Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is seeking to protect his personal social media accounts from being sold in the upcoming auction of his Infowars media platform to pay more than $1 billion he owes relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, claiming selling those accounts would violate his privacy and deny him a chance to make a fresh start after bankruptcy.
The trustee overseeing the liquidation and selloff of the assets of Infowars and its parent company Free Speech Systems, asked a federal judge on Friday to include the social media accounts as part of the auctions scheduled for November and December. The judge delayed a decision on the matter for at least a week.
Jones’ lawyers argue the personal media accounts that use his real name are not owned by Infowars or FSS, but are controlled by him personally, and should be considered part of his “persona” that cannot be owned by someone other than himself.
What’s stopping him from just making infowars2?
His rage is his commodity, so I don’t get why he can’t just start up a new channel and just do the exact same thing.
The law, basically. Taking his assets elsewhere to “hide” them from his creditors constitutes fraud.
He even tried to already, but that was shot down by the judge, who made him swear under oath to not try that again. Which he already IS doing, very blatantly.
They also seized his bank accounts and production equipment.
That said, I wouldn’t exactly be shocked if his sycophantic fans got together and built him a studio and gave him a salary.
Or a new patreon account and he would be rolling in money again. But I sure hope he keeps trying because until his debt is settled they are gonna keep taking from him.
I doubt all his equip etc. will be enough to cover the 1 billion. So any and all patreon income could be confiscated as well.
That’s what I meant by I hope he keeps trying so it can be taken as well.
Yeah, no idea how I didn’t read that part 😅🤦
Unfortunately that’s not a far fetched possibility.
He would still be in arrears for this judgement , as the seizures and auctions won’t actually cover all of the award. So, Infowars 2 would just be taken as well.