This is a travesty, and that any could call such an absurd penalty "justice" is sickening. Especially when it is so obviously designed as a warning to everyone in the independent media.

Indeed, outside of the specifics of this case, the potential fallout for everyone in the alt-media sphere is terrifying, because already the Jones precedent is being used as an argument for "regulation" of the internet.

Forget about Sandy Hook. Maybe it happened or maybe it didn't, experience teaches us that virtually nothing happens exactly as the media reports, but even if it did – even if every single word Alex Jones ever said about Sandy Hook was a deliberate lie – you cannot "regulate" that, you cannot make it a crime, and you cannot silence people's future for words they have said in the past.

That is censorship.

People have the right to free speech. And that includes – MUST include – the right to lie and the right to simply be wrong.

If you take away those rights, you put the power to regulate speech in the hands of those with enough influence to create official "truth" or hold the "right" opinions. And that has nothing to do with objective truth, or real facts.