Jones et al still have the right to free speech. They go after them, they could come after us next you know.
But not the right to call a grieving father a "crisis actor."
Conspiracy nuts were accosting the parents of dead kids and accusing them of being actors. It was shameful. And, there's nothing here about free speech.
beat me to it.
Nobody said he didn’t.
But Jones’ victims still have the right to sue him til he bleeds.
Don’t forget, FRiend, you or I could be also be the next victims of Jones & people like him.
Please don’t conflate.
Defamation lawsuits aren’t intended to silence anyone’s free speech or threaten the First Amendment.
They’re intended to protect PEOPLE from the HARM that results from the dissemination of FAKE NEWS (aka LIES.)
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor,” remember?