Alex Jones Is Facing Two Lawsuits From Sandy Hook Families

US radio host Alex Jones is suing PayPal, claiming bias against conservative views was behind its decision to block his website.

The conspiracy theorist has been banned from most major web services, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

Mr Jones is alleging PayPal's ban is "viewpoint discrimination", calling it a "dangerous precedent".

PayPal told Courthouse News that the case was without merit and that it would vigorously defend itself.

PayPal decided to stop processing payments for InfoWars in September, claiming it violated their policies on promoting hate and violence.

The ban affected revenue Mr Jones made from selling Infowars-branded goods and right-wing literature.

"It is at this point well known that large tech companies, located primarily in Silicon Valley, are discriminating against politically conservative entities and individuals, including banning them from social media platforms such as Twitter, based solely on their political and ideological viewpoints," Mr Jones's company, Free Speech Systems, states in a 15-page complaint.

"Having effectively cornered the market, [PayPal] is now using that market power to restrain conservative trade and commerce," it adds.

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SuperRadioFan said:

Yes, that prospect should send shivers down anyone's spine.

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FreddyE1977 said:

Not mine. For the better part of a decade people on the political Left have been pushing for "net neutrality".
What do they think that means? They apparently didn't have a problem with the Fairness Doctrine either.

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gr8oldies said:

So what's the end game? If Facebook doesn't distribute my political content to every one of its users, even those who only want cat photos, it could be ruled censorship?

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TheBigA said:

So this is interesting. Now the Media Action Center is targeting the Alex Jones radio show to be labeled as "fiction" under the FCC's Hoax Rule:

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/...-action-center-campaign-targets-alex-jones-fo

I wonder how many other radio shows could be targeted under this same rule?

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FreddyE1977 said:

Who is the Media Action Center?
You should really identify them if you are going to use them as a source.
Personally I've never heard of them.

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kf4rca said:

Alex Jones to give sworn deposition in Sandy Hook case.
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/ne...ion-in-sandy-hook-defamation-case-against-him

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A Connecticut judge has ordered InfoWars host Alex Jones to give a sworn deposition in a case brought against him by families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.



Jones, along with three of his associates named as defendants in the case, must sit through questioning for up to five hours each by the attorneys for the families of the victims. Bridgeport Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled that the families are "entitled to conduct discovery likely to lead to admissible evidence for the purposes of opposing the motion to dismiss."

In the 39-page complaint filed, the families allege that even though Jones "does not in fact believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax," he accused them of "faking their loved ones' deaths and insisted that the children killed that day are actually alive." Beyond what the plaintiffs are calling "false narratives," they also claim that Jones and his associates have subjected them to death threats, harrassments and abuse both on and offline.

"For years, Alex Jones and his co-conspirators have turned the unthinkable loss of our sweet little Daniel and some many others into advertising dollars and fundraising appeals," said Mark Barden, in a statement.

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NEWTOWN - The Sandy Hook families suing extremist Alex Jones for defamation are willing to sign a court agreement to seal sensitive information during the pretrial phase, so that it doesn’t get disclosed publicly.

But the families draw the line at keeping Jones’ business records private, or agreeing to give him journalistic privilege to keep his sources confidential.


That is according to dueling motions filed in state Superior Court in Bridgeport, where Jones faces three defamation lawsuits by eight families of

Sandy Hook massacre victims and an FBI agent who investigated the 2012 mass shooting.

“Having used the plaintiffs’ grief and loss to their profit, the Jones defendants now attempt to force the plaintiffs to protect their profitability,” wrote the families’ attorneys in a motion on Monday. “For plaintiffs, such conditions are repugnant.”

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BRIDGEPORT (AP)— Infowars host Alex Jones, who is being sued for calling the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax, may face a Waterbury jury.

Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on February 14 told the lawyers for Jones and the parents of the Sandy Hook School victims that she has recommended the case be moved to the “complex litigation docket” at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, where she will be presiding, beginning September 1.

Jones’ lawyer, Jay Wolman, who previously asked the judge to move the case out of the area, contending his client cannot get a fair trial here, said later that the move of the case to Waterbury could make his request moot.

Jones is being sued by the parents and family of some of the first graders and school staff members who were killed in a mass shooting in December 2012 by a gunman. On his show, Jones claimed the shooting was staged by paid actors who faked the children’s deaths.

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BRIDGEPORT (AP)— Infowars host Alex Jones, who is being sued for calling the Sandy Hook School shooting a hoax, may face a Waterbury jury.

Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis on February 14 told the lawyers for Jones and the parents of the Sandy Hook School victims that she has recommended the case be moved to the “complex litigation docket” at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, where she will be presiding, beginning September 1.

Jones’ lawyer, Jay Wolman, who previously asked the judge to move the case out of the area, contending his client cannot get a fair trial here, said later that the move of the case to Waterbury could make his request moot.

Jones is being sued by the parents and family of some of the first graders and school staff members who were killed in a mass shooting in December 2012 by a gunman. On his show, Jones claimed the shooting was staged by paid actors who faked the children’s deaths.

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The conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blamed various claims he has made, including that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school shooting was a hoax, on “psychosis”, according to a deposition given by the Infowars host as part of a Texas lawsuit.

Jones described his conspiracy thinking as a kind of mental disorder in the deposition, which was taken earlier this month for the lawsuit filed against him by the family of a six-year-old who was among 20 children and six adults killed in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, the Austin American-Statesman reported.



Jones said he “almost had like a form of psychosis back in the past where I basically thought everything was staged, even though I’m now learning a lot of times things aren’t staged”.

Jones blamed his mental state on “the trauma of the media and the corporations lying so much, then everything begins – you don’t trust anything anymore, kind of like a child whose parents lie to them over and over again, well, pretty soon they don’t know what reality is”.

The defamation suit was filed in Travis county, Texas, where Jones’ media company is based. In August, the judge presiding denied Jones’ request to dismiss the case.

Jones’ attorneys have defended his speech in court as “rhetorical hyperbole”, but denied it was defamation. In the deposition, Jones continued to voice conspiratorial suspicions about the Sandy Hook shooting.

“I still think that there was a man in the woods in camo … and just a lot of experts I’ve talked to, including retired FBI agents and other people and people high up in the Central Intelligence Agency, have told me that there is a cover-up in Sandy Hook,” Jones said.

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