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Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75T from Alex Jones

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Re: Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75T from Alex Jones

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If so, that's quite stupid. That's more money that the richest person in the world has, and it's incommensurate with the impact of Jones's behavior. It serves nobody- not even the families whose children were killed.

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Right: nobody, not even billionaires, can afford to do this ever again. Seems like a win condition to me.

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Should the amount of wealth someone can hoard be essentially unbounded, allowing them to become impervious to any civil consequences for their actions?

Re: Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75T from Alex Jones

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One can seek $X dollars, but collecting is another story. He'll probably declare bankruptcy at some point, if he hasn't already.

He already declared bankruptcy, they said during the trial — their goal is that he never can work again

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Should the amount of wealth someone can hoard be essentially unbounded, allowing them to become impervious to any civil consequences for their actions?

That has nothing to do with the ridiculous argument made above.

Re: Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75T from Alex Jones

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If so, that's quite stupid. That's more money that the richest person in the world has, and it's incommensurate with the impact of Jones's behavior. It serves nobody- not even the families whose children were killed.

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It's been crazy to watch how fast these flags are coming lol

IMO the more crazy the amount the more likely this gets overturned. It's probably counter-productive to the plantiffs stated objective to ask for trillions lol. Regardless, Jones or the businesses don't have to pay until all the appeals are done. So increasing the odds of appeal helps no one.

Fun Fact, 2.75T is approximately the GDP of France.

Re: Sandy Hook Families Seek $2.75T from Alex Jones

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> They reached the sum by multiplying the state law’s $5,000 per-violation fine by the 550 million social media exposures Jones’s audience received on his Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts in the three years following a school shooting that claimed the lives of 20 first graders and six educators in 2012. Is this defamation calculation valid? Is the calculation based on the number of people who listen or read? If…

I would assume the per violation has nothing to do with his many people witnessed it.
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