Alex Jones did not, as far as the evidence we have seen, harass the parents. Alex Jones did not direct anyone to harass the parents.

Some of his viewers used Jones' statements as justification for harassments.

Interestingly, as far as I know, nothing was pursued against the people harassing the parents. They went after the rich guy saying lies they didn't like, then depended on the fact no one besides the defense wants to side with someone who says such shockingly vicious lies about the facts surrounding dead kids.

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Shog9 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The defense - including Jones himself - also did a very poor job, so it's debatable whether anyone at all wanted a different outcome.

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wat10000 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's understating things rather substantially. He ignored court orders. He continued to defame the plaintiffs during the trial, including a statement on air that one of the plaintiff's death by suicide was actually a murder and part of the conspiracy.

If you were sued and your objective was to lose as badly as possible and get as harsh a judgment as possible, it would look a lot like what Jones did here.

	▲	traderj0e 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That might have been his objective really. All that talk about the govt being after us for years, and now he can point to them forcing him to sell everything off, while he still maintains the same fanbase. But what can they do, he really deserved the judgement.

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micromacrofoot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the lies they didn't like lead to the harassment, it's not at all complicated

free speech doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the damages your words cause, despite not causing them directly