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I agree that we live in a country With a constitution that gives us free speech, but while we have the right to say something, that doesn't relieve us of the re
by Trisell 11y ago
I agree that we live in a country With a constitution that gives us free speech, but while we have the right to say something, that doesn't relieve us of the responsibility of what we say.
Gawker had every right to post this video, they also now have the full responsibility for the consequences. This case has established that you can still post sex tapes, but you now run the very real risk of loosing a lot in doing that.
This court case doesn't say you can't, it just says that doing it could be prohibitively expensive to do it.
- newjersey 11y agoSo obviously the next step is to form a shell company, put a sucker with no money in charge of it, incorporate that off shore, and host anything shady with them, not cooperate or collaborate with them wink wink (just like political candidates do not coordinate with superpacs wink wink). Everyone on the Internet from ACLU and EFF will rightly defend the right to link. Well, the sleazy tabloids will continue doing what they do. This is no win for privacy because it only protects those who are willing to go to court over this. Gawker is scum (particularly for doxxing people) but Hulk Hogan is no saint either. Edit: grammar and spelling
- jevinskie 11y agoAre rights that you have to pay a lot of money for really rights? See poll taxes. I'm not arguing either way about the current case in question.