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very cool America
I'm curious. What would you like "America" to do in this situation?
Have an actually functioning legal and economic system so people like this can't be created nor have this sort of power in the first place? When you have criminals running businesses making bank, multi-millionaires even, while not giving his victims the compensation that they're supposed to be getting, you've fucked up. Seize his assets and distribute them to the people who he defamed, take all of his earnings except for the bare minimum he needs to survive until this debt is paid off (which it won't be since it's far more than he could ever pay anyways). That's what he should expect if he disobeys legal orders and refuses to do the bare minimum in paying victims out.
They already froze his assets and are in the processes of collecting for the families. They already ruled bankruptcy is not an excuse not to pay.
The legal systems seems to agree with what you want the desired outcome to be. I guess the only difference is you want to government to be able to have full control over everything, so they can take it instantly?
America removed the fairness doctrine under Reagan - that action is a direct line to allowing for an Alex Jones. "America" had somewhat functioning structures to prevent unchecked, rampant disinformation on the airwaves, Reagan removed it.
On the brighter side, every time I mention the fairness doctrine I get a brief reminder that Reagan and rush Limbaugh are now both bloated, rotting corpses. The more time passes, history will only remember them as the monsters they were. Their propagandists die off more by the day and eventually only the facts of the damage they did to society will remain
Did Alex Jones ever hold a broadcast license for the fairness doctorine to be applicable?
Pretty sure he got popped a few years ago for his pirate radio. And then got popped with the biggest defamation fine ever.
An alex jones doesn't become an alex jones without a rush limbaugh and a fox news. And you don't get a rush limbaugh or fox news at the scale of influence they had without what reagan did to the Fairness Doctrine.
They would have otherwise stayed on the fringe, where they belong (if anywhere) to make their spurious, wholly unfounded claims about how the children that were shot in the face with an assault rifle weren't shot in the face with an assault rifle.
As in the US justice system? Actually follow his money trail and stop it where ever he hides it until he has payed back every cent of the bill he owns.