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Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
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#12As a fan of privacy rights, this pleases me.
Also, sites like Gawker benefit from encouraging the most base aspects of our culture. Seeing one head of the hydra getting chopped off isn't really progress, but it is satisfying.
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#13Gossip rags come and go. As long as there are celebrities there will be celebrity tabloids.
Privately funding a lawsuit for someone else so you can settle a grudge is ethically dubious, at best.
The American system of allowing juries instead of judges to set reward amounts only ultimately benefits overpaid lawyers, and society as a whole is worse off from the damages of frivolous lawsuits.
That's all I think there really is to say about that...
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#16Some context, for those who haven't been following: - Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker[1] - Hulk Hogan awarded payout over Gawker sex tapes[2] - $115M verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker[3] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774588 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318100
In your context, you forgot the step before those:
- Gawker outs Pether Thiel
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#17Purveyors of news take note. Provide news. Don't engage in useless insight into peoples' personal peccadilloes which have little if any bearing on people at large. Don't be lured by the clickbait revenue model or trade in inconsequential lurid tales and try to pedal it as hard news.
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#18Gawker may have been terrible, but we should all be a bit concerned at the precedent this sets.
It's sort of like defending the free speech of terrible groups like the KKK. We do it because we treasure free speech, not because we support the KKK.
I generally have positive feelings about Thiel, but his actions here make me very uneasy. I worry that the aristocracy will now use this method to try and close down unfavorable media outlets. I believe this will have a chilling effect on the media in the US.
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#19Messed up lawsuit and I actually don't know what to think. 1) Gawker was garbage dwelling story makers. I am glad they aren't going to do stories anymore. 2) Who will it be the next time something happens like this will it be a actual journalist and good content producer that gets sued to death? Scared for journalist???? Also would be nice to see LifeHacker survive this.
Also would be nice to see LifeHacker survive this.
Hopefully the market niche of LifeHacker will be polyfilled quickly. Also hopefully, the market niche of most of the rest of Gawker won't.
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#20Oh dear