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In the united states you can render somebody a paraplegic through deliberate negligence and you might be on the hook for as much as one-tenth of the amount that Gawker had to pay because people saw Hulk Hogan's tiny penis and heard his entirely too common lovely opinions about black people An ice cream company out in our region killed multiple people and they had to pay 1/115th of what hulk hogan was owed for the value of his tiny penis and people's perception of his status as a racist Mirthless has issued a correction as of 23:51 on Aug 23, 2016 |
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Mirthless posted:In the united states you can render somebody a paraplegic through deliberate negligence and you might be on the hook for as much as one-tenth of the amount that Gawker had to pay because people saw Hulk Hogan's tiny penis and heard his entirely too common lovely opinions about black people actually the latter part was never reported by Gawker during the case and was never part of the tape they reviewed. it was by all accounts something that the FBI found when they investigated the tape during the initial proceedings. it only came out after another media outlet published the excerpts, which was right after Gawker successfully sued the FBI for the full tape during discovery in the civil case. the judge ordered the tape to be sealed as evidence for the civil case in that ruling and uh, it somehow wasn't
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i think one of denton's contentions was that hogan didn't care about the sex tape but was sueing to keep the other parts of the tape hidden.
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exploding mummy posted:actually the latter part was never reported by Gawker during the case and was never part of the tape they reviewed. it was by all accounts something that the FBI found when they investigated the tape during the initial proceedings. hahahaha, oh my god, unbelievable so literally the only thing that was worth literally tens of millions of dollars was a dumb sex tape? Are you kidding me?
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Mirthless posted:An ice cream company out in our region killed multiple people and they had to pay 1/115th of what hulk hogan was owed for the value of his tiny penis and people's perception of his status as a racist you uh, realize that you're comparing apples to oranges right and a civil case award to a solitary fine issued by a department of health like by the time that Blue Bell is done, they'll have lost more in actual court cases and other fines Mirthless posted:hahahaha, oh my god, unbelievable There was some incredible math used to justify the figure, but the overall $140M was in excess of what Hogan was looking for and it was mostly because Gawker repeatedly shot themselves in the foot over the course of this entire series of events and looked like scummy sleazeballs the entire time.
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so your'e agreeing it's an insane amount
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pretty sure the jury decided on the 140m figure, not the Hulkster and Gawker got owned big because they were the most unsympathetic defendants since the Nuremberg war crime trials after WWII
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Karl Barks posted:so your'e agreeing it's an insane amount when did I say it wasn't but they jury decided on the figure, not Hogan. Hell, the jury gave Hogan $25M in punitive damages that he wasn't even seeking because Denton, Daulerio, and Gawker were gigantic douchenozzles.
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exploding mummy posted:when did I say it wasn't hmmmm
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I'm thinking Delaurio testifying that four years old was the age cutoff for posting sex tapes online *might* have influenced the jury's decision to kill Gawker with the damage award, rather than Peter Thiel's mind control rays. Denton's repeated insistance that posting sex tapes was a credible journalistic endeavor for Gawker might have also fueled that fire. If they had been the least bit sympathetic or apologetic the jury might have decided a penalty less than 'dismantle your whole loving douche company' would have been sufficient. But now the Hulkster can afford that genital reconstruction surgery hes always wanted to repair the steroid abuse damage, so that worked out for him I guess.
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Not a Step posted:I'm thinking Delaurio testifying that four years old was the age cutoff for posting sex tapes online *might* have influenced the jury's decision to kill Gawker with the damage award, rather than Peter Thiel's mind control rays. Denton's repeated insistance that posting sex tapes was a credible journalistic endeavor for Gawker might have also fueled that fire. If they had been the least bit sympathetic or apologetic the jury might have decided a penalty less than 'dismantle your whole loving douche company' would have been sufficient. that and the entire story about how they published the tape of someone getting raped and then ignored the victim and her family's pleas to take it down by telling them "that it wasn't a serious matter."
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http://adage.com/article/media/mind-peter-thiel-gawker-killed/305550/quote:Peter Thiel, backer of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit, which drove Gawker's parent company Gawker Media into bankruptcy, is responsible for Gawker's death -- that's the prevailing media narrative. ("Peter Thiel Just Got His Wish: Gawker Is Shutting Down" is how Wired put it.)
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I only trust journalists who get off sexually when in the presence of power, rather than exercising it themselves.
