Alex Jones' InfoWars auctioned to pay Sandy Hook damages 

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Originally published at: Alex Jones' InfoWars auctioned to pay Sandy Hook damages  - Boing Boing

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Nope. Their money is all tied up in Donald Trump NFTs at the moment.

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Who wants to bid and push the price up? Worst case is you end up owning Infowars and redirect it to old episodes of Bagpuss or something.

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I wonder if a Russian oligarch will do Putin a solid by buying everything up through front companies and giving it back to Alex Jones.

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It should be made clear that whatever poison factory Jones starts up next to replace this one will meet the same fate. And the one after that, and the one after that…

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I really hope one of his fans buys it, so that the government can turn around and seize it again to help pay for the victims’ damages.

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What sucks about this sale is that obviously we’d like the Sandy Hook parents to be well compensated for the harms that Jones did to them, but we also don’t want such a hateful company to have any inherent value at all. If someone makes a well-informed, rational business decision to spend millions of dollars on these assets then it’s financially good for the parents but a terrible sign for society.

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It’s a no-win situation for society in that regard. The best we can expect is that it’s going to leave Jones in a no-win situation for the rest of his life.

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Who would want to buy his crap? Maybe the physical equipment is worth something, but as a brand it’s toxic. Or someone should buy it just to dismantle it.

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Since none of the money goes to Jones, it’d be nice if one of his many enemies (aka. decent people) bought all the intellectual rights[1] so that he can’t ever use his brands again.

I’m sure Alex Jones can find a new gig - after all, RT is still a thing.

[1] I’m using ‘intellectual’ in the legal sense.

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I hope the feds take a very close look at whoever buys it.

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I was thinking something like "a continuous loop of Herman’s Hermits singing “Henry the Eighth.” No intro music, no bumpers, no talking. Just an endless loop. When you hit the end of the time slot for the broadcast, stop in the middle and pick up for the next episode exactly from there.

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I thought of annoying the viewers, but then I realised that what they needed was to chill, and what is more chilling than Oliver Postgate’s 1970s childrens classic.

Maybe it is too socialist for them though, they are in a shop that doesn’t sell anything and they all co-operate to repair things for free.

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