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if i was in the habit of transfusing childrens blood into myself regularly i probably wouldn't promote that fact but maybe thats why peter thiel is a billionaire and i'm not
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he also thinks women and minorities shouldn't get to vote (and thinks democracy in general is a bad idea)
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Karl Barks posted:he also thinks women and minorities shouldn't get to vote (and thinks democracy in general is a bad idea) hell same
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Idgi how is Jay curlers wife relevant
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Enjoyed the Mozarella Sticks adventure god bless
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the 500th day of kristen landed on the day they got the final appeal rejection lol ediT: also totally forgot about this gem http://gawker.com/5556254/congratulations-rush-limbaugh
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man I'm loving terrified of the precedent this sets oh wait I'm not because the real precedent is "you'll get your rear end handed to you if you ignore a judge's order to take down a stolen sex tape and then declare you're willing to post video of a preteen having sex while under oath in a court of law"
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Violating court orders is bad, butKarl Barks posted:he also thinks women and minorities shouldn't get to vote (and thinks democracy in general is a bad idea) Is the...is the truth, finally, in the middle?
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:man I'm loving terrified of the precedent this sets Wtf hulk hogan was having sex with a preteen? I havent payed any attention to this
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This is just like jommy saville, everybody apparently knew then too, and theres been rumors for years. I always thought there was something off about hulk hogan
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mike12345 posted:what precedent? if you disgruntle your investors or people with the money to fight back, you'll get hosed. If you're a journalist in russia, you get killed; if you're working for Al Jazeera and want to make a feature about immigrant working conditions, you're out of a job. gawker became the victim of their own hubris, and forgot for a second they're still part of the same game. Gawker was no bastion of free speech or critical journalism, it was a cynical clickbait enterprise with an ethics schmethics attitude masquerading as edgy self-awareness. 
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Look its a public good to watch out of shape wrestlers gently caress their friends wives and complain about eating too much
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Peter Thiel is bad. Gawker was bad. Im glad one killed the other. I guess the lesson here is to not forcibly out a powerful billionaire gay man for shits and giggles because he will bide his time until you have another massive lapse in judgement and hypocritically host a celebrity sex tape and then fund that case in a court of law so that justice prevails instead of the usual outcome of the media conglomerate settling out of court or bankrupting the litigant. Truly, all news media that outs gays and hosts sex tapes is now at risk in this new dystopian future. Thanks Thiel. Thiel.
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Not a Step posted:Peter Thiel is bad. yeah or do anything else an insane billionaire might find objectionable, nbd no need to worry about that
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thiel also funded the suit against gawker from the guy who said he "invented email" which gawker challenged lol
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Badger of Basra posted:yeah or do anything else an insane billionaire might find objectionable, nbd no need to worry about that If by insane billionaire you mean 'any reasonable person' I guess. Gawker was poo poo and deserved death, and Im glad that for once a billionaire took a break from bathing in the blood of the poor and did something socially responsible with his money. And Id be way more sympathetic to the insane billionaire angle if Thiel had bought Gawker and killed it, or bought out the advertisers and run nothing but scat porn ads, or bought their web host and shut them down. Instead he funded an entirely reasonable case against Gawker that centered on Gawker being a trash outfit. Gawker could have avoided the whole thing by not hosting a celebrity sex tape without consent. 'Insane billionaire supports privacy against tabloid reporting' doesnt really sound that bad to be honest.
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something awful shut down after Peter thiel sues lowtax for allowing people to post death fantasies about him "Well I guess we should've respected our betters," say bad posters
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Oh no not my Internet forums!
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gawker deserved to be SHUTDOWN over a pro wrestler sex tape, NY times deserves praise as a Good Institution for bumbling us into the iraq war sidenote: gawker took down the video after the court order but left the post up
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I think the most disturbing thing about gawker being shutdown is learning that there are still a ton of man children around who love hulk hogan
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If Lowtax paid me to write death fantasies, published my death fantasies, and then defended my death fantasies as good posting and exactly the kind of thing he intended when creating SA then yeah, perhaps it would be legit to protest all the death fantasies. Especially if Lowtax was condemning the other death fantasies out there at the time as immoral and bad because they targeted the wrong sort of people.
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The NYT is the foulest propaganda institution ever conceived by man and I look forward to the day when it's editors are fed into the printing machines. That being said I pick up a copy whenever I get the chance because they are free on my campus. It's not that what they say is objectively wrong, it's more about what they don't say and about how they contextualize the information.
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The Kingfish posted:The NYT is the foulest propaganda institution ever conceived by man and I look forward to the day when it's editors are fed into the printing machines. That being said I pick up a copy whenever I get the chance because they are free on my campus. better get to it quick cause those printing machines won't be in use for much longer
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The New York Times is made of the finest printing paper ever conceived by man
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i dont really give a poo poo about gawker beyond the fact that feeling in one particular way about this whole thing would put me in agreement with Peter Thiel, and i dont believe i want to be in that situation
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Aug 23, 2016 16:30
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The Hulkster is a nazi
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macho man randy savage was way better anyways
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Slim Jims have never betrayed me. Unlike all those feather boas.
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Karl Barks posted:macho man randy savage was way better anyways At domestic abuse sure
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we joke but the whole thing is a another symptom of rich people having basically complete control over the legal system in a way that is hilariously scary 
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Its a symptom of how its improper to do what gawker did and if you act that way you might be sued.
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The Kingfish posted:Its a symptom of how its improper to do what gawker did and if you act that way you might be sued. thiel hired a very expensive law firm to shop around until they found a court and jury that they knew would rule in their favor. then they structured the suit so as to force gawker to be unable to settle for a reasonable amount or have their insurance company be able to pay for it. you think invasion of privacy of a very public figure is worth $140 million? i dunno about you but I wouldn't be able to do this
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Karl Barks posted:thiel hired a very expensive law firm to shop around until they found a court and jury that they knew would rule in their favor. then they structured the suit so as to force gawker to be unable to settle for a reasonable amount or have their insurance company be able to pay for it. you think invasion of privacy of a very public figure is worth $140 million? don't blame Thiel for your justice system being hosed
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I just dont sympathize with the people who hosted a sex tape against the wishes of the person in it and then defended it as good journalism. Maybe dont do that and then you will be less vulnerable to predatory lawsuits from the rich guy you forcibly outed also in the name of good journalism. The Gawker apologism is kind of weird. Do you guys defend the journalistic rights of Breitbart too?
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Karl Barks posted:we joke but the whole thing is a another symptom of rich people having basically complete control over the legal system in a way that is hilariously scary Well the judge and jury did what was expected, really. The real issue is that normal people could never afford to competently prosecute such a case. Money is the gatekeeper.
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