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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:29PM (#42391027)
> It wasn't $1 bn USD worth of damages done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages is very much a normal thing.

> He has been charged the equivalent of the GDP of Samoa

He probably did more human damage than all of Samoa's citizens combined.

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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion by lewdev on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:00PM (#42392163)
He lead a mob of his audience to threaten families that just had a child in their family murdered based on lies. There's no price on how horrible that is. Argue all you want, it went through a long process to get to that number so good luck with that.
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