Hacker News Reader

Comment by p3nt3ll3r | Hacker News Reader

This guy lied about mass shootings and encouraged the bullies to physically torment the parents of the victims. But sure, let's treat him as an equal. Twitter is a cesspool.

View on HN

>encouraged the bullies to physically torment the parents of the victims

Can you cite this? Never heard of that.

I hear/read this regurgitated in many comments about AJ as well as him calling for assassinating President Obama. Yet the evidence for this never materializes. This seems more like poisoning the well to avoid any discussion/argumentation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/business/media/alex-jones...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/04/17/sandy-hook-parents-su...

http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/sep/01/hilla...

https://newtownpostexaminer.com/2014/09/25/sandy-hook-hoaxer...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School...

None of these links has a quote from Alex Jones "encouraging physical harassment".

You've been using HN to comment only on ideology and politics. That's not a legit use of this site, whose purpose is intellectual curiosity, not ideological battle. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use the site as intended, we'd appreciate it.

We eventually ban accounts that use HN primarily for political battle. It will take over the site if we let it, so we can't let it.

Maybe what they're referring to is one step removed. InfoWars yammers on about crisis actors, insisting that the parents are government agents or some such (I can't make heads or tails of these conspiracies) and the listeners make their life hell. Here's an article about it, I'm surprised you haven't seen it if you've been following the sandy hook lawsuits.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sandy-hook-conspiracy-20...

Nice job Sealioning. Now go away.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions

Reply on news.ycombinator.com