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Mirthless posted:In the united states you can render somebody a paraplegic through deliberate negligence and you might be on the hook for as much as one-tenth of the amount that Gawker had to pay because people saw Hulk Hogan's tiny penis and heard his entirely too common lovely opinions about black people labor health and safety regulations being 100 years out of date isn't an excuse for a tabloid garbage dump to get away with insisting that a sex tape is journalism. they aren't the only ones that deserve an organizational death penalty (penn state's football program still existing is bullshit) but that doesn't make it terrible that they actually received it and yes they certainly didn't help by being rampant, unapologetic smug shitheads about the entire affair. gently caress em
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I just remembered that Hulk Hogan is a union buster so my new take is that he deserved to have the sex tape leaked.
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adage is worth following if you want to see how the money flows. you'll find reports about "content deals" between publishers and companies (microsoft and conde nast for example) you're hard pressed to find anywhere else. the fact it's aimed at advertising professionals makes it gloat over stuff that usually gets buried in other outlets.
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the big brains have done it again http://motherboard.vice.com/read/legalist-is-automating-the-lawsuit-strategy-peter-thiel-used-to-kill-gawker
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Karl Barks posted:the big brains have done it again jesus christ it's predictit for lawsuits, with the share buy-ins funding the lawsuits this is legitimately distressing we've created an aggregator that lets people vote on who to sue and then get a cut of the proceeds
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I really enjoyed Gawker. I posted over there for a decade. I'm sorry to see it go. That's all I really got.Mirthless posted:jesus christ it's predictit for lawsuits, with the share buy-ins funding the lawsuits Keep in mind that Thiel is the same guy that wants to make SA's In Golden Waters.. a reality. TyroneGoldstein has issued a correction as of 12:25 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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i wish ashley feinberg would post a thing about how histrionically furious not a step is about gawker, but i don't think she knows this thread exists
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Im pretty much in meltdown 24/7 over Gawker. Youd think it would have gotten better after they got Hulk slammed but it really just made me realize I'll never be able to post the perfect tumblr blog that brings down the corrupt Gawker organization.
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Aug 25, 2016 14:48
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I hope billionaires stop being mean. (to the middle class)
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i dont give a poo poo about gawker but peter thiel is a literal bloodsucking capitalist vampire beast and him succeeding at anything is a severe detriment to humanity
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Sometimes two things that are independently bad fight, like Godzilla and King Ghidorah.
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Not a Step posted:Sometimes two things that are independently bad fight, like Godzilla and King Ghidorah. or cops and white supremacists
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been reading techcrunch since gawker is done and wow, silicon valley isn't all that bad guys! techcrunch does some very great native content 
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:i dont give a poo poo about gawker but peter thiel is a literal bloodsucking capitalist vampire beast and him succeeding at anything is a severe detriment to humanity I hope he succeeds at murdering himself.
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lol is pando paywall only now, wow
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Karl Barks posted:lol is pando paywall only now, wow oh ok read this instead I didn't know the random string did something
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quote:Let’s do our best to cover Silicon Valley power brokers, and invite those same powerbrokers (including Peter Thiel) to do their worst. Let’s remember those war correspondents who get shot at and the Russian authors who get poloniumed and the Mexican drug gang reporters who get beheaded and left at the side of the road. Or if we don’t want to be quite so dramatic, let’s think about the American whistleblowers who face jail or the political reporters who refuse to reveal their sources even when faced with a grand jury. And let’s consider ourselves unspeakably lucky that the worst thing tech reporters face is an angry libertarian with a Trump fetish coming after our kitchen appliances. oh hey I posted that good opinion thanks
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Most news media reads and posts poo poo like Gawker did. There will be no renaissance of the press lol Trump made himself an enemy to journalists, so now they're going to write like garbage for the next two months until the idiot loses. I fear its not going back even if Trump disappeared from our plane of reality November 9.
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i think pando really hated gawker because of these: http://valleywag.gawker.com/tag/pando-daily actually this is one of the posts that got me really into valleywag, about the author of the above post http://valleywag.gawker.com/pandodailys-threatening-email-meltdown-1149039909
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This whole "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic being employed to defend Gawker is intellectual laziness at its finest. Us doing something about drone strikes would appease Rand Paul, can't have that because Rand Paul is an rear end in a top hat, a-ruh-ruh-ruh.
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peter thiel loving owns, he destroyed gawker and he's making a bunch of millenial shitbags cry big salty bitch tears all over the internet (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Probably Magic posted:This whole "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic being employed to defend Gawker is intellectual laziness at its finest. It's not about defending gawker, it's about what peter thiel was able to do, how he was able to do it, and what that means for the future. Like, you are, at this moment, defending this. If you can read that and not get a chill up your spine you're one hard motherfucker because this scares the poo poo out of me. You're comparing an unfortunate invasion of somebody's privacy to remotely killing people with rockets and missiles, btw, what the gently caress is up with that?
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