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Gawkers not going anywhere. The journalism itself will go on, the bad actors like Denton and that AJ prick are the ones who were most hurt by the lawsuit. Peter Thiel is one of the worst people on the planet, but I think the "this is very troubling" sentiment is overblown.

The Las Vegas paper story isn't a good analogy. That's 10x worse and probably shouldn't even be legal.


Here is the analogy. You have to vet your material through the super rich and connected.

But Gawker still isn't doing that. They are still running pieces mocking Thiel. That's why the analogy doesn't quite work and the sentiment with Gawker is overblown.

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he didn't sue them over nothing. You're forgetting that. They left themselves in a dumb position.

I am not forgetting that. I don't think Gawker is some bastion of great journalistic intent, but be careful what you wish for siding with a billionaire that wants to silence speech he doesn't like.


I think the more fucked up thing is that there are many people who aren't billionaires or don't have the backing of billionaires who had legitimate reasons to sue Gawker but lacked the resources to bump heads with them. I guess Gawker should have stuck to fucking with poor people.


Yep. It was not the girl's tape that brought them down. It took someone with resources. The rest of us are fair game.
What you seem to be ignoring here is that the ripple effect is that every company needs to be more careful about doing this with either the rich or the non-rich.

The ones who were also wronged by gawker are happy today. I don't think they are worried that a rich guy was behind it.

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he didn't sue them over nothing. You're forgetting that. They left themselves in a dumb position.

I am not forgetting that. I don't think Gawker is some bastion of great journalistic intent, but be careful what you wish for siding with a billionaire that wants to silence speech he doesn't like.


I think the more fucked up thing is that there are many people who aren't billionaires or don't have the backing of billionaires who had legitimate reasons to sue Gawker but lacked the resources to bump heads with them. I guess Gawker should have stuck to fucking with poor people.


Yep. It was not the girl's tape that brought them down. It took someone with resources. The rest of us are fair game.
What you seem to be ignoring here is that the ripple effect is that every company needs to be more careful about doing this with either the rich or the non-rich.

The ones who were also wronged by gawker are happy today. I don't think they are worried that a rich guy was behind it.

Exactly. Thiel will be more than happy to bankroll your lawsuit too Phil if Gawker posts a video of you fucking someone you shouldn't be.

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Exactly. Thiel will be more than happy to bankroll your lawsuit too Phil if Gawker posts a video of you fucking someone you shouldn't be.

Oh thank god for the benevolence of an idiot billionaire.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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he didn't sue them over nothing. You're forgetting that. They left themselves in a dumb position.

I am not forgetting that. I don't think Gawker is some bastion of great journalistic intent, but be careful what you wish for siding with a billionaire that wants to silence speech he doesn't like.
As long as the suit is valid, and this clearly was, then siding with a billionaire isn't bad.


It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move as Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.

And given the state of most media companies now it would not take must more than a threat to back off.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Phil McCracken wrote:
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he didn't sue them over nothing. You're forgetting that. They left themselves in a dumb position.

I am not forgetting that. I don't think Gawker is some bastion of great journalistic intent, but be careful what you wish for siding with a billionaire that wants to silence speech he doesn't like.


I think the more fucked up thing is that there are many people who aren't billionaires or don't have the backing of billionaires who had legitimate reasons to sue Gawker but lacked the resources to bump heads with them. I guess Gawker should have stuck to fucking with poor people.


Yep. It was not the girl's tape that brought them down. It took someone with resources. The rest of us are fair game.
What you seem to be ignoring here is that the ripple effect is that every company needs to be more careful about doing this with either the rich or the non-rich.

The ones who were also wronged by gawker are happy today. I don't think they are worried that a rich guy was behind it.


Who defines "careful with what they are doing"? Clearly, it's going to be billionaires.

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It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.


If the suit is valid depends entirely on the jury at the time. And as I said it would not even take valid suits at this point because most media companies are not in the position to fight.

An entire media company was shutdown by a couple of bad actors at one of several different divisions because it made the wrong person mad. Yay. Free press.

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WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
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It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.


If the suit is valid depends entirely on the jury at the time. And as I said it would not even take valid suits at this point because most media companies are not in the position to fight.

An entire media company was shutdown by a couple of bad actors at one of several different divisions because it made the wrong person mad. Yay. Free press.
This was a valid suit. Agree or disagree?

If agree, end of discussion. If disagree, explain why.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.


If the suit is valid depends entirely on the jury at the time. And as I said it would not even take valid suits at this point because most media companies are not in the position to fight.

