Gawker shutting down

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Gawker calculated that there was no way that Hogan would be able to fight them through the courts, forgetting that they had previously made an enemy of an extremely rich and obviously obsessive man. They gambled and they lost and they don't deserve our pity even if the people who destroyed them are perhaps not terribly nice either.

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Nobody who's troubled by this is wallowing in pity for Gawker.

See that's not actually true is it? Besides while I agree that there are troubling aspects to what Thiel did, that was equally true of Gawker's actions. They tried to use the fundamental economic inequalities built into the US legal system as well, it's just that it blew up in their faces.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

If you had been paying any attention at all to this mess then you would know exactly to what I referred.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The main thing here is Gawker wasn't simply a "stupid tabloid". It was an EVIL site. It ruined lives and might've been responsible for at least one suicide.

Gawker wasn't just inane and low-brow, it was a destructive force of evil.

It also needs pointing out (endlessly until it sinks in) that in this very case Gawker tried to use the fundamental economic injustices built into the U.S.A. legal system to its own advantage, but that then things backfired rather dramatically. A pretty clear cut case of someone being hoisted by their own petard, frankly.