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Right, ask selfless Eric Schmidt, he'll tell you.

on no issue, including net neutrality, is it believable that 99% were in favor...sounds wrong.

Elections in North Korea — and in Saddam Hussein's Iraq — were "won" with the winners getting not the measly 99%, but the nice and round 100% of the vote.

But that's nothing compared to a feat Putin has once accomplished — winning 146% of the vote...

Simply put, as Stalin once said it, "those who vote do not matter — those who count the votes matter". If it is the Vice (or a "researcher" Vice found acceptable) counting, 99.7% may be too low. Indeed, according to TFA, he accepted only 800K out 22 million (merely 3.6%!) of the comments — dismissing the other 96% as "noise".

What exactly was his methodology and could it, possibly, have been biased against those supporting the abolition?..

"New evidence Sony hack was ‘inside’ job, not North Korea" https://nypost.com/2014/12/30/...

New Research Blames Insiders, Not North Korea, for Sony Hack http://time.com/3649394/sony-h...

Researcher: Sony Hack Was Likely an Inside Job by a Woman Named "Lena" http://gawker.com/researcher-s...



So no boys and girls this was not North Korea. This is an attempt by the Military Industrial Complex to gin up tensions with North Korea in order to prevent detente. Because you know war is profitable but peace is not. Stocks for military contracts took a tumble when the US was negotiating with North Korea.

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg in one of the instant messages, first published by former Valleywag Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider, and now confirmed by Zuckerberg himself in Jose Antonio Vargas's New Yorker piece.


http://gawker.com/5636765/face...
Who's laughing now douchelord?

It has been here for a while. Been through a lot of resistance.... and tragedy. http://gawker.com/5859366/why-...

I'm partial to Fuckface von Clownstick, myself.

So Thiel's great sin was not coming round to supporting gay marriage as opposed to civil partnerships quickly enough.

Yea, oddly enough. Should I bring up supporting the Nazis at this point? There's something inherently wrong about supporting certain things at certain times. 1930 Germany? You were naive to what Nazis were. 1940 Germany? Yea, you're an asshole. By the same token, just because Obama doesn't personally support gay marriage, his constituents did and he supported the new political reality. Hell, if you're going to bring up really atrocious things, bring up how Abraham Lincoln supported slavery right until pretty deep into the Civil War. That's 1940 Germany Nazi [finally] opposition when it was 1939 Germany Nazism for over a century.

So clearly he has to be outed and shamed publicly.

Actually, if you Read the story, it's clear it was not meant to shame Thiel. It was meant to financially ruin him as a VC because VCs in the area he operated in are homophobes. Put another way, it's only shaming if the people he worked with that it was shameful. That's ironic, to me, given VCs are supposed to be money-centric assholes who give no shits about who or what you are.

After all we can't have those filthy homos straying off the vote plantation and thinking they're allowed to not change their opinion when the Democrats tell them to.

If by "Democrats" you mean all "those [other] filthy homos" who were for gay marriage, then yes. Thiel was on the side of slavery while being a slave or being a fan of Nazism while being a Jew. Most importantly, he was financially backing his anti-gay marriage agenda through, in part if not in whole, his VC work. So, oddly enough, attacking his ability to mobilize the minority that were against gay marriage was seen as a valid tactic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm speaking with a great deal of hyperbole here. But your responsible seems equally as ludicrous, ignoring that Thiel was rather open for a closet gay. Maybe he pointed at his anti-gay marriage thing as proof to validate himself to the homophobic bigots? Maybe he's a Christian like Obama and didn't personally support gay marriage; others here have posted similarly because they don't like marriage as a government-backed, religious-based institution. And Thiel certainly has ever right to support his own agenda. That always comes at the risk as a public figure of being outed for various other beliefs and traits you have.

At least argue that Gawker lied or twisted the facts. If all that's left is that Thiel felt ashamed of being gay or it hurt him with his VC buddies, well it sucks to be him. If those things are truly the case, maybe should get some therapy and work with different people.

