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At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by thrance »

tclancy wrote: post #135
thrance wrote: post #53

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There are some folks really upset about us not platforming a maniac. If you feel like stopping Alex Jones from being actively harmful is a slippery slope directly to something you might say, boy, I would want to take a minute and think that through.

Don't read too much into it, it's just a joke, I'm very happy with Jones losing his platform. I thought I could add to the Onion's satire with a bit of my own, but forgot how hard it is sometimes to tell apart humor from Fox News-induced mental illness. Sorry about that.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by quesera »

busterarm wrote: post #147
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #87

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Bear in mind buying it to ruin it is a very real public service. Alex Jones was hoping a conservative ally would buy it and then just continue to let him do what he wants. Jokes aside, The Onion is basically spending a giant pile of money to burn the website down.

I remember when The KLF burned a million quid. They were being internally consistent. It was artistically relevant. Most people thought they were insane. Bill Drummond wrote about how it strained his relationship with his kids. You can tell that he regrets it. Personally I think a million bucks to lease a domain name for a year is a really terrible business decision. You might be able to argue that it's going to vict…

If benefitting the victims is a goal, then clearly sending them money now is more valuable than sending them interest-borne money later.

If the victims don't benefit from the money now, they can bear their own interest. Time-value, etc.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by [deleted] »

kstrauser wrote: post #70
pityJuke wrote: post #59

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I’m surprised they’ve said it so confidently given how it completely collapsed last time…

I think it's a good PR move. "Hey, look at how reasonable we've been in spite of the legal craziness. We've put money on the table and are moving forward with a plan that benefits everyone." Now anyone who blocks the plan will be seen as the problem.

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Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by traderj0e »

htx80nerd wrote: post #101
wat10000 wrote: post #67

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The amount of the judgment seems reasonable for years of harassment against a bunch of people, all done for a profit, plus a bunch of egregious misbehavior in court.

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He didn't just talk about it, he claimed it. "Yeah, so, Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured" - Alex Jones

Edit: Someone else posted a doc with a bunch of quotes on this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839299

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Post by fasterik »

adzm wrote: post #8
burkaman wrote: post #3

This is not final and still has to be approved by a judge ( https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo... )

> Tim Heidecker, one of the comedians behind “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, has been hired to serve as “creative director of Infowars.” He said he initially plans to parody Mr. Jones’s “whole modus operandi.” > Mr. Heidecker has been working on his impression of Mr. Jones. But eventually, when that joke gets old, Mr. Heidecker said that he hoped to turn Infowars into a destin…

My favorite recent thing from Tim Heidecker was him interviewing Fred Armisen in the style of Bill Maher. The parody is uncanny. I could see him doing a really good Alex Jones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by scottyah »

pogue wrote: post #9

Seems like it's still not theirs until a judge signs off on it. That sale was scuttled by a bankruptcy court. Now, The Onion has re-emerged with a new plan: licensing the website from Gregory Milligan, the court-appointed manager of the site. On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’s Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in…

Misinformation is funny now! This is all part of the joke- they were a funny fake news site that bought an unfunny fake news site, now their fake news doesn't need to be funny and that's what makes it funny.

Maybe you're not highbrow enough for this...

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by wat10000 »

Shog9 wrote: post #143
mothballed wrote: post #103

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Alex Jones did not, as far as the evidence we have seen, harass the parents. Alex Jones did not direct anyone to harass the parents. Some of his viewers used Jones' statements as justification for harassments. Interestingly, as far as I know, nothing was pursued against the people harassing the parents. They went after the rich guy saying lies they didn't like, then depended on the fact no one besides the defense wan…

The defense - including Jones himself - also did a very poor job, so it's debatable whether anyone at all wanted a different outcome.

That's understating things rather substantially. He ignored court orders. He continued to defame the plaintiffs during the trial, including a statement on air that one of the plaintiff's death by suicide was actually a murder and part of the conspiracy.

If you were sued and your objective was to lose as badly as possible and get as harsh a judgment as possible, it would look a lot like what Jones did here.

Re: At long last, InfoWars is ours

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Post by wat10000 »

traderj0e wrote: post #164
htx80nerd wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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He didn't just talk about it, he claimed it. "Yeah, so, Sandy Hook is a synthetic completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured" - Alex Jones Edit: Someone else posted a doc with a bunch of quotes on this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839299

Some more here: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alex_Jones
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