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Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with money to use said money to fight back legally. It's their freedom too.
From the article: "Historically, news publications have treated certain subjects very carefully: if you’re rich and [...] litigious, then [...] organizations will have lawyers do a careful review of anything they write about you [...]" Well, if they would now have to "do a careful review" of everything they write for the fear of vengeful billionaire going after them, nobody would shed a tear. But obviously that wont…
"Later asked by an attorney for Hogan if there was a situation in which a celebrity sex tape might not be newsworthy, Delaurio responded: “If they were a child.” The attorney then asked him to specify: a child under what age? Daulerio responded: “Four.”" This was the Gawker editor who came up with the sex tape and story. This sums up the the anything goes interpretation of free speech these people have. (Although he…
Yeah ,There are no good guys here. Criticizing Thiel shouldn't be confused with supporting Gawker , because we don't know who Thiel might choose to punish next
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Yeah ,There are no good guys here. Criticizing Thiel shouldn't be confused with supporting Gawker , because we don't know who Thiel might choose to punish next
Yeah, it scares me that people are accepting this as "philanthropy" uncritically.
Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with money to use said money to fight back legally. It's their freedom too.
If anything, this is not a problem of freedom of speech. This is an old legal problem: "the rich have money to pay the lawyers and the poor don't".
But in this case, Hulk Hogan is 100% right, and Thiel is doing society a favor.
"Later asked by an attorney for Hogan if there was a situation in which a celebrity sex tape might not be newsworthy, Delaurio responded: “If they were a child.” The attorney then asked him to specify: a child under what age? Daulerio responded: “Four.”" This was the Gawker editor who came up with the sex tape and story. This sums up the the anything goes interpretation of free speech these people have. (Although he…
Yeah ,There are no good guys here. Criticizing Thiel shouldn't be confused with supporting Gawker , because we don't know who Thiel might choose to punish next
Thiel didn't "punish" anyone. Gawker broke the law, and he helped hold them to account via the legal system.
I don't like Thiel one tiny bit. He's a weirdo. But this is, like, the least bad thing a billionaire has ever done to infringe on "free speech". Hypothetically abusing the legal system (eg, many frivolous lawsuits) would be bad, but he hasn't actually done that.
Like most things in adversarial law, it looks to me like an atom-blaster that can point both ways.
"Later asked by an attorney for Hogan if there was a situation in which a celebrity sex tape might not be newsworthy, Delaurio responded: “If they were a child.” The attorney then asked him to specify: a child under what age? Daulerio responded: “Four.”" This was the Gawker editor who came up with the sex tape and story. This sums up the the anything goes interpretation of free speech these people have. (Although he…
i agree w this comment on twitter: Let's say that Thiel & Gawker is a match made in heaven.
Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with money to use said money to fight back legally. It's their freedom too.
Good point. This isn't an argument against your comment but I wonder, at which point does everyone exercising their freedoms become anarchy?
"Later asked by an attorney for Hogan if there was a situation in which a celebrity sex tape might not be newsworthy, Delaurio responded: “If they were a child.” The attorney then asked him to specify: a child under what age? Daulerio responded: “Four.”" This was the Gawker editor who came up with the sex tape and story. This sums up the the anything goes interpretation of free speech these people have. (Although he…