The same basic concerns are the same as at the beginning of this process. On the one hand, Gawker was terrible, and we haven't really lost much by losing them. On the other hand, a world where billionaires can functionally drive media sources into bankruptcy by proxy lawsuits is potentially incredibly chilling on free speech. And in the case of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, the jury should at least have been made aware that Hogan was being bankrolled by Thiel (since it goes to Hogan's credibility and sincerity as a witness), although I imagine that that wouldn't have actually impacted that decision at all since Gawker's behavior was unambiguously terrible. But, a general rule that people should have to disclose in a lawsuit when they are being paid by someone else to run it isn't crazy.

Also the idea that Gawker didn't know why Thiel doesn't like them( as sort of implied in the summary) is ridiculous. Thiel doesn't like Gawker because they wrote articles outing him as gay and then repeatedly writing more articles with it in the headline: http://gawker.com/335894/peter-thiel-is-totally-gay-people.

Ignoring a judge's order to take down a sex tape isn't a very good idea

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...

It's also hypocritical given they'd earlier criticised people for not taking down Jennifer Lawrence's nudes. Jezebel and Gawker were both owned by Gawker Media.

https://imgur.com/a/ULIA4

Gawker pissed of Thiel by running this

http://gawker.com/335894/peter...

Apparently they outed him when he was on a business trip to Saudi Arabia.

So Thiel backed Hogan's lawsuit, and that bankrupted Gawker media.

Ignoring a judge's order to take down a sex tape isn't a very good idea

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...

It's also hypocritical given they'd earlier criticised people for not taking down Jennifer Lawrence's nudes. Jezebel and Gawker were both owned by Gawker Media.

https://imgur.com/a/ULIA4

Gawker pissed of Thiel by running this

http://gawker.com/335894/peter...

Apparently they outed him when he was on a business trip to Saudi Arabia.

So Thiel backed Hogan's lawsuit, and that bankrupted Gawker media.

The potential risk of copycat incidents after celebrity cases is known to public health bodies.

I got a boobjob after Lindsay Lohan got one. Then I became a drug addict and alcoholic so I could go through treatment like .... well, like everyone. Then I caught cancer so I could be like Larry King, and others. Then I died so I could be like Prince. Then I resurrected so I could be like Elvis. Let me tell you, the copycat lifestyle takes a lot of commitment.

Also, your link implies that the cameras use local storage

Not for very long. As soon as a smart criminal or two take the recorder along with the driver's money at the end of a ride, the next generation of such cameras will be hailing "instant uploading of videos to the cloud". And the cabbies will upgrade. They are upgrading already — credit card acceptance by taxis is rising. Though cash still remains an option, that too may be on its way out.

BTW, cities like New York have required data-collection from taxis for years — and now require the same from Uber/Lyft as well. Scandals like this will, no doubt, happen again.

At any rate, I can accept the opposition based on privacy — even if I still think, you are naive, if you think, paying cash in a taxi is substantially beneficial to your privacy. But anything based on the supposed "illegality" of Uber/Lyft is just nonsense.

And taxi companies are taxi companies -- they're not into selling your data to marketeering filth

Unless you turn off and disable your smart phone, when you enter a cab, tracking you personally is already easy — and will become more so, when the new generation of taxi equipment is adopted. To Uber, Lyft, or traditional taxis (as well as to any retailer, policeman, or passer-by) the WiFi and Bluetooth radios in your phone already uniquely identify you... Crap, it is already happening.

May as well ride Lyft and save money...

Yeah, it turns out running this story was not a good idea

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...

Who'd have thought that contempt of court could turn the judiciary against you and get you nailed for crippling damages when someone whose privacy your tabloid bullshit has violated sues you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

If anything, it's Salon's, The Verge's, Vox's and other right-wing Dem blogs

FTFY. It's right-wing Democrats who keep fucking the chicken of identity politics to distract from the fact that their party is frequently more extreme than the GOP. Any time Obama stabbed a part of his base in the back, every time news broke of Hillary's corruption/incompetence/hypocrisy...out comes the identity politics club to bash their fellow right wingers (but who wear the R label) for partisan gain and to beat their base into meek compliance.

