Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cannot use his personal bankruptcy to escape paying at least $1.1 billion in defamation damages stemming from his repeated lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, a U.S. bankruptcy judge ruled Thursday.
Between all the shit he’s hidden in various shell corporations and offshore bank accounts, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did have a billion dollars.
Besides, people get hit with fines that far exceed their ability to pay ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Grandmas were getting hit with 6-figure judgements back in the early 2010s before the RIAA figured out that suing random individuals for music piracy was bad publicity. Nintendo got a $10 million settlement and $4.5 million criminal fine from one guy selling devices to hack the Switch.
But once, just once, a fine is high enough to fuck over a rich guy after he did literally everything wrong and invented a few new ways to fuck up, and suddenly it’s “Ohhhhhh no, this is a MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE, how DARE the courts hold a rich man accountable for their actions, why won’t anyone think of the poor, oppressed rich guy ruining people’s lives so he can hawk fake diet pills?” Cry me a fucking river.
Don’t you think it’s fucked up that it happens at all? But suddenly it’s fine when it’s against someone you hate?