Law Sandy Hook families want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts - Welp

NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - Families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims want to seize Alex Jones' social media accounts in his bankruptcy, saying that the conspiracy theorist's frequent posts to fans are a key part of the Infowars business being liquidated to pay Jones' debts. Jones, who filed for bankruptcy protection 17 months ago, has given up on trying to reach a settlement that would reduce the $1.5 billion that he owes to the relatives of 20 students and six staff members killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Jones and the Sandy Hook families now agree that Jones' assets should be liquidated in bankruptcy. But the families on Wednesday asked a U.S. bankruptcy judge in Houston, Texas, to additionally take control of Jones' X.com account and prevent Jones from using it to promote new business ventures. The Sandy Hook families asked the judge to make clear that the Jones' "@RealAlexJones" account on X.com, formerly known as Twitter, will be among the assets turned over to a court-appointed trustee in charge of liquidating Jones' assets. Jones' X account, which has 2.3 million followers, is "no different than a customer list of any other liquidating business," the Sandy Hook families argued.

They argued that Jones has used the social media account to push down the value of Infowars by diverting sales from that site to his father's DrJonesNaturals.com, which sells health supplements and other products. Jones' attorney, Vickie Driver, said on Thursday that the Sandy Hook families' request was procedurally improper and that Jones would oppose it at the appropriate time. "The Connecticut Plaintiffs have never wanted money from Jones but to silence him," Driver said.

Jones was banned from the platform for nearly five years, but his account was reinstated in December after a user poll conducted by X.com owner Elon Musk. A U.S. bankruptcy judge is scheduled to hear the families' demand at a Friday court hearing in Houston. The judge is expected to convert Alex Jones' bankruptcy case from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which offers more control to a bankrupt debtor, to a Chapter 7 liquidation, which would allow a court-appointed trustee to take and sell Jones' assets.

Jones claimed for years that the Sandy Hook killings were staged with actors as part of a government plot to seize Americans' guns. Jones has since acknowledged that the shooting occurred. The judge overseeing Jones' bankruptcy has ruled that most of the debt will survive after a liquidation, because it resulted from "willful and malicious" conduct. Jones has estimated that he has less than $12 million in assets, meaning that he will carry an enormous legal debt even after Infowars and his other assets are sold.

The Sandy Hook families intend to continue collection actions against Jones' future income, and pursue additional payments from Jones' wife, father, employees and other associates to whom Jones' allegedly diverted assets. A Chapter 7 liquidation will enable the Sandy Hook families to enforce their judgments "now and into the future while also depriving Jones of the ability to inflict mass harm as he has done for some 25 years," said Chris Mattei, an attorney for the Sandy Hook families. Jones has said on a June 7 broadcast of The Alex Jones show that Infowars is "overrun" and "will be completely worthless" without him. He encouraged listeners to buy products from DrJonesNaturals to support his "future" and make sure he can continue to broadcast after the shutdown of Infowars. "I've already sold everything but my house," Jones said on June 7. "I'm down to my last moves on this."

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Guys, you have to understand, this is TOTALLY not an attempt to use civil procedure to subvert the 1st amendment.

 

[The Mass Shooter Ron Soye]

If the @RealAlexJones X account is an asset, how much is it worth? How much is @XJosh worth?

 

[Fascist Frederick]

This is the last piece of the puzzle. The billion dollars PLUS his social media accounts will bring their children back from the dead. We're almost there.

 

[mlanguishi]

If I said their kids were all gay and deserved to die in a fake CIA coverup, does that mean anything goes against me?

Really, wtf is this shit. This is the worst case of deflecting blame I've ever seen.

 

[tehpope]

Nothing will be enough for these folks. They could have Alex in the gutter on some street corner and say he should be able to get food or change. Jesus.

I assume their next step is to prevent alex from making any more accounts on social media.

When we win, do not forget that these people want you broke, dead, your kids raped and brainwashed, and they think it's funny.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

It's becoming harder to sympathize with these people. I never thought "My child was murdered in school by an autistic nutcase" is a club any parent would want to belong to, but there you go.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

Still can’t comprehend how obsessed these families are with Alex Jones over the actual killer.

This is categorically not a normal reaction.

 

[Hitman One]

Elongated Muskrat should ban him again if they win just for the lulz.

 

[Fruttasecca]

How much is @XJosh worth?

Its a tax write-off

 

[mlanguishi]

Still can’t comprehend how obsessed these families are with Alex Jones over the actual killer.

This is categorically not a normal reaction.

Not only that, it's making me think like Hogg that when you hear 'survivor' or even now 'family' you wish they'd been included in the act. This is all crazy. It's all a cash cow business at this point. I bet they are happy their little ones got wasted cause now they're settled many times over with $$$$$

 

[Historical Strelkov]

And yet I still think Sandy Hook was a false flag and Alex Jones is an unwilling clown in the circus.
Funny how trying to destroy him in every way enforces that.

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

if i had a nickel for every time my opinion on a tragedy changed to "it didn't happen, but it should have", i'd have 2 nickels

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

All this does is 100% convince me that Sandy Hook never happened. Every time they press harder, I press X to Doubt more and more. FFS FBI, learn the god damn Streisand Effect.

 

[Fruttasecca]

Not only that, it's making me think like Hogg that when you hear 'survivor' or even now 'family' you wish they'd been included in the act. This is all crazy. It's all a cash cow business at this point. I bet they are happy their little ones got wasted cause now they're settled many times over with $$$$$

You cannot serve two masters, you will adore one and hate the other.
In this case they loved Mammon more than their own children, many such cases

 

[skunt]

it's an asset so they're gonna get it. they could probably rinse his retard audience for a few crypto scams while they're at it too. win/win

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

They really aren't going to stop until he agrees to shut up and never talk in public again.

I could even see him going dark online and on social media, and 2 years from now some podcaster tries to interview him and the families sue the podcaster to pull the ep and give them the revenue the podcaster makes from it.

He is being unpersonned before our eyes. But it's OK, because the 1984 dystopia we were afraid of isn't happening, it's not the government doing it, just private citizens, their lawyers, banks, and big corporations. We're still totes free guys!

 

[mlanguishi]

They really aren't going to stop until he agrees to shut up and never talk in public again.

I don't understand it. Are all truthers that said 9/11 was fake need to be liable? Are all the LIHOP/MIHOP ones about 9/11 that made up conspiracies need to pay? Apparently they could say whatever, but I guess since Jones have a bit of an audience he has to be virtually killed? Like Dave Chappelle said:

“Taking a man's livelihood is akin to killing him”.​

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WTF is this shit. I hate this world now. We have headland starwars wrecking all our shit, and these people saying if you even dare say anything bad means you have to die.

 

[BULLY HUNTER_78]

Still can’t comprehend how obsessed these families are with Alex Jones over the actual killer.

This is categorically not a normal reaction.

It’s what a crisis actor would do.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

The sheer insanity of these attacks on Jones have done more to convince me that Sandy Hook was fake than anything Jones ever said.

 

[Super Guido]

All this does is 100% convince me that Sandy Hook never happened. Every time they press harder, I press X to Doubt more and more. FFS FBI, learn the god damn Streisand Effect.

I think they're too busy seeing dollar signs to give a shit about anything else, unfortunately.