work so that’s what they used to try to shut him up for good.
The readership here seems even less nuanced and mature than reddit in many places.
Telling people facts they don’t like always, always ALWAYS amounts to being targeted as an advocate of said thing.
Yeah I quoted a Wikipedia article looking for opinions and got hella downvoted.