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The discussion isn't about Hulk Hogan v Gawker, it's Peter Thiel v Gawker, via Hulk Hogan. Thiel funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, for personal revenge.
by jonny_eh 7y ago
The discussion isn't about Hulk Hogan v Gawker, it's Peter Thiel v Gawker, via Hulk Hogan. Thiel funded Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, for personal revenge.
- googlebigdream 7y agoIt wasn't personal revenge it was personal information dummy. Could have been sensitive to him for any reason. He was outed as a gay
- defen 7y agoThe current societal standard seems to be "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences". I don't think it's possible to give a principled reason why "Peter Thiel funding a lawsuit" (which he won) is bad, but "advocating for someone to be fired for having a wrong/bad opinion" is good.
- DuskStar 7y agoPersonal revenge for outing him as gay while he was physically in Saudi Arabia, IIRC. Which I'd consider to be only half a step down from a murder attempt if it happened to me. (Of course, I'm not a billionaire, so there's a far higher chance that I'd actually end up dead in such a situation. But still)
- blaser-waffle 7y agoIt was a business meeting too -- great way of tanking that meeting. But yeah, being gay in Iran or Saudi has serious consequences. Plus Gawker, posing a progressive media outlet via organs like Jezebel, shouldn't be airing anyone dirty laundry like that -- and then they did, repeatedly.