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[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 months ago

They didn't care that a billionaire found a way to destroy a media outlet that told people something about him that he didn't want them to know.

Kind of a serious thing, for some people, to want quiet. What was the Gawker lawsuit over?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

They released the secret recording of him saying the racist thing above without anyone's permission. Which is an absolutely shitty thing to do. But Thiel saw it as an in and paid for the best lawyers he could find and took them down.

Should they have been taken down for it anyway? Maybe. But not because of Peter Thiel.

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

I've never watched it, but I feel like outing a gay man and revenge porn fall into the "bad action" category, despite them being pieces of shit.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Maybe, but Thiel didn't sue them for outing him. He bankrolled someone else's suit because he knew it would be much more damaging. And that is not how the system should work.

[-] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

I thought he bankrolled hogan to out them for exposing his dick, though. I may be wrong.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The lawsuit that killed gawker was the hulk sex tape that they refused to take down. They were 100% wrong on that one.

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