"Mark Zuckerberg admits in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information. A youthful indiscretion, the Facebook founder says he's much more mature now, at the ripe age of 26." http://gawker.com/5636765/face...

http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Unless we get a hold on this stupidity, the next step will be calling for the death of the others.

It's basically already happening.

While that seems a little tongue in cheek, I'll accept it. I'll note that it calls for arrests, not killing deniers. Regardless, it is monumentally stupid. Just so we are completely fair and balanced balanced I'll give a link on the other end. http://www.danablankenhorn.com...

Or conservative touchstone and purveyor of truth Andrew Breitbart: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmo...

Unless we get a hold on this stupidity, the next step will be calling for the death of the others.

It's basically already happening.

They're trying to kill chart brut... and then all of us!

I feel so bad... so terrible... for a magazine that outed gay men, and leaked people's private sexual activities.

When "Gawker"--a universally hated organization among journalists and human beings--are "The good guys", it's pretty easy to call bullshit on the entire thesis of the documentary. What's next? Saying pedophiles are just misunderstood?

http://gawker.com/5941037/born...

Oh.... shit.

• [2017] Homebuilders sue Zillow
• [2017] Blockbuster $8M+ Verdict Against Zillow for Copyright Infringement of Real Estate Photos
• [2015] Zillow copyright suit challenges fate of sold listing photos
• [2014] Zillow Accused of Subjecting Female Employees to "Sexual Torture"

No, you're wrong.

Amazon is a public company, with stock traded on NASDAQ. Ownership is over 63% institutional. Jeff Bezos is the Chariman, President, CEO, and a large stockholder, but by no means "owns" Amazon.

The Washington Post is a privately held company, which Jeff Bezos purchased through a holding company (Nash Holdings, LLC) for $250 million in 2013. Yes, he indirectly "owns" The Washington Post.

Your descriptions of writing off of losses from WP to cover gains from Amazon is grossly inaccurate and ignorant of how business structures and taxes work in the United States.

That's nice. How about looking at some real world data:

http://gawker.com/5797381/spoi...

"One sergeant with a base salary of $81,683 collected $114,334 in overtime and $8,648 in bonuses last year, and he's not even the highest paid."

$81k base + $114k overtime + $8k bonus = $203k

Oh and not every prison guard lives in Bay area.

Reminds me of the butter crisis in Norway a few years ago, the neighboring country Sweden would have Swedes smuggle butter into Norway and actually sell these for as much as 1.000 NOK (roughly 116 USD) per half kilo. Don't believe it? Well - check out the sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , http://gawker.com/5869463/norw...

There is associative risk. How likely is a drone crashing into someones head likely to blind them. How far out of control could drones become. Keep in mind http://gawker.com/remote-contr.... So you are playing with a flying blender and as there is insuficient in defining the nature of the blades (hardness, sharpness, speed of rotation) and how will those blades are protected (to ensure inquisitive fingers or accidental eye balls, do not come in contact with the spinning blades).

So how fair are probability out comes. Some one dies, some one else losses their eyes, a car pool mum with a load of kids crashes, when it is you that is impacted playing with a toy versus when it is you impacted with death, blindness or loss of a child. You know it will happen, all of the above, just how often is the measure and you can reduce the incidence with regulation and penalties.

Drones for public sale to individuals without full training and licences, used in unregulated public spaces, should fit in the palm of your hand and weigh no more than a small bird. After all people do stress out about large birds, http://www.magpiealert.com/, and if that is considered a threat should no toys to be played with by children be designed as less of a threat to reduce the number of incidences (wont eliminate them, so suck up the probabilities, some idiot could blind you and there is nothing, not one thing you can do to stop it happening, just probability outcomes over time and idiots).

