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Judge orders hearing to review Onion’s purchase of Alex Jones’s InfoWars (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by kersploosh@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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“We’re all going to an evidentiary hearing and I’m going to figure out exactly what happened,” the judge, Christopher Lopez, said in an emergency hearing on Thursday afternoon. “No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

Oh bullshit.

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

“No one should feel comfortable with the results of this auction.”

What did he mean by that?

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

The way I read it: The judge sees InfoWars as a beacon of hope and truth, and Onion as an anarchist, absurdist fake news site. To him it is like giving away the Federal Reserve to Friedrich Engels as a gift. It just feels wrong. Endlessly funny.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

How do feelings even enter into this? They judge is nuts

[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

There are going to be a ton of people getting upset now that their source of fake boner pills is getting disrupted.

If there is anything that could trigger a bloody uprising and revolution, it's that.