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05/08/22

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Originally posted by Lapdog: ↑

It's my assessment that media reports of the decision by a Texas court to award damages against influential conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is a shot across the bows of those profiting from denying such massacres and from other events including global warming / climate change.

It's my view that the decision has established the legal precedent of compensation due to those who've suffered as a consequence and raises issues such as the fallout from being on the wrong side of history by blocking action to address global warming.

" InfoWars' Alex Jones ordered to pay parents of Sandy Hook massacre victims $US4.1m "
" A Texas jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay more than $US4.1 million ($5.9 million) in damages to the parents of a six-year-old boy who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
The ruling marks the first time the InfoWars host has been held financially liable for repeatedly claiming the deadliest school shooting in US history was a hoax. ..."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-05/jury-orders-alex-jones-to-pay-4million/101303182

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Yep. There are financial liabilities for saying certain things.

> profiting from denying
> established the legal precedent of compensation

Does this terrify you?
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