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Referring to Jones as "...the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name)..." in the announcement is a masterstroke given Jones' ridiculous ego.

I hope Jones is never named on the new site, but frequently and flagrantly referenced in a manner like this.

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I hope for the opposite, Jones has so much video and audio content available cloning him digitally and shoving an AI generated fist, ahem, somewhere, and using his likeness as the satire would be cathartic. Better yet he himself argued in court that the person live on Info Wars is a character inseparable from the brand.

This has been my thought all along. Drown out his real stuff with AI generated slop. Slop him.

They should make a video of Jones actually eating his neighbors.

Isn't that illegal? If it isn't, it may become so in the near future as many legislations are working on it.

Satire is protected in the US and many other countries, but "cloning" a person using AI implies that it makes difficult to distinguish between the real person and the clone. I guess it can pass if it is obvious that it is indeed satire, but that would be risky.

Maybe it could be remediated by having him wear a clown hat or something.

I don't think it would be in this case. It's possible his likeness will be included in the sale due to him claiming he played a character on infowars.

I love the idea that the character and likeness would be Infowars' IP and went with the sale. That claim he made during the custody proceedings, about playing a character, should definitely come back to bite him in the ass.

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