(April 19, 2018 at 5:11 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:(April 19, 2018 at 5:08 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The cases aren't parallel. I can accuse you directly of anything I like, and you can tell me to fuck off. If I levy a false accusation against you to some other party, it becomes defamation, which is illegal.
Boru
I don't really see the difference, since this is a public forum, there is an audience even if it's not the same as Alex Jones., Think of the floodgates that would open if the family won. Everyone could be sued for conspiracy videos or even certain shit talking online.
They won't win though. So it doesn't really matter.
Also Alex Jones didn't make up this conspiracy. Someone else did and he's just promotes it. I mean why Jones? Is every YouTuber who promotes this, or 9/11 truther nonsense subject to lawsuit?
Yeah, if he didn't originally make this stuff up, then the families are technically going after the wrong party. They need to go after whomever started the conspiracy to begin with. This amounts to nothing more than shooting the messenger, which, in this case, as much as I loathe Jones, is a violation of his First Amendment rights.
That guy shouldn't be allowed a platform for the shit that he does, but if we take away his right to do that, then we might as well take away everyone's rights and abolish the First amendment all together. That amendment is there to ensure that everyone has a right to say what they want to say, within reason. If it offends some people - then those people will have to stay offended. Chances are, at some point in their lives, they too, have said something to offend someone else. No one is perfect.
Again - if Jones wasn't the originator, but just the catalyst, then there are no merits of this case that the family can win because they really have no ground to stand on. They need to place their suit with whom ever started this.
Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
