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A jury tags Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages for 2 Sandy Hook parents
Jones, the creator and face of the conspiracy-peddling website InfoWars, is on the hook for a total of $49.3 million for spreading falsehoods about the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school.
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Not really. The punitive damages will be capped, probably less than $2 million.
Of course, the whole thing will probably be thrown out on appeal when he is not barred by a kangaroo court from asserting a 1A defense.
Free speech (or to put it more correctly liberal speech) doesn't mean speech has no cost.
Absolutely correct.
However, he was forbidden by the judge to even offer it as a defense.