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It worked swimmingly for Gawker.
by kyleblarson 8y ago
It worked swimmingly for Gawker.
- favorited 8y agoWho did Gawker blackmail?
- krackers 8y agoNot blackmail, but outed Thiel
- crazypyro 8y agoAnd seemingly created an enemy so powerful he destroyed their entire business.
- philipov 8y agoThat's the joke. Sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet.
- EGreg 8y agoHow did he do it
- crazypyro 8y agoIf you are seriously interested, Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit surrounding his sex tape and the resulting judgement forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy and end up selling for basically nothing.
- simula67 8y agoGawker destroyed themselves
- nullc 8y agoGawker was extremely and unrepentantly unethical. They destroyed themselves.
- CalChris 8y agoOuting is like revealing a trade secret. Once the trade secret is publicly known it is no longer a trade secret. However that reveal was on Thiel.
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- Jaepa 8y agoGawker never tried to extort Thiel, they just published their story. Nor did they have a history on sealing or using these stories as leverage. Pretty well summaries in the 1st third: > “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption,” Mr. Bezos wrote of A.M.I., explaining why he had decided to speak out. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out.”
- CydeWeys 8y agoThat may have been what gained them their enemy, but what actually destroyed them was what they did to Hulk Hogan -- they did what the National Enquirer is currently only threatening to do.
- bko 8y agoThey also refused a court order to remove the video: > Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments. Here is why we are refusing to comply. https://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088 https://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hog...
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