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The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/ Alex Jones response: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1857058831135645739
Wonderful news. I'm glad their CEO recognizes the great value of CEOs. My only worry is that this acquisition makes Global Tetraeder so large that it attracts the attention of those pesky EU bureaucrats, who will want to split it up into multiple imperfect solids.
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> supplements of a dubious nature They are re-labled existing products that are sold in other places, and unironically already-recognized, before being re-labled by InfoWars, as very high quality. If you're gonna criticize InfoWars you have my 100% support in your right to do so, but try not to post out of your ass. This is HackerNews, not Reddit.
Can you give an example of these high-quality supplements? Otherwise folks just have to take you at your word that they exist.
The NPR article conveys that this was more than just a very clever stunt > "The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion's bid, enabling its success," according to their lawyers. ... Jones was hoping a bidder ideologically aligned with him would have bought Infowars and hired him back to keep doing his show. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/14/nx-s1-518939…
The "Global Tetrahedron" site already has an Infowars Web 1.0 slant, the Everytown for Gun Safety ads are great. https://global-tetrahedron.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20000229143934/http://www.infowa...
What really should have happened in this case, like the the Parkland killer, was for the people who sued to also take his Name and Likeness. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/families-settle-court-b... This would hopefully avoid letting him just rebuild another slime empire.
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And I believe he is wrong in this case. Linus is absolutely a lynchpin for Linux control. He can be replaced, but whoever replaces him then becomes that lynchpin. He's the benevolent dictator for life after all.
You're assuming that would be one person and one organization, the way it is now. I think that's the most likely outcome, but it isn't a safe bet by any means. In any case I hope it's a good long time before we have to find out, since I wish Linus long life and good health.
I don't expect the structure to change. I guess we'll see.
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Well they asked for money, not "fixing the issue", which is not enforceable anyway without violating the 1st so that's not even a power the court has. Alex Jones will still be able to speak and profit from it, just not under the Infowars brand.
Lawyers file cases they can win to establish legal precedent. The 1st amendment doesn't protect all forms of speech. Shouting Fire in a theater, sedition, inciting mobs, entrapment, accessory to a crime (by encouraging someone to do it). None of these are covered in the 1st Amendment.
That's actually very rare. Most cases get settled out of court and most court case don't make it to appeal; thus no legal precedent.
> Shouting Fire in a theater
This is a common misconception. This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court.
> sedition, inciting mobs, entrapment, accessory to a crime (by encouraging someone to do it). None of these are covered in the 1st Amendment.
None of which are what Jones was sued for.
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Jones is not worth $1B. He's barely worth a million with the lawsuits and legal costs; thus the bankruptcy. He offered them about $100M over 20 years or something like that but the SH families lawyers refused. I've watched the trial, the SH lawyers are not loyal to the victims and families.
Right, the intention of the suit was to personally harm Jones as retribution for the immeasurable harm he has caused them. They don't need money, I'm sure they have enough. They denied his money because that isn't the point - they want to mock him. And, I fully support them. They're in a unique position and frankly I'm very impressed at their restraint in choosing the legal system over violence. If I were Jones, I wo…
> They don't need money,
These are normal people, what are you talking about?
> I'm very impressed at their restraint in choosing the legal system over violence.
That's not impressive, that's what the vast majority of people do.
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> Did the original offer include shutting down Infowars? That was part of the SH families' lawyer final argument to the jury. > There is more to this life than money. Sure. But there's not much a civil lawsuit can ask outside of damages and reparations.
And yet seeing the case through to the end instead of taking the first offer has seen Infowars taken from Alex Jones. I don't speak for the families, but if I were in their shoes that would be far more valuable to me than maximizing my payout.
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Imagine there are humans who read those headlines and think to themselves that it is real.
Worse yet, imagine that those humans are armed, and many of them routinely fantasize about what they do when "it's time". My local gun store has sported an InfoWars sticker for many years now.
I don't think those people actually exist. I've never seen an actual person who wasn't satirizing or parodying an image of this person.
Maybe "performance satire"?