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>"Gawker wasn't speaking truth to power and criticizing individuals. Gawker posted an illegally obtained sex-tape. " Nice deflection! No one cared about the se
by criley2 10y ago
>"Gawker wasn't speaking truth to power and criticizing individuals. Gawker posted an illegally obtained sex-tape. "
Nice deflection! No one cared about the sex tape, they cared about the racist rant contained therein.
Tony did not sue Gawker because of a sex tape (although that was the vector Thiel's lawyers chose), he sued them for exposing a racist rant of his.
To claim that exposing his racist rant isn't criticizing a public individual is quite the massive deflection!!
- lhnz 10y agoThere wasn't a racist tirade in the video posted by Gawker. Your facts are wrong. The racist tirade was published by two completely different publications much later on by July 24, 2015. As far as I remember, by this point, Hogan had already been suing Gawker for releasing the sex tape for quite a while.
- jdminhbg 10y agoAs another poster noted, you have the facts backwards. Gawker posted the racist rant as retribution for Hogan's lawsuit. The sex tape was published because it was a sex tape of a famous person.