Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed

I mean, why aren't his assets seized and bank accounts frozen at this point?

Or is it only the poor that have to pay their fines?

Valve allows this?

I'll take this opportunity to plug a tiny podcast that I stumbled onto called "Some Dare Call it Conspiracy". It's hosted by two English guys that were hard-core conspiracy theorists for 15 years.

They now discuss, debunk and interview people around the conspiracy life. It's really fascinating to learn about Pizzagate, Chemtrails, Hunter Biden's Laptop and Jeffery Epstein from very knowledgeable people but in an environment of debunking.

Their latest episode is an interview with Rob Jacobson, a former staffer for Alex Jones that worked for him for 12 years. Jacobson ended up testifying against Jones in the Sandy Hook trial. The episode is on their Patreon at the moment but will roll out to the general public in a few days. Fascinating stuff and Jones is every bit as shady as one expects.

Look, people need something to play after they've finished Hogwarts Legacy.

Fun fact the game can be beaten in 45 minutes and steam refund policy allows returns on games played 2 hours or less

If you read the reviews for it, you can 100% beat the game in about 25-35 minutes and return it for a full refund. I was tempted to do that but I didn't want to enticed anyone else to buy it who may not play such a game on the devs.

Lock him up (for life, 0 chance of getting out), Access his bank accounts, pay out the damn families already, forget about him and let him rot in there.

Anyone know if it would it be worth reporting this as Defamatory on Steam? There are options for Legal Violation, Harmful, Fraud, Defamatory...without having played it it's hard to throw it in any of those specific categories, because they mostly have to do with the software itself, though Defamation might work since I'd be surprised if the content doesn't contain defamatory statements (even if they're wrapped in attempted irony for legal wiggle room).

This article invests a lot of effort trying to make it look like it's all Steam's responsibility.

If they know where money is coming from, aren't there legal mechanisms to take it directly from Valve?

Can't they just garnish his shit and empty his bank accounts?

I do find it weird that Steam actually had this as a game pushed to me. Not sure if that was targeted due to other game choices I've made, but I saw the ad and laughed and shook my head.

My concern here is that these are not real sales and steam is allowing Jones to use their service for a poor attempt at laundering, but I suspect as a non user steam is already using services to ensure that the sales are coming from legitimate computers and cards.

very cool America

Well I'm glad I didn't buy that, I didn't know he was actually associated with it financially. Figured it was the right kind of joke, not something tacky, tasteless, and stupid

What a dirtbag. I just had to explain to someone younger what that "infowars" sticker on someone's car means.

The TL;DR version is: "avoid that person".

I'll stick to playing Broforce

George W. Bush still hasn't been charged for war crimes

I guarantee the kids will not boycott Steam. That’s a line drawn too far.

Piracy and possible donating to the game studio is the morally correct choice.