Lul. You do realize that picture is completely real, the person has been identified as an...ummm..."enthusiast" for this type of thing, and many, many more pictures of him doing similar things exist?

http://gawker.com/finding-goatse-the-mystery-man-behind-the-most-disturb-5899787

I have seen people on slashdot accuse you of rape too. Does that make it a fact? Watch, I'll add another: PopeRatzo raped me. Boom! Fact.

Funny thing about the internet. You can check whether stuff has been reported before.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
http://fusion.net/story/328522...
http://gawker.com/the-time-don...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
http://www.inquisitr.com/36114...
http://time.com/4572925/megyn-...
http://www.rollingstone.com/po...
http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/1...

There. That oughtta do it.

Now, where is the evidence that PopeRatzo raped you?

Honestly, the FBI, seems to have a knack for being left a bread crumb and thinking they have found the culprit. Heck, more recent revelations about N. Korea's internet network has cast doubt as to whether it could of even handled the quantities of data in a timely fashion.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://gawker.com/a-lot-of-sma...

Per Wiki
Doubts about accusations against North Korea[edit]

Members of the press and various cybersecurity experts have expressed doubt about the claims that North Korea was behind the hack. Cyber security experts, independently analyzing the hack separately from the FBI—including Kurt Stammberger from cyber security firm Norse,[86][87] DEFCON organizer and Cloudflare researcher Marc Rogers,[88] Hector Monsegur,[89] and Kim Zetter, a security journalist at Wired magazine[90]—have tended to agree that North Korea might not be behind the attack.

Michael Hiltzik, a Los Angeles Times journalist, said that all evidence against North Korea was "circumstantial" and that some cybersecurity experts were "skeptical" about accusations against the government.[91] Cybersecurity expert Lucas Zaichkowsky said, "State-sponsored attackers don't create cool names for themselves like 'Guardians of Peace' and promote their activity to the public."[92] Kim Zetter of Wired magazine called released evidence against the government "flimsy".[93] Former hacker Hector Monsegur, who once hacked into Sony, explained to CBS News that exfiltrating one or one hundred terabytes of data would have taken months or years, not weeks, "without anyone noticing". Monsegur doubted the accusations due to North Korea's possibly insufficient infrastructure to handle much data. He believed that it could have been either Chinese, Russian, or North Korean sponsored hackers working outside of the country, but most likely to be the deed of a Sony employee.[94]

Stammberger provided to the FBI Norse's findings that suggest the hack was an inside job, stating, "Sony was not just hacked; this is a company that was essentially nuked from the inside. We are very confident that this was not an attack master-minded by North Korea and that insiders were key to the implementation of one of the most devastating attacks in history."[95] Stammberger believes that the security failure may have originated from six disgruntled former Sony employees, based on their past skill sets and discussions these people made in chat rooms. Norse employees identified these people from a list of workers that were eliminated from Sony during a restructuring in May 2014, and noted that some had made very public and angry responses to their firing, and would be in appropriate positions to identify the means to access secure parts of Sony's servers.[96][97][98] After a private briefing lasting three hours, the FBI formally rejected Norse's alternative assessment.[99]

I spend a lot of time thinking about

Changing the world through passion, inspiration and trickery. Travel (33 countries). Structure of reality. Birth and death of the universe (physics background). Ontology. Chopping up human brains (neuroscience background)

And just above that, this curious, curious "list" of "favorite things":

My favorite books, movies, music, and food

Russian. (D) anything but Russian!

THIS Carnival?

He's only "apparently not good at business" to people who don't know jack shit about business.

I tried to book a flight on Trump Air, hoping to have a delicious Trump Steak, wash it down with a clear shot or two of Trump Vodka, maybe get a bottle of Trump Water as a souvenir, on my way to enrolling at Trump University.

I wonder if I can get a Trump Mortgage.

http://gawker.com/a-complete-l...

I never counted Paul Newman as someone who knew jack shit about business but his Newman's Own brand has generated more money in charitable donations than Trump has accumulated - yes, I'm implying he's not a billionaire - while Trump donations are as underwhelming as he is overbearing

http://www.newyorker.com/news/...

Because being a minority in the US has been such a BLAST (pun intended) so far?

http://gawker.com/unarmed-peop...

