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> Jones seems like a nut, but the way he's being taken to the cleaners and sued for comical amounts of money are just absurd. I'm not a lawyer, but my understa
by jancsika 2y ago
> Jones seems like a nut, but the way he's being taken to the cleaners and sued for comical amounts of money are just absurd.
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is the Jones/Sandy Hook case-- like the Fox/Dominion case-- was an outlier because there is nearly never that amount of evidence to be able to pass the high bar for defamation.
So I think it's the other way around-- Jones was comically brazen in the claims he made. Hence the huge amounts in the Jones cases. (And if the podcasters are as brazen, go tell the real living people about their open-and-shut defamation cases and collect a nice finders fee for yourself. :)
Edit: clarification
- loeg 2y agoJones was also completely hostile to the courts and legal process. That will get you a larger punishment than someone who did the same actions but respected the court.
- Nathanba 2y agoI watched some of his videos at the time and to me it seemed mostly like the exact same content that he always does. Very much not brazen claims of facts, just musing and speculating that it's all fake and the parents are smiling so they might be actors. That's it. And the entire time he was emphasizing that he doesn't know for sure and it's all theory.
- jjeaff 2y agohe specifically called out parents by name, constantly made claims that they were obviously crisis actors, showed pictures of the parents, and did nothing when his listeners started harassing the parents daily.
- Nathanba 2y agoYou probably mean parents who went on live television to give interviews? Well obviously he can show "pictures" of people who were on TV with their name.