Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed

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Alex Jones is profiting from his new game on Steam — while refusing to pay the Sandy Hook families he defamed
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Following his trial for defamation of the families of the children and school staff killed in the Sandy Hook massacre, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is using Valve Corp.’s Steam, the world’s largest digital distribution platform for PC games, to sell an Infowars-themed video game. Jones claims to have earned hundreds of thousands in revenue from the video game, yet he has refused to pay the Sandy Hook families. Alex Jones: NWO Wars also mirrors and cartoonishly repackages the conspiracy theorist’s regularly violent, hateful rhetoric despite the platform’s policies against hate speech.

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Piracy and possible donating to the game studio is the morally correct choice.

So here's the problem with piracy as a protest... It doesn't cost the publisher anything. Which has always been kind of the point of piracy.

Unfortunately when you pirate this game you receive an item of negative value, so I would recommend just staying away from the whole thing.

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