Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

  • kava@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    There are lots of ways to hide money and protect your assets, and many of them perfectly legal.

    Lot of it stems from laws made to protect regular people in debt (bankruptcy laws, getting rid of debtors prison, etc) but people with money use them too

    Imo it’s a worthwhile price. Otherwise credit cards would just take money straight from your wages if they could.

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      10 months ago

      Not when one of his victims has terminal cancer and can’t cash out because Jones is playing keep away through the courts.

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        10 months ago

        The problem is, shitty people are always going to abuse the laws. The goal, or at least the purported goal, is to minimize how many people get hurt when the law is abused.