Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinformation’

Re:Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinforma... by caeril on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:17PM (#33206332)

> The whole situation with Alex Jones has undermined the confidence I have with our court system

If it makes you feel any better, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family was fined SIX TIMES more than Alex Jones. 800k people dead for $6B versus a dozen families' feelings hurt for $1B.

Our court system recognizes that the value of a human life is $7.5K, but the value of precious feelings is $83MM.

This seems pretty fair to me.

The good news is that punitive damages haven't been awarded yet. Hoping that the cost for hurt feelings rises north of $100M. Looking forward to suing everyone who said false statements about me in public. It's going to be an incredible payday, and I can parlay the winnings into running a drug operation and killing rural Americans (fuck flyover country, amirite?) with opioids and only pay a rounding error for everyone I murder.

Can't wait.

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Re:Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinforma... by CodeSgt on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:24PM (#33209978)

I agree with you and upvoted you, but your choice of language was a bit strong and bordered on inflammatory. That could explain the downvotes I think.

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Re:Turkey adopts media law jailing for spreading ‘disinforma... by Izkata on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:46PM (#33216927)

I suspect your post is sarcasm, but you didn't include any markers and I've seen this argument in earnest enough times that I can't just assume it is sarcasm.

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