"The point is that courts are ill-equipped to deal with people like Alex Jones"
Is that true though? Wouldn't any normal person have already run afoul of countless rules that would have them held in contempt and thrown in jail on that basis if nothing else? isn't everyone just going easy on Jones and his people because of how crazy they are and no one can be bothered dealing with the drama?
"But they don’t solve the problem. America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us."
More than that personally I would say Jones is not even that big of a deal. Stripped down to it's fundamentals I think all that Jones is doing is making what's called arbitrary assertions. Or put more colloquially, he is just making s@#t up. But how is that different to any priest in any church and the like?
The lingua franca of the Eastern empire at the time of Jesus and Tiberius, Pilate etc, was Greek. This is why Paul's epistles are in Greek (he was a near-contemporary of Jesus, and a Roman citizen.) If Pilate and Jesus had a common tongue, it would probably have been Greek.
When the claims you've made are without any kind of source (Jones had his constitutional rights repressed), have nothing to do with what's being discussed (he apologized, he was only expressing his beliefs), or are completely false (Alex Jones never named the families suing him... when falsely claiming they were crisis actors?)... when that's the quality of the claims, you can expect a similar effort on any rebuttal.
The fact you disliked the article but addressed nothing that was being said in the article tells people what you really didn't like was anything critical of Alex Jones. And your idea that it doesn't count as defamation if you apologized is, in fact, nonsense.
Your crying of cancel culture is hilarious, especially when you cite Ken's article as a contradiction to his treatment of you. The entire point of the article is that people snubbing you for what you've said is just more free speech, not being cancelled.
America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.
A chicken/egg problem I think, if demagogues did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.
"The point is that courts are ill-equipped to deal with people like Alex Jones"
Is that true though? Wouldn't any normal person have already run afoul of countless rules that would have them held in contempt and thrown in jail on that basis if nothing else? isn't everyone just going easy on Jones and his people because of how crazy they are and no one can be bothered dealing with the drama?
"But they don’t solve the problem. America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us."
More than that personally I would say Jones is not even that big of a deal. Stripped down to it's fundamentals I think all that Jones is doing is making what's called arbitrary assertions. Or put more colloquially, he is just making s@#t up. But how is that different to any priest in any church and the like?
The lingua franca of the Eastern empire at the time of Jesus and Tiberius, Pilate etc, was Greek. This is why Paul's epistles are in Greek (he was a near-contemporary of Jesus, and a Roman citizen.) If Pilate and Jesus had a common tongue, it would probably have been Greek.
This is full nonsense. And also irrelevant to the point of the piece.
When the claims you've made are without any kind of source (Jones had his constitutional rights repressed), have nothing to do with what's being discussed (he apologized, he was only expressing his beliefs), or are completely false (Alex Jones never named the families suing him... when falsely claiming they were crisis actors?)... when that's the quality of the claims, you can expect a similar effort on any rebuttal.
The fact you disliked the article but addressed nothing that was being said in the article tells people what you really didn't like was anything critical of Alex Jones. And your idea that it doesn't count as defamation if you apologized is, in fact, nonsense.
Your crying of cancel culture is hilarious, especially when you cite Ken's article as a contradiction to his treatment of you. The entire point of the article is that people snubbing you for what you've said is just more free speech, not being cancelled.