How can they publish photos which they don't own the copyrights?
No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
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#52This title should probably be changed to something useful. There is no indication of what it might be in the original title.
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#53I respect him even more now.
We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime.
We should be much more focused on the existential threats that the entire biosphere is dealing with, not the 'dick pics' of the world's richest man. He's just another dude at his core it seems, happens to be founder of Amazon though.
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#54"proceed with whatever budget he needed to pursue the facts in this matter" That's the richest guy in the world saying "I don't give a XXXX what it costs, find out who did it." It's also the moment in your life when, if you get the result that guys wants, he'll be glad to write you a cheque for $20,000,000 and will be happy to do so and he won't be interested in why the number is that high.
I'm getting strong vibes of Thiel and Gawker here. Attempting to intimidate a billionaire is generally a poor decision.
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#55Wonder what the Saudi connection is...
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#56Granted, this strategy is very high risk unless you're one of the richest people in the world.
Unless he's proud of his body, and either doesn't care or feels positively about strangers looking at it.
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#57Whatever you think about Jeff, this is the correct way to handle such things. We should all have the same character in such a situation (despite how the situation arose; in this case via an affair). Jeff has MANY other issues of moral disfortitude (we all do to some degree, though not at these scales). However, this particular event is to be applauded and emulated.
Agree, good for him!
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#58I am glad that Jeff Bezos is aggressively going after AMI for their scummy behavior. I was also glad that Peter Thiel aggressively went after Gawker Media for their scummy behavior. Sometimes these badly behaving media outlets need to have a billionaire personally invested in stopping their bad behavior.
Gawker didn't try to extort Hulk Hogan or Peter Thiel. The situations aren't comparable.
No, they went right ahead and published revenge porn.
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#59He chose Medium. @ev is 3 out of 3 (and a podcast pivot).
I mean, that is if Medium doesn't run out of money in the next ~18 months. It's been a savage series of pivots to get to here, and even then, I'm not sure if it's actually sustainable.
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#60I am glad that Jeff Bezos is aggressively going after AMI for their scummy behavior. I was also glad that Peter Thiel aggressively went after Gawker Media for their scummy behavior. Sometimes these badly behaving media outlets need to have a billionaire personally invested in stopping their bad behavior.
Gawker didn't try to extort Hulk Hogan or Peter Thiel. The situations aren't comparable.
From the article:
>I didn’t know much about most of that a few weeks ago when intimate texts messages from me were published in the National Enquirer. I engaged investigators to learn how those texts were obtained, and to determine the motives for the many unusual actions taken by the Enquirer. As it turns out, there are now several independent investigations looking into this matter.
AMI showed up on Bezos's rader after they published his intimate text messages. Gawker showed up on Thiel's radar after they outed him. They both then went investigating to see if there was some illegal activity that these media companies were engaged in.