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To modify a quote from The Dark Knight: "Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington
by FreedomToCreate 8y ago
To modify a quote from The Dark Knight:
"Let me get this straight, you think one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, who owns the Washington Post and pays out of his own pocket to send rockets to space, won't stand up for himself so your plan is to blackmail this person?
Good Luck
- kyleblarson 8y agoIt worked swimmingly for Gawker.
- favorited 8y agoWho did Gawker blackmail?
- krackers 8y agoNot blackmail, but outed Thiel
- crazypyro 8y agoAnd seemingly created an enemy so powerful he destroyed their entire business.
- philipov 8y agoThat's the joke. Sarcasm doesn't work well on the Internet.
- EGreg 8y agoHow did he do it
- crazypyro 8y agoIf you are seriously interested, Peter Thiel funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit surrounding his sex tape and the resulting judgement forced Gawker to declare bankruptcy and end up selling for basically nothing.
- simula67 8y agoGawker destroyed themselves
- nullc 8y agoGawker was extremely and unrepentantly unethical. They destroyed themselves.
- CalChris 8y agoOuting is like revealing a trade secret. Once the trade secret is publicly known it is no longer a trade secret. However that reveal was on Thiel.
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- Jaepa 8y agoGawker never tried to extort Thiel, they just published their story. Nor did they have a history on sealing or using these stories as leverage. Pretty well summaries in the 1st third: > “Of course I don’t want personal photos published, but I also won’t participate in their well-known practice of blackmail, political favors, political attacks and corruption,” Mr. Bezos wrote of A.M.I., explaining why he had decided to speak out. “I prefer to stand up, roll this log over and see what crawls out.”
- CydeWeys 8y agoThat may have been what gained them their enemy, but what actually destroyed them was what they did to Hulk Hogan -- they did what the National Enquirer is currently only threatening to do.
- bko 8y agoThey also refused a court order to remove the video: > Yesterday the Hon. Pamela A.M. Campbell, a circuit court judge in Pinellas County, Fla., issued an order compelling Gawker to remove from the internet a video of Hulk Hogan fucking his friend's ex-wife, as well as a 1,400-word narrative of the video written by former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio and 466 user-submitted comments. Here is why we are refusing to comply. https://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-po-481328088 https://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hog...
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- aerovistae 8y agoSame thing I was thinking. That said, I hate the National Enquirer and I am praying this leads to their destruction. On a tangentially related note I also believe there ought to be laws restricting paparazzi from harassing people. I think it's awful every time I see someone trying to walk down the street or out of a hospital or courthouse and swarmed by cameras that won't leave them alone even in moments of grief. They're people. I don't understand why it's considered perfectly acceptable to treat them that way just because they've become well-known. Just a thought connected to my disdain for tabloids.
- gesman 8y agoRegulation is required. Otherwise destroying 1 paparazzi or 1 tabloid will make another 5 pop up in their place.
- aerovistae 8y agoPartially agreed. Journalism should always be unregulated, but justice should act faster and be more reliable when journalism strays to evil. I wish there was any way for the commoners to make public policy proposals. Imagine like a reddit for discussion of policy, but where the most upvoted things actually got looked at by people in decision-making positions. It's very frustrating to me that I sometimes see really deep, interesting analysis of issues (and actual back-and-forth exchanges!) on reddit and never any such thing from actual politicians. Look at this thread here~ [0] Honestly insightful and meaningful discourse that anyone can participate in. They took what sounded on the surface like a great idea and pointed out critical flaws, and suggested superior alternatives. The constructiveness of the thread astounds me. I wish this type of thing actually connected to the government somehow, like in Ender's Game where Ender's siblings construct internet aliases and join policy conversations, slowly gaining influence and popularity through their rhetoric and insight. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aicgpz/serious_americans_would_you_be_in_support_of/?st=jrvdhxme&sh=c07361aa https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aicgpz/serious_a...
- killjoywashere 8y ago
- empath75 8y agoThey’re hosted on aws, too.
- rajacombinator 8y agoKeep in mind the people on the other side of this, according to Bezos, are the Saudis. I’d bet on their luck over his.
- killjoywashere 8y agoThe Saud family won't spend a dime on this. What do you do with a dangerously incompetent employee? You fire them.