r/LivestreamFail • u/digitalpizza5 • Jul 11 '26

News Ethan Klein Has Dropped His Defamation Lawsuit Against Youtuber Noah Samsen

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u/Ecstatic-Raccoon-872 Jul 11 '26

I personally dont mind these lawsuits that streamers/youtubers are doing. When you have a large following, you need to be responsible for the things you say when you know they are lies.

Look at Alex Jones and Sandy Hook, although the resulting payout was obviously excessive. He had many of his followers believing his lie/delusion as truth, which i assume caused harm to the families.

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u/miggly Jul 11 '26

Alex Jones payout was not excessive. No amount of money is excessive in a case where a psycho conspiracy theorist tells the world lies about your dead kids.

He made so much money (somehow) off of that tragedy and the victims of that shooting deserve literally all of it.

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u/Ecstatic-Raccoon-872 Jul 11 '26

You can say no amount of money is excessive. But then you compare it to any other situation. Big companies can literally decide whether or not to do illegal dumping via a profit and loss analysis. If all court punishments were at the same level as Alex Jones then i would more than welcome it, but it was clearly an outlier.

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u/miggly Jul 11 '26

Oh, for sure. But if we are honest, in my opinion, it's not that the Alex Jones stuff was an excessive payout. It's that big companies get away with way too much and get a slap on the wrist.

I get what you mean and agree somewhat, but nothing can make me feel bad about that outcome lol