11-15-2024, 01:15 PM
This post was last modified 11-15-2024, 01:54 PM by IdeomotorPrisoner.
(11-15-2024, 01:00 PM)KKLoco Wrote: But it is a free speech issue. I’ve never been a fan of Alex. However, that doesn’t give anyone the right to censor him.
Who creates the rules on this topic? Who is policing those rules? That’s the problem with a situation like this. Once you say ‘NO, he shouldn’t be able to say that!’ — then you open the door for all your other freedoms to be trampled on. The precedent has been set. Now we get to deal with the consequences.
You scratch the one time he lost his mind and he's still out there.
You can legally reboot the entire catalog of Infowars sans the Sandy Hook thing, create Not Infowars, and pick up right where he left off. It's just him and his assets for what he did on one issue. They want to ruin him for it.
No one stops Brand. No one stops Rogan. Musk. Coast To Coast, Fringe Conspiracy websites, or any of it.
I have always found it ironic how everyone gets to talk at length about the government censoring their free speech using Alex Jones as an example. When it's like top trending topic of free discussion at times.
I don't see it as free speech being eroded. They just killed his company because it crossed the line and started profiting off harmful slander that offended more than called out an anti gun agenda. It wasn't the spirit of free speech anymore.
It was like an insidious worm took over his brain and pushed him towards self-immolation. And they wanted to end him once he started making revenue slandering the tears of dozens of families and all those affected.
I think it gets unfairly turned into a martyrdom of free speech when it was more the time he crossed the line and probably should have let it go.
Everything else he said is still in play for anyone that didn't use their pulpit and get their privilege rescinded for slander and defamation... officially.
ETA:
Unofficially it was a technicality. The one "they" could finally get him on legally. He lied and assumed his way to two multimillion dollar media properties worth around 400 million. He no doubt pissed off people with influence.
It shows free speech is alive and well because THEY HAD TO WAIT FOR SANDY HOOK to take it all away. The law was protecting him until that. It goes without saying he'd have haters but even they had to wait for him to give them a legal avenue AROUND his free speech.
