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The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by tightbookkeeper »

sofixa wrote: post #312
tightbookkeeper wrote: post #280

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Don’t forget their many other successful lawsuits: - school administration - rifle manufacturer - the shooters mother (home insurance) - other journalists who wrote about the event I don’t know exactly what compensation they should get, but this does not seem like a healthy or sustainable way for our society to deal with tragedy.

> I don’t know exactly what compensation they should get, but this does not seem like a healthy or sustainable way for our society to deal with tragedy. I don't know if it's healthy or sustainable, but it definitely sounds healthier than ignoring the tragedy altogether.

No. I actually don’t think lashing out at any wallet that happens to be in the area will make anyone happy.

The people who are responsible are dead.

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Post by snowwrestler »

drawkward wrote: post #347
lowbloodsugar wrote: post #337

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Flagging you from the left here. Harris outperformed Biden among only two demo groups[1]: -College educated whites -People with income > $100,000 Please, consider the possibility, that the Dems are now the party of wealthy elites, and that the diverse coalition making is happening on the R side of the aisle. [1] Edit for sourcing: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/obama-ezra-klein-...

The data is not yet available to draw conclusions about turnout or vote share. Votes are actually still being counted in some jurisdictions.

Re: The Onion buys Infowars

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Post by sjsdaiuasgdia »

wordofx wrote: post #495
sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #432

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Since Musk's acquisition of Twitter, it has increasingly become a right wing echo chamber and place to promote conspiracy theories. And Alex Jones' InfoWars and Elon Musk's Twitter are both likely to show you advertisements for supplements of dubious effectiveness and other generally scammy products. So yeah, Jones fits right in there.

It really hasn’t.

My experience disagrees with yours, I suppose.

To me, as a casual user of the platform, that has been the trend. I've been visiting less because of it.

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Post by jowea »

seanw444 wrote: post #284
chairmansteve wrote: post #193

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Call it Twitter. Everyone knows what you mean, and it annoys Elon.

I'm not even your average Elon hater, and I still think X is a stupid name. Dude should've just kept the name and brand that everyone knows already.

Elon just likes X. I feel he bought the entire site in part due to ego. And it was part of the "everything app" branding too IIRC.

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Post by philistine »

petercooper wrote: post #99

I'm watching his stream just to see how the drama goes down and a silly tech-adjacent bit popped up when he started ranting about Linux and how if "they" were trying to take Linus Torvalds down, they still couldn't ever own Linux!

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.

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Post by DirkH »

kobalsky wrote: post #256
dmvdoug wrote: post #91

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The Onion is truly a national treasure.

they are fueled by clickbait, and they've promoted the practice. it's probably the first site I've manually added to my dns blacklist.

I find this comment so funny I burst out laughing. I cannot tell whether you're serious.

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Post by gonzo »

rs999gti wrote: post #509
qingcharles wrote: post #492

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Lawfare? This is literally how defamation works. If someone said on the Internet said that rs999gti was a "tax-evading, pyramid-scheming, mullet-wearing, karaoke-ruining, ferret-hoarding, snake-oil-selling, cereal-with-water-eating, grammar-mangling, table-manner-less, engagement-ring-pawning, salad-dodging, traffic-cone-stealing, apology-dodger," and it wasn’t true, I think you’d probably like to sue them and take t…

> Lawfare? Yes the court's judgment is so high, 1B USD, that he cannot make money without it being garnished. How does he get back to work? I personally do not think anyone should lose their livelihood over speech, NOTE: I did not say free speech. What he did is reprehensible but not enough that he is basically black balled from making a living. Penalties yes, loss of livelihood no.

Alex is free to work at the local car wash.

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Post by lenerdenator »

moate wrote: post #305
3D30497420 wrote: post #149

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IANAL, but I'd also imagine there's a difference between clear satire and something being presented as the truth. Additionally, The Onion generally goes after public figures while Infowars, in this case, was targeting private individuals. Not sure how either of these have bearing in the legal sense, but could be important factors. Of course, in a politicized legal context, these points may not matter since legal acti…

>>I'd also imagine there's a difference between clear satire and something being presented as the truth. There is, and the 1st amendment's coverage of Parody/Satire is very well documented. The Onion has always made it clear that it's fake news, Infowars fought tooth and nail to say they're allowed to say their "truth" even if it's harmful lies. When you can prove that someone believes the damaging bullshit they're s…

A lot of jurisdictions have anti-SLAPP lawsuits, but not all. I think Logan Paul is trying to sue YouTuber Coffeezilla in a district that doesn't have anti-SLAPP protections with the express intent of bankrupting him.
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