Editor's Note: There are few Americans of such central importance to the information war as the man who claimed the name for his show: Alex Jones, creator of InfoWars, and Patient Zero of the technology industry’s now-pervasive practice of digital unpersoning. But the power class has not been satisfied with erasing the man from the internet. Today, the historical censorship of Jones migrates to its final home — and the future for all dissident thinkers if trend lines continue — in the court of law.

The case has been enlightening.

Max Meyer reports on the history of the case, detailing the claims and laws in question, with thoughts on the nature of this 21st Century witch burning.