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Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with mo
by gonmf 10y ago
Gawker are scum. They disobeyed a court order. They deserved the lawsuit. If you want freedom of speech to out people and attack everyone, expect people with money to use said money to fight back legally. It's their freedom too.
- Razengan 10y agoGood point. This isn't an argument against your comment but I wonder, at which point does everyone exercising their freedoms become anarchy?
- someguydave 10y ago'anarchy' and 'civil lawsuits' seem to be very distant ideas
- arielm 10y agoGiven that all of this took place legally in a courtroom I don't think anarchy should be an issue now or in the future.
- internaut 10y agoThat an assault on the Tribe is always internally perceived as wild unsubstantiated attacks void of reason (i.e. the anarchy) is kind of interesting in of itself. I mean we all know conservatives and liberals don't understand each other and talk a different language but there's something interesting here to unpack. Instead of developing a Babelfish (realtime universal language translator) for ordinary languages, imagine if we could slip a little yellow fish into the ears of liberals and conservatives so they fully comprehended what the others were saying to them. I imagine their heads would explode. But assuming they did not it would be interesting.
- NEDM64 10y agoExactly. If anything, this is not a problem of freedom of speech. This is an old legal problem: "the rich have money to pay the lawyers and the poor don't". But in this case, Hulk Hogan is 100% right, and Thiel is doing society a favor.
- arielm 10y agoI completely agree and don't get why so many people are so grossly upset. Peter Thiel didn't use his money to bribe anyone, he didn't do anything illegal for Hulk. The court made a decision and Gawker needs to live with the consequences...
- internaut 10y agoIt's all about one word. Tribalism. A lot of people feel Gawker was a member of their tribe. It's the old "He's a bastard, but he's our bastard" thing.
- arielm 10y agoI guess. Until Gawker finds something juicy on them...
- khattam 10y ago>I completely agree and don't get why so many people are so grossly upset. Because they are regressive libtards. There is no other explanation.