Alex Jones ordered to pay $45.2M to parents of Sandy Hook victim

They should be.

 

Those should be more liable IMHO
What I see on this thread is lots of virtue signaling-people wanting to pat themselves on the back for engaging in feigned hatred towards a guy who is essentially a fading shock jock who was trying to keep his waning limelight lit

 

Anyone who threatened the family should be prosecuted. Not sure if any of them are in custody.

Jones made millions off the suffering of parents and children involved in a school shooting and got nailed to the wall like he deserves. Justice served.

 

They are liable in a criminal court. If they are found and arrested some of them will do time, the shooter definitely. The jerk in question was not in a criminal court but a financial one. The judge can't send him to jail, just make him pay.

 

The trial had so many errors that an appeal is certain.

 

Social justice served. This kangaroo court was only ever going to go one way and that was why they had to strip Jones of his right to trial by jury. The Supreme Court will hopefully nuke this one from orbit.

Here is the judge in his trial. Does any rational person believe this dysgenic troglodyte could ever be a neutral and dispassionate arbiter of truth?

 

In Texas, a Red State, you have got to be kidding.

All the legal formalities were followed, to the T.

 

Alex Jones could have given up their names, but he didn't. His defense team could have queried who they were, but they didn't. And if someone did find them, they would probably face both criminal and possible civil litigation. For for civil, you couldn't get money out of them because they don't have any. So what's the point.

 

So, it appears she is exercising her first amendment rights in social media apparently BEFORE she was a judge. And this proves, what?

 

I kind of think that a guy making claims about an appeal who hasn't the foggiest idea what's even the basis of the appeal is the "true believer".

So, what's being appealed?

 

You don't have any idea what you're claiming. You shouldn't "own it"; you should inform yourself.

 

lol Welcome to the discussion. Where am I uninformed?

 

A jury was present and determined Jones defamed the plaintiffs. Why would SCOTUS have any say in a tort claim?

 

Well, by the winning side and the court anyway.

 

This is not a first amendment Constitutional issue. You are dealing with people who really don't know the difference between a civil suit and a criminal conviction, among other things. They are just throwing dung at the wall to see what sticks. Unfortunately for them, none of it is sticking.

 

Time will show how biased a lawyer you are.

 

More than you will ever understand. Not that you cannot understand, but that you do not want to understand. Cognitive dissonance in play....

 

But NOT a crime if not accusing individuals, right?

Can you cite an example of Jones 'directing at individuals' in this case?

 

So Charles Manson was innocent?

 

Of what?

 

Manson never killed anyone.

He incited people to do it.

So according to you, Jones can't be held responsible for the hateful things he says on air.

 

What does a culture/country do when truthful statements are interpreted by so many as being "hateful"? When facts show that their government is lying through its teeth 24/7?

 

Manson wasn't charged or convicted of incitement and neither was Jones. Manson was charged and convicted of murder, having been proven he was responsible for coercing others to commit murder. Jones was found guilty of defamation, not harassment. So your analogy is flawed.

Jones never attacked the parents of Sandy Hook victims. He is inferred to have done so simply by calling the shooting a hoax which ostencibly suggests the parents might have been involved in the hoax.

Do you think it should similarly be a crime to call 9/11 a hoax or an inside job if it infers the victims families might be involved?

 

The jury considered the catastrophic effects of Jones' hateful comments to the victims' families, including the fact that some of his listeners made death threats.

 

Sorry but I feel obligated to correct. Not hateful "things" rather hateful lies and slander.