Bollea sued Gawker Media for invasion of privacy for publishing a surreptitiously recorded sex tape. Gawker asserted that Bollea had indulged in so much public sexual braggadocio that he had no sexual privacy left to invade. But Bollea countered that it was his public character , Hulk Hogan, who engaged in the sexual banter, and that Gawker had invaded the privacy of his private persona. Fellow excitable talk-radio host and conspiracy theorist Michael Savage was less successful with the same argument.
The federal court was unimpressed and dismissed the suit. Trump, on the other hand, has benefited from a variation on the argument. This legal rift between public and private personas would be confusing enough if it applied only to celebrities.
But in the Internet age, it can apply to anyone , with potentially chaotic results. In Dallas, Babak Taherzadeh is charged with felony stalking for a series of alarming Twitter comments about Judge Brandon Birmingham, who oversaw one of his cases.
It may have been difficult for Birmingham to tell the difference when Taherzadeh was tweeting ominously about his family. Morally, judgment should be harder to evade.
Their pain is the same whether Jones is sincere or just in it for the money. The Rule of Goats applies. Alex Jones, playing a character or not, is a goat-kisser. Follow the Opinion section on Twitter latimesopinion or Facebook. She was polite. She offered that though she's a fan of Jones, she disagrees with him on some issues. One of the things she's not so sure about is Jones' views on a massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. Families who lost children in the mass shooting filed a defamation suit against Jones, who's promoted theories that the school shooting was a "false flag" operation by gun control advocates.
His lawyers argued recently in court that Jones did not defame one victim's parents, who said they have been so harassed by Jones' followers they've been forced to move seven times. She mentioned the Oct. That's why Infowars needs to be on Facebook, she argued. But I do agree with most.
And I definitely agree that Infowars should be out there on Facebook. That's our constitutional right," Boguszewicz said. Plenty of people share her point of view, but the Constitution does not guarantee freedom of speech on websites like Facebook. As privately owned companies, Facebook, Apple and the like can decide what content is permitted on their platforms. One longtime follower of Jones takes him with a grain of salt even as he's listened to him for over 20 years. Dietrich said he started listening to Jones around the time the Infowars founder got his start on Austin Public Access Television in the late s.
What Jones is doing is questioning conventional wisdom, he said. His theories and questions "may just be opinions, but if you listen closely and do your own research you will often be led to a staggering amount of facts," he said. Banning Jones from major social media sites is "dangerous to democracy," Dietrich said.
But unlike most people I believe in the democracy of information and how the best information will tend to stand on its own," he said. Marine veteran Joe Hyatt, who took part in the invasion of Iraq, put it more simply: "I didn't go to war and fight for censorship. I didn't do that brother. And that's what breaks my heart," said Hyatt, 42, who works for an equipment rental store n Garland. Now, they can say that I'm crazy and kick me off. Hyatt, 42, of Garland, admits some of Jones' stuff is "pretty far out there" but still considers him thought-provoking.
Hyatt agrees with Jones that the government wants gun owners to surrender their legally purchased guns. And that there should have been a bigger debris field from the impact of a jumbo airliner on the Pentagon. I just don't think we're getting the whole truth," Hyatt said. Hyatt understands there's no guarantee you can say whatever you want on a platform like Facebook.
There's certain understandings," Hyatt said. Yet if you tend to write some things, especially from a socially conservative viewpoint, they're red-flagged," he said.
Asked to explain, Hyatt said, "We're expected to tolerate people who live a lifestyle that's contrary to my beliefs. And yet someone comes along with a different viewpoint from these people, and they're like, 'Oh, you're kicked off. You're done. Oh, and you're going to court for defamation. Trump makes last-ditch effort to stop release of White House records. Legal analyst reacts to judge rejecting Trump's attempt to withhold documents.
Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued default judgments on Monday against Jones and his outlet for not complying with court orders to provide information for the lawsuits brought against him by the parents of two children killed in the shooting.
The rulings, which were first reported by the Huffington Post, effectively mean that Jones lost the cases by default. A jury will convene to ascertain how much he will owe the plaintiffs, the report said. What is Infowars? An attorney for the parents, Mark Bankston, told CNN in a written statement that the rulings offers his clients "the closure they deserve. He added: "Mr. Jones was given ample opportunity to take these lawsuits seriously and obey the rule of law.
He chose not to do so, and now he will face the consequences for that decision.
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