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He made hundreds of millions of dollars spreading his lies. He shouldn't profit from that, and should be forced to give all the revenue to the families he effec
by atrus 4y ago
He made hundreds of millions of dollars spreading his lies. He shouldn't profit from that, and should be forced to give all the revenue to the families he effected with his lies.
You shouldn't be able to profit off of others misery like that, get caught out, and then go whoopsy and pay a small percentage of all the money you made off of it. That just encourages you and others to do it again.
- budder 4y agoWould it be ok if he wasn’t profiting from it?
- chatterhead 4y agoHN doesn't like these kinds of questions. You're right - it is OK as long as he's not profiting nor has a bullhorn the size of his. Otherwise, Wolfgang Halbig would be in the same kind of shit. He isn't.
- jmull 4y agoHN isn't one guy with coherent views... But anyway, it's not a very good question because it isn't plausibly serious nor logically related to the previous post.
- chatterhead 4y agoWhen group censorship creates a lack of diversity that's exactly what it becomes.
- adamrezich 4y agojust look at the downvotes man. look at the overemotional (protip: use of the word "fuck") posts. the consensus on this site is clear.
- dredmorbius 4y agoWith some cause. <https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions> See the first seven items under HN guidelines for "In Comments": <https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>
- chatterhead 4y agoSounds like something someone does before blacklisting you.
- M2Ys4U 4y agoNo. But it would be less bad.
- guilhas 4y agoBut maybe he does not think they're lies. He thinks he is spreading the truth. Doesn't that make a difference, from lying on purpose for profit? The same for the people giving him money. They don't care what he says, they never believed Sandy Hook was real for starters. They give him money because they want to see it "uncovered" and investigated from the only "journalist" that takes it
- dredmorbius 4y agoTo prove prima facie defamation, a plaintiff must show four things: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) publication or communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and 4) damages, or some harm caused to the reputation of the person or entity who is the subject of the statement. <https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/defamation> Belief is not an element of the definition.