Interested in owning Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire, Infowars? Its parent company, Free Speech Systems, is now officially up for sale following the approval of a Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.
I think Dan and Jordan should get all the emails addresses from Infowars' mailing list and send out stackies full of carefully laid out dissections of Alex Jones's show. Might actually get through to a few people.
Jones should get a court-ordered ankle bracelet, and every time someone loads that website, it sends out a shock. Each shock should act as a reminder to all the misery he's inflicted on so many people.
Could do all sorts of things with it!
Accept donations for all the groups Inforwars insulted or hurt in any way.
For yucks, put up a poll for how terrible a person Alex Jones is.
Add a form for recommendations on other fun things to with the site.
Looks like they're only breaking it down into three parts: Infowars the media company, Infowars the supplement store, and a pile of domain names. Production equipment might get sold as part of a separate auction.
I'm not loving the NDA though - open auctions should get more value.
That production equipment goes along with infowars the media company, I would assume. Unless it’s all, like, leased from someplace.
Edit:
INFOWARS (as a Package)
• Production Rights & Materials
• Domain Names
• Social Media Accounts
• Podcast Sites
• Newsletter Subscribers
• Production Equipment (Optional)**
**Note that the option to bid on physical assets (i.e. production equipment) as part of this offering will only be as a bulk offering in combination with an Inforwars Intellectual Property bid. If the physical assets are not sold under this offering, they will be offered through a piecemeal auction currently scheduled for December 10.
apparently the equipment does belong to infowars, it’s just the purchase at auction is only an optional part of the package. Otherwise, they’ll be sold off later.
Oh god, this is the one I want to control. I'd send so much bullshit on a daily basis and ignore every unsubscribe mail unless they include a picture of themselves wearing a rainbow tutu and nothing else while peeing on a statue of Donald Trump.
Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. Lord knows what they charged. It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.
Alex Jones is a professional grifter and he'd probably be able to take his audience with him. Just buy InfoWars whole and use it to spread facts and science instead
Some jackass like Musk is gonna buy it at auction for the minimum they can get away with, and turn it into XInfoWars or something, and rehire Alex Jones because "truth is free" or some shit.
There is 0 value in this as a media company, but it's always been a conspiracy theorist grift. It being resold that's really all it could be. Sadly, many in MAGA hats would love to keep the grift going.
IIRC homes are protected in bankruptcy, because someone decided it would be unfair to inflict homelessness on someone for committing the crime of being broke (irony very intended).
Honestly glad to hear it, I've heard horror stories of Sandy Hook survivors being harassed by their Trump-Supporting Parents for "Going along with the media's lie" and "Not sharing the Bezos money THEY gave you"
So I am ignorant of how he couldn't just envoke his first amendment rights on this case. I believe he is an asshole but I don't understand how he can be sued for talking in America.
Downvoted for asking a question? I thought I was on Reddit for a second.
The case was about the slander and libel, and inciting harassment. People were calling the families and telling them that were going to piss on their graves, dig up the bodies, etc. Alex Jones basically called the dad of one of the victims retarded on air.
Alex Jones featured several guests who were involved in actively harassing the family, eg Wolfgang Howiztzer.
Beyond that, he could have tried to use a first amendment defense, if he had complied with discovery. He lost the case on default, because he was withholding information and not complying with discovery. There were many, many issues where InfoWars representatives were not providing the information that they were legally required to provide. They were given many, many opportunities to correct this, and refused to do so.
You're protected from government persecution for the things you say by the first amendment. It doesn't protect you from being sued for harassment or slander by other citizens.