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.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      16 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·
        16 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·
          16 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

          • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
            61·
            16 days ago

            I think its going to be like the end of the roman empire. Society will collapse, there will be lots of death and suffering for a long time, things will stabilize and we will rebuild and the cycle will continue. Its how civilization has run for basically all of time.

            Edit: if humans make the planet inhospitable to our species (probable) there’s a good chance another intelligent life form will evolve to take our place. Maybe once they get advanced enough they can learn from our mistakes. Life has iirc 600 million years left on the planet, so that’s plenty of time for something else to come along.

            • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              21·
              16 days ago

              Thats less time between us and the dinosaurs. Earth bet everything on us, if we dont reach the stars our cradle will become our grave.

              • Ham Strokers Ejacula@reddthat.comEnglish
                21·
                16 days ago

                Nah. We already have octopi, crows, and dolphins with high degrees of intelligence. Human civilization only evolved in the last 100k years or so. Its doable.

                For the record I think we need to solve the climate crisis with great urgency. I just don’t think it will be the end of life on Earth. I also believe black holes birth new universes so if we don’t get it right this time around we can get it right next time around! Haha just kidding we’ll fuck that earth up too.