Funny how it's only the Republicans I've seen telling people how they have to vote: http://gawker.com/5950189/the-...

It's assholes like Siegel who will be requiring employees vote Republican or be fired, not Democrats.

Oh, please. Show me one person who has called for criminal prosecution of climate change deniers.

If you say "No one says X, that's crazy;" it's almost certain you will find someone crazy enough to say X.

Lest you think it's just idiots, here's a quote from a top climate scientist:

CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

don't want to feel troubles of Walnut [mi7.edu] found 4erspective, the for the project. So on, FreeBSD went

D00d, you might want to check those links - goat.cx is now a parked domain. You'll need to find the new home for pictures of Mr. Johnson's world-famous anus.

You forgot to quote (or read, judging from your conclusion) this part:

Some people might be tempted to write off Trump's comments to Bush as empty boasts. They would be utter fools to do so. The New York Times, in fact, has just run an interview with a woman who says she was given the Trump treatment by the reality TV star. This is not an isolated incident: there is ample evidence that Trump has physically harmed women. And he has now admitted on tape that he feels license to mistreat them.

No, nothing in common... I mean, Trump's daughter vacations together with Putin's girlfriend and Trump's campaign manager is deep in with Russian financeers, but no, no connection. http://gawker.com/ivanka-trump...

It was his own fault.

http://gawker.com/5849543/harv...

All it takes is a quick glance at the URL in question to see that.

To see what? That's it's not labeled as being infringing on something? Can Gawker publish http://gawker.com/definitely.n... and point a 'quick glance at the URL' to claim they didn't distribute it (leaving aside the question of, if they did, was it tortious).

Of course, I'm reasonably confident that the torrent in question was not actually infringing. But to conclude that, you'd have to take a quick glance at the content or compare the hash against one you know is Ubuntu or ....

Yeah, because being "posted to Reddit" and "ripped to shreds" there is an obvious sign of credibility.

Are you forgetting the time that Reddit collectively lynched an innocent man in an effort to identify the suspects behind the Boston Marathon bombing, by any chance? Allow me to enlighten you:

https://gawker.com/reddit-apol...

Of course, being a redditor I'm sure you'll simply dismiss the entire post for being a link from Gawker, despite the fact that 70% of the content is direct quotes from Erik Martin, apologizing for the boorish and ignorant behaviour of people like you. Feel free. Redditors are like conspiracy theorists, they'll cherry-pick whatever details fit their own narrative and then circle-jerk around on their own, respective corner of the site.

Do us all a favour and go back there for good. Redditors are the pus-filled herpes sores of the Internet.

Once an inspiring effort at tech news, Slashdot now seems more driven by marketing and reckless government propaganda...

Domestic propaganda was re-legalized three years ago. That's a big part of it. The globalists know that trust in the mainstream media, which they have long controlled, is eroding, especially with the youth. Grassroots is the only way to reach a large number of people now.

Hillary Clinton openly admits that she will take direction from the globalist, secretive Council on Foreign Relations. David Rockefeller, a chairman of the board of the CFR, openly admits that a world government is the goal.

Donald Trump wants ideological tests for immigrants. I believe he started out as an arrogant, vain, blowhard with some pretty OK ideas about national sovereignty, but has now been co-opted by the globalists. A wall was a dumb idea. Ideological tests for immigration is downright scary. Now, that's some globalists, Nazi shit right there. You can bet your ass that advocation of personal liberty and gun ownership will be red flags on any such test, once cornerstones of the American way of life.

And, ugh, Gary Johnson now says he would support and sign the TPP.

I used to be a Christian who believed all the blood-for-blood, supernatural mumbo jumbo. That is the co-opting of the message of Jesus. Look at what Jesus actually said. "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?" Those who speak the truth, today as then, will be martyrs. "[F]ear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

Oblig.: Wake up sheeple

That's this Dr. Dre, right?

http://gawker.com/remember-when-dr-dre-bashed-a-female-journalists-face-1721368450

you can't just post sex tapes

This is all about Peter Theil, who is bankrupting Hogan's case.

