Thin skinned billionaires...
You wouldn't say that if some private aspect of your own life was revealed to the public without your consent.
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
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Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#42Messed 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.
It wasn't "posted video ... sued out of existence"
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#43Messed 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.
Jalopnik is a pretty good car site too. Good community and more than just regurgitated press release car reviews.
Hopefully it finds a new home without too much blood loss.
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#44Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#45Gawker 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 unfavor…
Are you suggesting the Hogan suit was groundless?
The issue I have with it is that money from an external source that had nothing to do with the suit was funnelled in to use it as a weapon.
Thiel had an issue with Gawker, Thiel should have taken it to Gawker.
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#46Gawker 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 unfavor…
I agree. I never read Gawker or any of its sites, they were all garbage. And the Hulk Hogan sex tape was scummy garbage that I never had any interest in. But it also isn't that different from lots of other celebrity leaks that have been published before which have not resulted in damages that ruined the publishers.
Peter Thiel funding a lawsuit against a company he has a personal grudge against is a scary thing. What if the Koch Brothers decide to start funding lawsuits against Nature or Science magazines that publisher articles about global warming? Even if none of the lawsuits win, they could shut down these publications because of the legal bills involved in the court cases.
People celebrating this are in my opinion incredibly myopic.
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#47Some 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
You forgot a step before that:
- Peter Thiel is a hard-core activist for individual rights, including freedom of speech
Thiel is pro-freedom when it suits him and anti-freedom when it doesn't. In my opinion, he has lobbied for a world where journalists can "out" people, and now he's taking revenge when it happens to harm him.
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#48Gawker 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 unfavor…
I don't believe that this case set any new precedent.
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#49Gossip 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 re…
>Privately funding a lawsuit for someone else so you can settle a grudge is ethically dubious, at best.
Do you feel that revenge in general is ethically dubious or just the lawsuit part?
Re: Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction
#50Messed 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.
I don't understand #2 (and I've heard it a lot). Theil with all his money was unable to sue/destroy them for a decade even with their despicable behaviour. It wasn't until they did something illegal (the Hogan case) that they went down. Is there really risk for journalists who don't break privacy laws?