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Ruin his life. Destroy everything he has. Make him reap what he sowed.
Justice boner
Hmm...
Yeah...
Get fucked.
I'm sending thoughts and prayers for his utter fucking destruction
They argue that trustee Christopher Murray does not have a right to the social media accounts as property that can be sold, and warned that a purchaser could face lawsuits as to whether they were rightfully obtained.
I'd like to buy it and start posting LGBTQ-positive content. I'm not part of the coalition. I just think it'd be fun to watch people react.
Jones is appealing the civil jury verdicts, citing free speech rights and questioning whether the families proved any connection between his comments and the people who harassed and threatened the relatives. He has since acknowledged that the shooting did happen.
Yeah, Margie TG just happened to follow a kid shouting at him for being part of a coverup and recording it on her phone be coincidence. It's not because she gets her talking points from this asshole.
I want john oliver to buy all of his stuff and run his own show with it that would be so funny
So fuck Alex Jones, but I really don't think it's a good idea to force people to sell their accounts so that other people can impersonate them. It's just inviting social engineering attacks.
Except in this case, much like with Trump, His business and his person were deeply intertwined. So the account is a business asset. And as such, it is subject to being an asset of the company. Maybe he should have separated them at some point.
Yes but you can just tell everyone the attacks never happened, for attention
Isn't it against the tos to sell your account?
If the Wendys burger chain was sold, there would be no problem with the new owner taking the Wendys social media accounts. In this case Jones has long used his social media accounts as part of his business. They're part of the Infowars assets so they can and should be handed over to debtors to settle the claims against Infowars.
Law trumps TOS so it really doesn't matter what it says.
But is there any precedent in selling accounts due to a court decision? Does the social media company get to close the account due to the TOS violation?
In any case, if it does get sold, it'll create an interesting situation.
What's stopping him from just making infowars2?
His rage is his commodity, so I don't get why he can't just start up a new channel and just do the exact same thing.
They also seized his bank accounts and production equipment.
That said, I wouldn't exactly be shocked if his sycophantic fans got together and built him a studio and gave him a salary.
Or a new patreon account and he would be rolling in money again. But I sure hope he keeps trying because until his debt is settled they are gonna keep taking from him.
I doubt all his equip etc. will be enough to cover the 1 billion. So any and all patreon income could be confiscated as well.
That's what I meant by I hope he keeps trying so it can be taken as well.
Unfortunately that’s not a far fetched possibility.
What's stopping him from just making infowars2?
The law, basically. Taking his assets elsewhere to "hide" them from his creditors constitutes fraud.
He even tried to already, but that was shot down by the judge, who made him swear under oath to not try that again. Which he already IS doing, very blatantly.
That's not what they're suggesting, I'm pretty sure. They're saying, after selling all the stuff, just start up a new company with the same schtick. Alex Jones is free to still be Alex Jones. And that's all Info Wars really is/was.
With what money? He owes much more than the combined worth of his personal and business assets. Any significantly similar new company he would found would be under water in debt from the start.
He's banking on a far right billionaire or organization buying Infowars and keeping him on as an employee, because that's the only way he can keep doing it.
🤷 That's a different question.
And he's actually been trying again recently as the auction gets closer. But people aren't really following him to his new Twitter account
He would still be in arrears for this judgement , as the seizures and auctions won’t actually cover all of the award. So, Infowars 2 would just be taken as well.
We should all pitch in some cash to buy them and use them to start posting pro-Fediverse, pro-FOSS and privacy-related stuff.
Yeah, it might bring in some crazies, but the Fediverse can handle that better than most places.
[email protected] users would be a sight to behold
Their interactions with .grad would be priceless. lol Not that they wouldn't instantly defed each other.
𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙚.
Don't commit war crimes. Instead, be the reason they became crimes!
It would be nice if some nonprofit got them and rebranded to "DisinfoWars" to post critical thinking resources and deconstruct disinformation
I really like this idea. Transform what he built into a force for good.
Fuck this guy.
But his personal social media account? What the fuck is that
The issue he's gone and pulled to Donald Trump or Elon Musk. He's decided that he will use his personal accounts to announce things to do with his "company". This has become a big problem because people have got to the point where they follow his personal accounts to find out what his company is doing because his company accounts don't post too much.
So he's done this to himself. He's made his personal persona inexorably interlinked with his business persona. At the time I'm sure he thought this was a great idea since both personas are utter dipshits.
It'd be pretty fun if some org with opposite political leanings bought the account.
I'm hoping that the important assets get sold to the Knowledge Fight podcast. They'd be the ones able to do the most good with them.
What's the worst that can happen? Someone buys it and starts hawking boner pills? Yeah, that ain't exactly gonna ruin his good name.
Think bigger, someone gets the accounts and releases all of his private messages. If he doesn't delete them. I'm on the fence about the precident this would set.
Deleting them could be seen as intentionally diminishing the value of the asset before auction and get him in more trouble.
Everyone is missing the best part of the article:
and his video game “Alex Jones NWO Wars” released in 2023, that features Jones as the hero in a shooting game.
Cry some more crocodile tears ya no-neck freak.
Even his only fans?