Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.

  • mtdyson_01English
    2•1 year ago

    I guess the question is, how much money did Jones and his company make from said defamation. Personally I think if a company profits illegally then the fine should be at a minimum a close estimation of what they profited.

    • @cricket97
      -2•1 year ago

      Sure, totally fine, that would be pretty typical. But we all know it was not 1b dollars.

      • mtdyson_01English
        4•1 year ago

        Maybe the death threats from his fans and having to go into hiding because of his rhetoric bumped up price. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        I’m sure there were many parents in the jury that have had enough of the bullshit.

        • @cricket97
          1•1 year ago

          Death threats are illegal, but Alex Jones did not make the death threats. Does he share some responsibility? probably. But he was not the one making death threats and did not instruct his followers to make them. That changes it from “intent” to just being irresponsible.

          • arglebargleEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Surely you followed the trials, since you have an opinion. Jones had so many opportunities to make that case, and didn’t. Stalling, lying, and fighting with the courts did not work out well for him. Calling the judge names outside of court and denying everything also did not work for him.

            Reviewing the income statements and the effects it had on everyone’s lives, the jurors came up with a number that was the sum. In two different cases as well.

            It is not as cut and dry as “he shouldn’t be punished, and this was too much”

              • @awneryEnglish
                1•11 months ago

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              • arglebargleEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                I mean he’s a kinda retarded libertarian who distrusts the government in its entirety.

                No, he is not. He is a grifter, that exploits peoples fears for money. He also happens to have a decent amount of hate coupled with a stunted maturity, which makes for finding an easy audience to grift.

                I heal what you are saying, but there is no retaliation, no punishment. This is a civil matter, he choose to get himself into this mess by not even trying to get out of it, and now this is the restitution that his peers have found him liable for.

                Cruel and unusual is what he did by lying about people to create the fear solely for profit. There is no libertarian angle, no news story. It is simply he is willing to hurt others for money.

                • @awneryEnglish
                  2•11 months ago

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                • @cricket97
                  1•1 year ago

                  Civil courts are not meant to use their ability to charge damages as a form of lifelong punishment.

      • mtdyson_01English
        2•1 year ago

        Conservative estimates put his companies earnings at 300 million a year. So ya I’d say it was pretty close since he went on about it for quite awhile. Also don’t forget that during the lawsuit he hid money, lied in court, hid evidence and even refused to show up to court. I think his punishment is more than fitting. This guy knowingly lied about families who were devastated to make money, affecting those families lives to the point that they had to move and go into hiding. Fuck Alex Jones, he’s a shit human being and I hope he spends the rest of his life mopping restrooms in a truck stop somewhere.

        • @cricket97
          1•1 year ago

          I find it very hard to believe he was earning 300m a year in profit. I would like a source on that.

          Civil courts are not in the business of handing out punishments btw. Once again proving my point that you hate the guy so much that you overlook the abuse of the civil court system to put him in debt for life through a completely irrationally outsized amount of damages.

            • @cricket97
              1•1 year ago

              if you read the article, they are extrapolating a single day over a year, despite it being said that the day was “the best day of sales”. So no, they are not making 300m a year. It’s extremely misleading to claim that he was earning 300m a year in profit from that one statement.

              • mtdyson_01English
                1•1 year ago

                If you read the article Alex Jones claimed it was the best day of sales. It is extremely misleading to claim also that one day of sales is the only information that would be used to determine how much money a company makes. The email was used to contradict the claims that Infowars and his other companies are barely getting by and that’s why he had to file bankruptcy.

                Alex Jones started hiding money, refused to provide company documents to the courts and skipped trials. If his account of his finances is closer to the truth then why did he not provide that evidence. Hey, if you just want to take the word of a proven liar that your prerogative and if Alex Jones wanted to prove that his companies only make what he says that they make them he could have easily provided that evidence. Better yet even if his companies only make twenty million a year maybe he should have realized a lot sooner to shut his mouth when he realized his words were ruining people’s lives and potentially putting them in danger because his followers were confronting these poor people. Instead of stopping when Alex realized this he threw more gas on the fire. Of course this is only one instance of this happening, there are many examples of his lies causing harm because his followers believe him.

                • @cricket97
                  -1•1 year ago

                  You are deflecting from what I am criticizing you for. You said 300m a year was a “conservative” estimate when in reality it’s an extremely optimistic (and wrongly based off of a single day extrapolated) estimate. Just admit it was misleading and we can move on.

                  • mtdyson_01English
                    1•1 year ago

                    You have 0 proof that it is conservative, you are basing that on the word of a proven liar. That figure in particular could easily be an average day figure or a slow day.

                    I’m not sure what I’m deflecting because all of your proof is taken from the word of a proven liar and fraud. Just admit you’re a troll and we can move on

      • mtdyson_01English
        1•1 year ago

        It was not just one lawsuit, I believe that may be the combined total of all the lawsuits to date. Rest assured though the judge said his fake bankruptcy may cover the 324 million in lawyers fees.