> Jones' X account, which has 2.3 million followers, is "no different than a customer list of any other liquidating business," the Sandy Hook families argued.
It's very different because it's a public outlet of free speech, and its only value to someone is to suppress his speech since any other use is basically libel.
And he's being held responsible for that, but he still has an ongoing right to free speech. If he lies again (he will, especially now that he has nothing to lose), he'll be back in court.
Is anybody making Alex Jones not to say whatever he wants to say anymore? I mean like forcing him for drugs, surgery on tongue or hands to remove his ability to speak or write down his ideas?
He had freespeech and will have it (even people from jail can speak their mind), he is being held accountable of the content of his speech because lying for profit is not a tolerable practice in society. Same as scammers have freespeech to shell rattlesnake venom, but once they run with the money and rattlesnake is just colored water, the scammers had to answer for their actions.
> It's very different because it's a public outlet of free speech, and its only value to someone is to suppress his speech since any other use is basically libel.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that "any other use is basically libel".
Posting something as @realalexjones, especially when it was his account in the past, is akin to saying "Alex Jones said X," which is fine if he actually said it. If he didn't, it's libel.
Twitter handles, as well as display names, can be changed. (Not that posting from the account is the only use of the information it contains in the first place.)
Twitter is not a public outlet of free speech and you'd have to be an absolutely batshit lunatic to claim it is after everything that's happened with Musk's acquisition.
It's very different because it's a public outlet of free speech, and its only value to someone is to suppress his speech since any other use is basically libel.