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Were any of Gawker's satellites ever any good? Jalopnik and Kotaku were the only ones I ever really looked at more than once, since car people and gamers I know would link me to them now and then, and both were always garbage.
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Deadspin was reportedly pretty okay-alright, but I'd take that with a grain of salt.
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Deadspin was. It's still decent but it's nowhere near as good as it was under Will Leitch. Honestly, Drew Magary is the only reason to continue reading Deadspin at this point.
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Jezebel is a major website for the ministry of truth
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Gawker, pay denbts.
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As long as Jalopnik is safe, I don't care. I need my automotive fix.
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The beast is dead.
*single tear*
*single tear*
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I know nothing about the place, but if they're actually decent Gawker going down could mean the writers get the opportunity to bounce back and not be associated with journalistic cancer.
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Take note: When you're a jerk to everyone, people tend not to take your side in legal disputes.... there are SMART ways to be scummy, and sanctimonious self-defeating ways to be scummy, guess which kind incurs a nine-figure price tag?
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The case has a Wiki article, btw:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
It's a good place to get a rundown of the case, which started in 2013.
Again, this entire thing could have been avoided if they had just taken down the fucking video. They actually wrote an article called "A Judge Told Us to Take Down our Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post. We Won't." They were fucking bragging about it. I'm having trouble feeling sorry for Nick Denton when he could have axed this thing before it even started.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker
It's a good place to get a rundown of the case, which started in 2013.
Again, this entire thing could have been avoided if they had just taken down the fucking video. They actually wrote an article called "A Judge Told Us to Take Down our Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Post. We Won't." They were fucking bragging about it. I'm having trouble feeling sorry for Nick Denton when he could have axed this thing before it even started.
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Yeah, Nick's obviously the bad guy in this case. Seeing as the invasion of privacy, and then bragging about violating it on the internet (aka, a place where everyone can see) isn't the sign of a fucking saint. If anything, that may end up coming back to bite Denton and Co. even harder than this round come the end of the month. Assuming the judge brings that little incident up.
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Okay, I just read some of the comments on this article and the split is insane between the people who support or don't support Gawker. First is the "wtf r u doing" camp, which consists of most of the top-rated comments:
And then there's the MUH FREE SPEECH camp, who act like telling Gawker to take down a sex tape is on par with advocating North Korea-style censorship.
You know, they sound suspiciously like GamerGaters, which is hilarious.
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When this trial is a precedent for shutting down freedom of he press whenever they print anything Trump or Hillary doesn't like in a year or two I'll bump this thread and say "I told you so" and I bet you'll all feel pretty silly for cheerleading the death of journalistic freedom.
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tumblr also still exists.
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And once again, people seem to forget there are rational limits on First Amendment protections, it doesn't cover fraudulent statments, it doesn't cover yelling "FIRE" in a theatre, and it doesn't cover putting up something to embarrass someone that otherwise serves no public trust/good while at the same time, making you money. Who knew?
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That part was really stupid. Blowing off a C&D because you think you'll win a case is one thing. When there's an actual court order and you just say up yours, you can end up losing on contempt of court even if you would ultimately have otherwise won the case. In this case, you also end up with a furious judge who hates your guts.
The dickery didn't stop there, though. Once they were in front of a jury, they still kept on acting like arrogant scofflaw pricks.
Something about juries. They've been taken away from their jobs, their families, and their lives to listen to boring bullshit for days or even weeks on end. This can cost them thousands of dollars and they didn't even do anything wrong (other than not blow off a civic duty). They're taking the situation seriously.
So when the assholes who are responsible for them being there are flippant, rude dicks deliberately wasting their time, this is not going to make them happy with you.
Not saying they'd deliberately find you guilty of something just because they don't like you, but suppose your behavior really needs to be interpreted generously for you not to be guilty of something. Don't expect much generosity.
If it involves using stolen videos clandestinely taken of them having sex in their own private homes and that's the only informational content, it's not particularly valuable speech by even the most generous interpretation.
The court may have presided over an unfair trial or used improper legal principles in its decision making and then it should be reversed because of the legal principle, not because anyone is going to compare this shit to the Pentagon Papers.
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It is an interesting case of how living in an echo-chamber makes you lose perspective, they seemed to have honestly thought that their general response to people who don't like them in an online setting (ridicule and tell to get lost) would work in a highly-structured, opinion-sterilized offline social setting..... they really didn't seem to get that saying "LOLGTFO" in court wouldn't result in them winning.....
