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What "people like Epstein" was Gawker reporting on? Unfortunately I only know it from Theil-related stories, i.e. reporting that Theil is gay and the sex tape i

by tomp 7y ago

What "people like Epstein" was Gawker reporting on? Unfortunately I only know it from Theil-related stories, i.e. reporting that Theil is gay and the sex tape issue (neither of which seem "Epstein-worthy").

shredprez 7y ago
Here's an Epstein explainer they published in 2015: https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-his-famous-frie-1679246399 https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-h...
paganel 7y ago
Epstein himself, for once, and that would be enough. Also, one of their magazines/websites was reporting on some crazy parties, travel-trips and weddings carried out by SV owners, things that nowadays will definitely raise a few eyebrows in terms of economic inequality and conspicuous consumption, but those article were very badly received by the employees of those people the articles were writing about (so including people on this website) so that not a lot of tears were shed when Gawker went down. I’m not equaling Marie Antoinette-way of living to the despicable things Epstein did, I’m just saying that in today’s political climate it would have been very interesting to still have access to articles detailing how the Google or FB owners were throwing out their money.
- tomp 7y ago
  I don't really see a difference between "these evil rich people are spending money / living if ways that we don't approve" and "these evil rich people are having sex in ways we don't approve" (i.e. Thiel is gay!!!1). Both are a needless distraction from progress/living happily and encourage a hostile political climate.
losvedir 7y ago
Not so much "people like Epstein" but actually Epstein himself. To my understanding, Gawker (well, Nick Bryant really) was actually one of the few who actually reported on him in detail back in the day. E.g., here's this[0] from 2015. Some of the links are broken now so I can't link to other of Bryant's stories about it. [0] https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992 https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-eps...

by tomp 7y ago

shredprez 7y ago

Here's an Epstein explainer they published in 2015: https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-his-famous-frie-1679246399 https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-h...

paganel 7y ago

Epstein himself, for once, and that would be enough. Also, one of their magazines/websites was reporting on some crazy parties, travel-trips and weddings carried out by SV owners, things that nowadays will definitely raise a few eyebrows in terms of economic inequality and conspicuous consumption, but those article were very badly received by the employees of those people the articles were writing about (so including people on this website) so that not a lot of tears were shed when Gawker went down. I’m not equaling Marie Antoinette-way of living to the despicable things Epstein did, I’m just saying that in today’s political climate it would have been very interesting to still have access to articles detailing how the Google or FB owners were throwing out their money.

tomp 7y ago
I don't really see a difference between "these evil rich people are spending money / living if ways that we don't approve" and "these evil rich people are having sex in ways we don't approve" (i.e. Thiel is gay!!!1). Both are a needless distraction from progress/living happily and encourage a hostile political climate.

losvedir 7y ago

Not so much "people like Epstein" but actually Epstein himself. To my understanding, Gawker (well, Nick Bryant really) was actually one of the few who actually reported on him in detail back in the day. E.g., here's this[0] from 2015. Some of the links are broken now so I can't link to other of Bryant's stories about it. [0] https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-epsteins-little-b-1681383992 https://gawker.com/here-is-pedophile-billionaire-jeffrey-eps...