mr peters tells you that when they came for alex jones the alleged crime was: hurting someone's feelings, which is the new location in which the first amendment is getting lost;

Alex Jones is off the air. His InfoWars studio and other assets auctioned off to pay a ridiculous but sinister-in-its-implications  $1.5 billion court judgment to his “victims” – whose feelings he hurt.

No actual harm done was established.

Of a piece with – among other examples – the comparably disproportionate hammer that was dropped by the federal government on Volkswagen for the “crime” of hurting the feelings of the government. Which is what it came down to. Yes, VW cheated on emissions certification tests the government imposed on VW . . . by tailoring the software programming that controlled the operating parameters of its TDI (diesel) engines to pass the tests.

Which they did.

This is done routinely, incidentally. But VW was the first to get hammered as hard as it was – but not because of the “cheating.” The federal government rightly perceived the threat to its authority implicit in the “cheating.”  The distinction is important to understand. If it were merely that VW’s TDI engines generated more than the allowable amount of oxides of nitrogen – or whatever it was at issue – the remedy would have been to impose a mandatory fix/recall and leave it at that......more.........