The Onion Targets Amateur Radio Websites in Uncontrolled Acquisition Spree

November 16, 2024 - The recent acquisition of the Infowars website and other assets by satirical news company The Onion has lead other important news sites to worry they could be next. Unsealed on Friday, The Onion’s Texas court filing for the Infowars purchase shows The Onion has hundreds of millions more dollars in the bank, all earmarked for further acquisitions. Our investigation uncovered that offers have already been made to the owners of ARRL.org, e-Ham.net, rac.ca, and qrz.com. But the offers aren’t exactly friendly. Titled, “An Offer You CANNOT Refuse,” they include threats that “Failure to sell will result in excessive ridicule by The Onion, the likes of which no one has ever seen.” Earlier today, even this publication, The Dipole, received a similar letter. Speaking on Good Morning America, The Dipole co-founder Adrian Stimpson (VE7NZ), said, “We immediately engaged our legal team to address this.  We believe the First Amendment protects serious news outlets like ours and will be issuing a ‘Cease and Desist’ order. We’ve had enough of those lefty’s from The Onion who think their immature, satirical nonsense is funny.” 

-reporting from US Federal Bankruptcy Court, Austin Texas, Adrian VE7NZ

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