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Previously, they were trying to buy the assets outright. That got into the "one group of families is owned $1.4 billion and another is owned $50 million" and the "how do you maximize the returns from Alex Jones assets to satisfy those claims?"

This is using a different structure.

> On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’s Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months.

They're not buying it - they're licensing it from the victims families instead.

I'm surprised you're surprised.

I love it.

The prosecution even told them that they had completely fucked up and did they intend to send everything, and the defense said "Yes". Then when these messages were brought up in court, the defense tried to say that they couldn't be allowed because they were private correspondence between them and their client. To which the prosecution supplied their conversation with the defense showing that tried to make them aware and gave them a chance to correct their error.

It was a monumental fuck up.

Some of the points here suggest that the $1b might be punishment for Jones not complying fully with courts, which I'd also disagree with the reasonableness of. However you say:

> The jury at the award hearing awarded the plaintiffs about $1B in damages. Rationale was to discourage Mr. Jones from continuing to libel family members impacted by mass shootings.

So the court decided that Jones said something wrong which hurt peoples feelings. And stopping him further hurting their feelings was worth $1B?

I don't agree with this and I think it's absurd. I feel for the families and I think what Jones did was wrong. I am glad he was punished, but $1B makes no sense to me.

I also don't understand the relevance death threats have unless Jones was urging his following to threaten the lives of the families? If the media run a negative article about someone and that person then receives death threats as a result I personally don't believe that is the media's fault, even if it later turns out what the media reported was incorrect. We can't punish people for the actions of others.

I think the deliberate maliciousness of it should bare more punishment, but I still think $1B is extremely unreasonable.

It's also absurd to me that a judge should have the right to make up an arbitrarily big number as a means to inflect a secondary punishment. $1 million is discouragement, $1 billion is an attempt to destroy the business and his life. While I have no sympathy for Jones, I still find this problematic if what you're saying is true.

Id challenge you to go back and dig up anything akin to Jones "waging war" on the Sandy Hook parents.

You said it with some authority, so I presume you're not scared of doing a little research to back it up.

This judgement ends up being more akin to punishing him by forcing him off of his platform, which is actually unconstitutional even for a shitbag like him.

This is basically a free speech issue akin to the JFK shooting theories.

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Do you have any funny jokes about the children who were "killed" at Sandy Hook or the crisis actors who pretended to be their parents and mourn for them that you want to share with the class?

Most people thought they were insane. Bill Drummond wrote about how it strained his relationship with his kids. You can tell that he regrets it.

Personally I think a million bucks to lease a domain name for a year is a really terrible business decision. You might be able to argue that it's going to victims but you could almost certainly just park that money into an interest-bearing account and do better for those victims.

But it's also been obvious from the beginning (starting with Jones' own comments) that nobody really gives a shit about these families and they're just props in other peoples' theater show.