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lol. lmao

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I wanna know how much they spent on this joke. At the end of the day all they bought was a URL right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Variety:

The Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting that had sued Jones and Infowars’ parent company, Free Speech Systems LLC, backed the bid by The Onion to purchase Infowars’ intellectual property, including its website, customer lists and inventory, certain social media accounts and the production equipment used to put Jones on the air. The Connecticut families agreed to forgo a portion of their recovery to increase the overall value of The Onion’s bid, “enabling its success,” according to lawyers for the families.

So like also some cameras, contact lists, trademarks etc.

The real thing they bought was assurance nobody else could buy it. Especially those customer lists. Lists like that built the modern Right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

NYT says less than $3.5M, which is really not very much.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

they bought all the IP, immedatly after the sale he pireted all of the videos over to his new website and also called his show the same thing as the show name the Onion bought, so there is a decent chance a lawsuit will go up to stop that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck yes! AI Alex Jones vs fake Alex Jones! Let's GO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They finally designed AI slop I will consume

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

infowars is a trademark. the auction covers all his accounts and anything related to the brand as far as i know

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago

They get all the assets like the studio and the fake boner pill business