What are you implying then? That if someone gets popular enough we should all just roll over and let them do as they please? I’m failing to see a different interpretation when you end with
> Just some things to think about. Unintended consequences.
> Just some things to think about. Unintended consequences.
It makes the punishment look unusual and petty.
Can anyone justify why the amount should be that high? Does he have 1 billion dollars?
I would have fined him 200million something he might actually have.
Using the law to make an example out of someone requires moral authority and the population to agree. COVID has shown us, America is split on that.
1) InfoWars wasn’t some small blogger or random guy on the street. It’s a business with 10s to 100s of millions in revenue depending on which documents Alex Jones had for the day
2) Alex Jones had the opportunity to defend himself and instead either did not show up to his court dates or chose the opportunity to continue attacking the plaintiffs and doubling down on perjurious statements when given orders not to
If anything the “wrong moral signal” being sent here is that even when your behavior is not functionally different from trying to rack up the highest damage amount possible, it’s still easily payable by our top echelons of society.