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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:31PM (#33183648)
> but what Alex Jones did was not just "the wrong words", it was blatant slander that permanently ruined the lives of these people.

How did it do that?

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by jjulius on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:38PM (#33183792)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183758
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:41PM (#33183853)
By this standard, a really large number of people have had their lives "permanently ruined" by all kinds of different things.
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by jjulius on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:46PM (#33183933)
... and?
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by thaumasiotes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:49PM (#33183971)
And that is in fact not the case.
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by jjulius on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:53PM (#33184029)
What's your point here?
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by incahoots on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @05:43PM (#33183872)
from what I recall he doxxed a few of the families and invoked a call to arms to his listeners to harass, stalk, and threaten said families.

It's not as if he drove by the homes of these people and yelled expletives.

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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by DoItToMe81 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:37AM (#33187296)
Do you have a source? I've both never heard this, or seen the clips. And I know a lot of people who HATE Jones and his fanbase, so I can't believe it would slip by them.
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Re:Alex Jones to pay $965M to Sandy Hook victims by bradford on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:31PM (#33184561)
Might I recommend the book "Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth" by Elizabeth Williamson.

It goes into great detail the impact that Jones' slander had on the Sandy Hook families.

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