Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire Infowars will be sold for parts to help pay Sandy Hook families
Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire Infowars will be sold for parts to help pay Sandy Hook families
Interested in owning Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire, Infowars? Its parent company, Free Speech Systems, is now officially up for sale following the approval of a Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.
The assets will be sold at auction but do they hold any value after all this? Does anyone really WANT infowars.com at this point?
I think whoever buys infowars(dot)com should donate it to Dan and Jordan of the Knowledge Fight Podcast. That would be the perfect way to end things.
It should redirect to https://www.knowledgefight.com
His sycophantic crypto bro asshole friends will try to bail him out. They've already been sending money his way.
I Do! I'd spend hundreds for it.
Could do all sorts of things with it!
Accept donations for all the groups Inforwars insulted or hurt in any way.
For yucks, put up a poll for how terrible a person Alex Jones is.
Add a form for recommendations on other fun things to with the site.i agree. without being the bullshit machine it was designed to be, it loses all its value
I think it would be hilarious if someone bought it, kept the same design, and told the truth.
If I had fewer scruples, I could probably run a pretty good scam for a while.
How much do you think it'll be to buy an Infowar?
I'm sure that that's plenty of physical equipment and maybe a few buildings owned by Infowars that someone will be interested in.
The actual auction site: https://360assetadvisors.com/events/fssmh/
Looks like they're only breaking it down into three parts: Infowars the media company, Infowars the supplement store, and a pile of domain names. Production equipment might get sold as part of a separate auction.
I'm not loving the NDA though - open auctions should get more value.
That production equipment goes along with infowars the media company, I would assume. Unless it’s all, like, leased from someplace.
Edit:
INFOWARS (as a Package)
• Production Rights & Materials
• Domain Names
• Social Media Accounts
• Podcast Sites
• Newsletter Subscribers
• Production Equipment (Optional)****Note that the option to bid on physical assets (i.e. production equipment) as part of this offering will only be as a bulk offering in combination with an Inforwars Intellectual Property bid. If the physical assets are not sold under this offering, they will be offered through a piecemeal auction currently scheduled for December 10.
apparently the equipment does belong to infowars, it’s just the purchase at auction is only an optional part of the package. Otherwise, they’ll be sold off later.
Sooo who wants to crowdfund an auction!
I wonder what John Oliver is going to buy?
Some jackass like Musk is gonna buy it at auction for the minimum they can get away with, and turn it into XInfoWars or something, and rehire Alex Jones because "truth is free" or some shit.
There is 0 value in this as a media company, but it's always been a conspiracy theorist grift. It being resold that's really all it could be. Sadly, many in MAGA hats would love to keep the grift going.
wow that only took like 4 years to do.
it's going to be another 10 years before they see a dime though.
oh the wheels of justice are moving. watch as they roll over the victims and blame the driver, father time.
Just enough time to move all his real assets into his dads name!
12 years later. JFC why isn't this jerk homeless by now?
Rich bankrupt isn't nearly as bad as regular people bankrupt.
IIRC homes are protected in bankruptcy, because someone decided it would be unfair to inflict homelessness on someone for committing the crime of being broke (irony very intended).
If Elon Musk was a good person, he would buy the site and turn it into a memorial page for the victims at Sandy Hook.
But he is not a good person.
That shitheel is more likely to buy it and just give it back to Jones.
5 to 1 odds a foreign government buys it and has him keep running it.
Now’s the time to get a good deal on boxes of herbal dick pills.
Just what I need for my herbal dick.
Just like AT Finn grass arm, but it's a dick
And a 100,000 watt shortwave radio transmitter
Keep posting this and I'll keep up voting!
Now that is a poetic ending
Chop shop that shit up!
Reverse auction time!
I think that money could be used for better things by people who actually need it.
Edit: Or it can be used to buy these people new SUVs, yeah.
Fuck off.
You have no idea what these families have been through to even make an attempt to decide whether they deserve it.
So I am ignorant of how he couldn't just envoke his first amendment rights on this case. I believe he is an asshole but I don't understand how he can be sued for talking in America. Downvoted for asking a question? I thought I was on Reddit for a second.
The case was about the slander and libel, and inciting harassment. People were calling the families and telling them that were going to piss on their graves, dig up the bodies, etc. Alex Jones basically called the dad of one of the victims retarded on air.
Alex Jones featured several guests who were involved in actively harassing the family, eg Wolfgang Howiztzer.
Beyond that, he could have tried to use a first amendment defense, if he had complied with discovery. He lost the case on default, because he was withholding information and not complying with discovery. There were many, many issues where InfoWars representatives were not providing the information that they were legally required to provide. They were given many, many opportunities to correct this, and refused to do so.
You're protected from government persecution for the things you say by the first amendment. It doesn't protect you from being sued for harassment or slander by other citizens.
Honestly glad to hear it, I've heard horror stories of Sandy Hook survivors being harassed by their Trump-Supporting Parents for "Going along with the media's lie" and "Not sharing the Bezos money THEY gave you"