Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis entered a judgment of liability against InfoWars host, Alex Jones, on a big technicality: failure to participate in discovery.
Jones built his reputation on iconoclastic opinions of Machiavellian conspiracies around many stories.
Many fans who called his show over the years agreed with his allegations.
Jones averred that Sandy Hook school shooting was a staged ‘false flag’ event using ‘crisis actors;‘ but, many raised questions about things that are still unanswered.
For example, many think that the rapid demolition of a school that was in good condition after the shooting means the Government was destroying evidence at the scene of a fake crime.
Those kind of ideas gave enough credibility to Jones’ allegations to make his Machiavellian conspiracy hypothesis viral, resulting in several lawsuits filed by families of Sandy Hook victims.
Jones was right that we live in an Orwellian Age of info manipulation that can go viral thanks to the internet.
For example, Mark Zuckerberg allegedly used his influence in an attempt to affect the 2020 election outcome.
The Government has politicians and bureaucrats to blame for the significant distrust of Big Brother. That’s why many people will not take the Covid vaccine.
But shutting down pundits like Jones only fuels the belief in conspiracies because First Amendment.
Jones is not alone in discussing alternative iconoclastic opinions that stale brains may call weird.
Long time late night talk shows like Coast to Coast AM, and Clyde Lewis’ Ground Zero program also discuss controversial topics with a vengeance.
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