If someone said on the Internet said that rs999gti was a "tax-evading, pyramid-scheming, mullet-wearing, karaoke-ruining, ferret-hoarding, snake-oil-selling, cereal-with-water-eating, grammar-mangling, table-manner-less, engagement-ring-pawning, salad-dodging, traffic-cone-stealing, apology-dodger," and it wasn’t true, I think you’d probably like to sue them and take their money too.

Yes the court's judgment is so high, 1B USD, that he cannot make money without it being garnished. How does he get back to work? I personally do not think anyone should lose their livelihood over speech, NOTE: I did not say free speech. What he did is reprehensible but not enough that he is basically black balled from making a living. Penalties yes, loss of livelihood no.

"The garnishment amount is limited to 25% of your disposable earnings for that week (what's left after mandatory deductions) or the amount by which your disposable earnings for that week exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage, whichever is less."

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/if-wages-are-garnish...

He was harassing parents of dead children in order to personally enrich himself. Why do you think he shouldn't have to forgo his ill begotten gains? It's only 1B USD, because he refused to stop doing it. And then he decided not to really show up for court and accept the summary judgement of 1B USD.

Most of his penalty has nothing to do with speech. He can keep on speaking all he wants. He might suffer consequences, but he is free to say whatever he wants to.

Alex Jones wasn't even subtle about it. He was getting judgements telling him to stop spouting blatant lies about victims of a mass shooting and he just doubled down on the lies. Repeatedly. The courts kept giving him more rope and he kept tying more nooses.

How is censorship?

I don't think defamation law is unconstitutional, but, no it doesn't.

How does he make future money, you know for living?

The judgement basically means the courts get to garnish his wages until the judgement is paid.

Jones is a goof to me and I like seeing him rant and rave and wear foil hats. But I don't think anyone should have their livelihood taken from them by censorship of the courts. EDIT: remember all judgments and penalties cut both ways. Today Jones tomorrow someone you follow in the media.

Lower the judgement to 1M USD (EDIT: or something reasonable) and let's move on.

Anyone who knowingly spreads lies about a person and causes them harm should face legal consequences.

He can go get all sorts of jobs. Yeah his wages will be garnished, but that doesn't mean his whole paycheck - just the lesser of 25% of the paycheck or 30x minimum wage. He can make money and a living with that just fine. Same as I'd expect for anyone intentionally lying and hurting people for money - whether I "follow" them or not.

Perhaps you should find some reputable sources for information, instead of relying on the proven liar to tell the truth about his situation?

Did you read my post? Jones is a source of entertainment for me.

Unlike most of the people who replied, I don't like cancel culture.

You dont like cancel culture, but support Jones - a person who is literally being discussed for encouraging his followers to shut down the people saying their kids were killed.

I mean the statements about crisis actors and whatnot were maliciously false, and pure slander. But to those who beleived them, Jones was advocating for them to be cancelled - that is they should be stopped from spreading lies and that they should be locked up and sent away.

Odd juxtaposition.

Christ. As a non-American, this comment says a lot about the hilariously broken state of your political landscape.

“It could happen to one of your guys, and that somehow makes it bad!”

Anyone that does what Alex did deserves his punishment, and I’d be against anyone that did what he did, even if I previously “followed” them.