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In your example, you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government. You are also muddying
by maratd 10y ago
In your example, you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government.
You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than the individual. In the Gawker case, all the parties are pretty much at parity.
There has always been yellow journalism. Gawker isn't new. What is new is that this is the first time an establishment like that got a bloody nose. Usually they're the ones using the legal system to silence those they abuse.
- klagermkii 10y ago> you're conflating the actions of a government and the actions of a private individual. Peter Thiel isn't the government I don't think if it's government or individual it changes the inherent unfairness of having someone decide to watch you, and just you, for any sign of a slip up and then getting you punished based on it. Heck, I think most siblings understand this kind of unfairness with uneven parental justice. > You are also muddying up scale. In your example, the government is much more powerful than the individual. In the Gawker case, all the parties are pretty much at parity. There's an order of magnitude difference between the net worth of Thiel and Gawker as a whole. And that's on a good day for Gawker.
- EdHominem 10y agoThere's usually an order of magnitude difference between them and their victims. This time it went the other way.