Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims

Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by Pxtl on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:05PM (#33183176)

To the free speech purists in this thread, I have a hypothetical I'm curious about:

What if it happened to you? Let's imagine that a media source with millions of viewers - like a local news channel, for example, or a radio show, went live with a story that had specific and false allegations that you did something odious. Like they said you were a cannibal or a pedophile or something like that. And as a result, you were faced with a campaign of harassment and threats by fans of this source. If people googled your name, "Cannibal" was the top hit.

And they made millions of dollars from these allegations.

What would your recourse be?

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by swordfish69 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:15PM (#33183376)

What if you performed simple public records requests and realized that this whole event stinks to high heaven and that it was immediately politicized by politicians and billionaire media elites to suppress the rights of American citizens?

There always has to be room to question events that dominate the news cycle.

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by nobody9999 on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:35PM (#33183727)

>What if you performed simple public records requests and realized that this whole event stinks to high heaven and that it was immediately politicized by politicians and billionaire media elites to suppress the rights of American citizens?

Are you claiming to have done so? If that's the case, what were the results of your "public records requests"?

What rights have been suppressed? Please do tell.

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by ncallaway on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:40PM (#33184661)

Please be specific what public records requests you've done, and how they demonstrated that this whole event stinks to high heaven.

What records have you reviewed?

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by xupybd on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:51PM (#33184000)

I consider myself a free speech purist. I also think defamation and libel laws are required.

I think this is the system working as it should.

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