>>No one is stopping him from doing so.
>That ... may remain to be seen. Though it does seem to presently be the case.
What legal mechanism might someone use to stop Alex Jones from saying whatever the hell he wants?
I mean, sure, a bullet to the brain or a successful car bomb would shut him up, but that's murder.
IIUC (IANAL), Alex Jones can, while in the United States (with certain very limited exceptions), say whatever he feels like saying.
If he defames someone (in the case we're discussing here, the families of children killed in Newtown, CT in 2012), they are also free (as they did) to sue him for such defamation.
What, exactly, do you see changing with respect to the current status quo? What legal basis would you base such changes on?
In preparing this reply, I noted this comment[0] of yours which reads, in part:
I'm not sure this covers all cases of consequential burdening, but
it does seem to cover many of them. A future prohibition on speech,
gag order, banning from online or broadcast services, etc., might
be a harder case to make, though these could still be seen as
sanctions on behaviour rather than content.
I am unclear as to how any of that could happen under US
civil law. There certainly are examples of such orders in
criminal cases, but very different rules/laws/regimes apply between the two.
Unless Jones is criminally charged, I don't see how any of that could happen in a civil legal proceeding in the US.
Are you taking the idea that "speech has consequences" to its logical extreme and hypothesizing that private actors may curtail Jones' access to media?
I'd say that doesn't stop him from pontificating about anything on a bar stool (unless the bar owners don't like it and throw him out) or on his own private property.
Or are you hypothesizing that laws will change and his defamation activity will be criminalized?
If I misunderstand your point (always a possibility), my apologies. I'd just like to understand the mechanism(s) you're alluding to that could result in someone "stopping him from doing so[1]".
N.B.: I'll say it again: IANAL. Also, I find Jones' behavior reprehensible and hope he ends up destitute and living in a cardboard box under a highway overpass.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185391
[1] "doing so" is, of course, referring to him spewing the slanderous bile he's been vomiting up for a decade.