This is more lawfare.
A direct attack on free speech.
Even though he was a screamer and did have some whacky ideas at times IMHO, InfoWars DID actually report new news which others failed to report on.
InfoWars did have some original and first hand content, and was willing to put ideas out there that were contentious (may you agree or disagree).
Peoples feelings on a given position should not matter. If that were the case, then Micheal Moore should have been shut down years ago, so should Jane Fonda and many others that said and even did FAR worse.
“did have some whacky ideas at times...”
Ha, that doesn’t hardly say it.
While I personally find him entertaining I take most of what he says with a grain of salt.....this guy is a tin foil hatter if there ever was one and makes Art Bell look like a piker! Lol!
Whil
This is more lawfare.
A direct attack on free speech.
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And there was no way that the plaintiffs suffered the damages that were awarded just for hurt feelings.
No, it's not. It's defamation on the part of Alex Jones. Even though he's broke ground on many subjects, I would sue the crap out of him. He was an idiot for defaming those families. I find it hard to believe a person as intelligent as he is would do something so stupid. In doing so, he made all of us look stupid.
Alex did it to himself
I'm old, and the decline in our state of affairs has been so drastic, and conservatives' response so anemic, they're going to win. Ultimately.
When my generation, the Baby Boomers, have all passed, there will be no one who remembers what a free, law abiding and safe America was like.
They pinned him down with patently unfair trials.
I see him as a detestable Deep State asset, but often a source of good information (which is how such things work).