An entire media company was shutdown by a couple of bad actors at one of several different divisions because it made the wrong person mad. Yay. Free press.
This was a valid suit. Agree or disagree?

If agree, end of discussion. If disagree, explain why.


It's not the end of discussion because you deem it to be so based on the "validity" of the suit. Even if the lawsuit was "valid" I don't believe that the entire company should have been destroyed as a result.

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Sounds like you think it is valid.

Unless you are saying it is wrong for someone to contribute to a fund to help with valid lawsuits, and I doubt you are, then the conversation begins and ends with that. It doesn't matter if the person is poor or rich.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/peter-thiel-the-online-privacy-debate-wont-end-with-gawker.html?smid=tw-share

Thiel sums it all up perfectly here. Gawker kept on gambling and lost when someone who was finally bigger and stronger than them came around.


"Why Peter Thiel Suing Gawker Is Actually Good," by Peter Thiel

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/opinion/peter-thiel-the-online-privacy-debate-wont-end-with-gawker.html?smid=tw-share

Thiel sums it all up perfectly here. Gawker kept on gambling and lost when someone who was finally bigger and stronger than them came around.


"Why Peter Thiel Suing Gawker Is Actually Good," by Peter Thiel

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he didn't sue them over nothing. You're forgetting that. They left themselves in a dumb position.

I am not forgetting that. I don't think Gawker is some bastion of great journalistic intent, but be careful what you wish for siding with a billionaire that wants to silence speech he doesn't like.


I think the more fucked up thing is that there are many people who aren't billionaires or don't have the backing of billionaires who had legitimate reasons to sue Gawker but lacked the resources to bump heads with them. I guess Gawker should have stuck to fucking with poor people.


That is where my head was.

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WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
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It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.


If the suit is valid depends entirely on the jury at the time. And as I said it would not even take valid suits at this point because most media companies are not in the position to fight.

An entire media company was shutdown by a couple of bad actors at one of several different divisions because it made the wrong person mad. Yay. Free press.



That is not true at all. Well before a jury takes it a set of reviews and motions are done before a judge to determine standing and merit.

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pittmike wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
It was not Thiel's suit. He backed Hogan. Here is why it is troubling. What if the Kochs are mad at say Mother Jones or someone else? They could pull the same move and Thiel and back any type of lawsuit against the company. There is a clear playbook now on how the ultra-rich can go after their media critics.
If the suit is valid who cares?

Anyone, rich or non-rich helping finance valid lawsuits is not a problem.


If the suit is valid depends entirely on the jury at the time. And as I said it would not even take valid suits at this point because most media companies are not in the position to fight.

An entire media company was shutdown by a couple of bad actors at one of several different divisions because it made the wrong person mad. Yay. Free press.



That is not true at all. Well before a jury takes it a set of reviews and motions are done before a judge to determine standing and merit.


Valid as in what the suit alleges is true depends on the jury.

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Martes gigante! Univision pays $140 mil for all Gawker media properties, $50 mil over Ziff-Davis' rumored initial bid

http://www.recode.net/2016/8/16/1250400 ... 35-million
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Martes gigante! Univision pays $140 mil for all Gawker media properties, $50 mil over Ziff-Davis' rumored initial bid

http://www.recode.net/2016/8/16/1250400 ... 35-million

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Sounds like Univision doesn't want Gawker.com. :lol:

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that doesn't make any sense. even if Univision doesn't wanna go forward with gawker.com and gawker branding--cuz of lawsuit pr or whatever--they still take the domain and control it. auto-redirect it to whatever global landing page they move to for the former gawker properties.

last thing you do is throw the gawker.com domain back into the BR trust and let someone else come along, scoop it up for peanuts and then hijack all that traffic to their own content.
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:alien:

Maybe Deadspin can be great again.

This really is the best of all outcomes. Gawker and Denton get destroyed. The rest of them can live on.

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If Jezebel and Gizmodo meet similar fates I wont complain either. Deadspin is really the only site that deserves to live on.
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If Jezebel and Gizmodo meet similar fates I wont complain either. Deadspin is really the only site that deserves to live on.

All the blogs except Gawker itself will continue.

The real reason Univision killed gawker.com is probably that it's redundant with that Fusion site of theirs that no one reads.

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Whether you loved Gawker or hated it, we can all agree on one thing: billionaires deciding what media outlets are allowed to say, is Very Good



Really, Dave, do you think that's what happened here? Is it better when Denton is the rich guy running over a poor college student?

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