The Onion’s offer to buy right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ Infowars platform, as part of a liquidation to pay off his debts to the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, is on hold until a bankruptcy judge can approve it.

The Onion’s offer to buy right-wing provocateur Alex Jones’ Infowars platform, as part of a liquidation to pay off his debts to the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, is on hold until a bankruptcy judge can approve it.

Houston bankruptcy Judge Christopher M. Lopez at a hearing Monday rejected a request from Jones for an emergency temporary restraining order to stop a bankruptcy trustee or those from The Onion from taking over Infowars assets, saying it wasn’t necessary since he hasn’t entered an order allowing such a change.

Lopez said he’s ready to consider objections as early as next week from Jones, a losing bidder, or others who have concerns with the transparency of the auction or the structure of the winning bid. The decision will determine whether Jones can remain on air on the platform he’s been broadcasting on for roughly 25 years.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    159·
    4 days ago

    On this timeline, Jones will get it all back and somehow bankrupt the sandy hook families because we can never have nice things.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 days ago

        We can make that happen. But it requires the hardest thing of all; unity and availability. Though, with things heating up the globe over availability won’t be a problem soon.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          4 days ago

          How can we stop it from happening? Chain ourselves to the door of Infowars?

          Anything we can do will take decades to change any of this shit. And we don’t have decades until the ecosystem collapses and we all starve.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            101·
            3 days ago

            I meant the timeline, we can change it still. Things are about to nosedive. Not saying society will survive, but maybe humans won’t die out. Infowars sale is already toast the judge is just deciding how to gank the onion. But there is still time to save things, not everything, but the main stream scientific consensus is still that there is time to mitigate damage, best of luck these next five years. Thats probably all we’ve got and its barely a billionth of a heartbeat of life’s history

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        181·
        4 days ago

        Well, yeah, there’s no way there going to see anywhere near the amount of money they won from the case.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      43·
      4 days ago

      It won’t happen. The judge is just going through due process. There hasn’t been any new news about this case since last week.

      There won’t be anything new until later this week. The posted article is old info.

      • HellsBelleOPEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        This article was posted on the 25th shortly after the hearing ended.

        I do agree with you that the judge is going through with due process tho, and my guess is that’s so AJ has no fallback challenges he can bring up at a later date.

        The court was clear on what the trustee could do, and they had a long keash on this. IMO the Onion will win and AJ will lose.