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[–] 69 points 1 year ago (7 children)

“Hard cases make bad laws”

Whatever one thinks of Gawker, its demise is a footnote next to the precedent it set in muzzling investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Haha, "investigative journalism that discomfits the powerful" doesn't include publishing a sex tape that was taken without a person's knowledge. Gawker got what was coming to it.

    Here's a thought experiment: if it was Chyna who was secretly recorded having sex and had that published in 2012, would you be so dismissive of it?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't remember if they published the ACTUAL sex tape and I assume I would have intentionally refused to look then like I do now.

    Posting non-consensual media of sexual activity is wrong, full stop.

    Posting the AUDIO of that? yeah, if Joanie were dropping n-bombs and being hateful I would be all for a tabloid rag to ruin her (already pretty ruined by WWE and Paul "HH Helmsely" Levesque) life over that.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Gawker got shutdown because they called Peter Theil gay. The rest is just window-dressing.

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