That's not why Hogan sued at all, but more importantly Peter Theil is funding the whole thing in retrobution for Gawker outing him as gay around 2008 (while he was funding GOP which has anti-gay policies).

Gawker outed Theil because he was a hypocrite.

Hogan sued about another video.

Here's an explanation:

Hogan filed the claim because he was terrified that one of the other tapes, which memorialized his rant about his daughter dating “f*cking n*gg*rs,” might emerge. As I have come to learn, Hogan himself put it in a text message to his best friend, the radio shock-jock Bubba Clem, days after we published our story: “We know there’s more than one tape out there and a one that has several racist slurs were told. I have a [pay-per-view special] and I am not waiting for anymore surprises.”

you can't just post sex tapes

This is all about Peter Theil, who is bankrupting Hogan's case.

That's not why Hogan sued at all, but more importantly Peter Theil is funding the whole thing in retrobution for Gawker outing him as gay around 2008 (while he was funding GOP which has anti-gay policies).

Gawker outed Theil because he was a hypocrite.

Hogan sued about another video.

Here's an explanation:

Hogan filed the claim because he was terrified that one of the other tapes, which memorialized his rant about his daughter dating “f*cking n*gg*rs,” might emerge. As I have come to learn, Hogan himself put it in a text message to his best friend, the radio shock-jock Bubba Clem, days after we published our story: “We know there’s more than one tape out there and a one that has several racist slurs were told. I have a [pay-per-view special] and I am not waiting for anymore surprises.”

Of course, in reality, small electric aircraft tend to perform better than their ICE counterparts. Power density comes much cheaper (in terms of mass, volume, and money) with electric drive than it does with internal combustion. It's energy density that electrics perform worse in.

Some small electric aircraft have pretty crazy performance specs for surprisingly little money. Of course, if you've seen high performance drones designed for pulling tricks, you wouldn't find this surprising; you could never get that sort of performance out of an internal combustion aircraft.

Energy density is always the achilles heel, and it limits electric aircraft currently to several hundred kilometers range. But, it improves at about 7% a year. People like to joke about all of the announced tech breakthroughs in batteries, as if they never materialize, when the reality is, they simply don't notice when they do, because the market moves by progressive scaleup, not leaps and bounds. Those silicon anodes, for example, that people were talking about here years ago? They started being used in commercial cells a couple years ago. Lithium-sulphur? They'll probably start hitting the market later this year or early next. Etc. You probably won't even notice when li-air start hitting the market - except that your cell phones will gobble even more power and despite that you'll get even longer lifespans with an even smaller battery.

(Note that the cell phone timeline image above was made in 2009, you could put even thinner modern phones at the end of that... and throughout their history, the battery has been one of the biggest portions of the size of the phone)

linky. Says everything just fine.

This is Gawker we are talking about, of course they won't write a sociological dissertation.

Really easy to find the article and to judge the tone for yourself: http://gawker.com/335894/peter...

But I think this paragraph in the beginning, nicely sums it up, this was not so much about Thiel, but why he wouldn't come fully out of the closet:

"Of course he's gay. Why would you mention that?" Here in northern California, where intolerance is the only thing we can't tolerate, even alluding to someone's sexual orientation is suspect. (Even if, like me, you're gay yourself.) Yet as one venture capitalist put it, "The VC industry is headquartered in Menlo Park, not northern California." On Sand Hill Road, like funds like. The clubby ranks of VCs are mostly straight, white and male. They instinctively prefer entrepreneurs who remind them of themselves. At best, it's a wrongheaded sense of caution. At worst, it's prejudice with a handy alibi.

The original story that set off this latest Peter Thiel tantrum is one of the best actual pieces of journalism about Trump that's been in any media outlet, anywhere. Even harsh critics of Gawker singled it out as an excellent story.

Here's what one Pulitzer-winner (Dan Fagin) said about the story:

Anyone who thinks investigative reporting is dead should pay attention as Gawker blows the 'lid' off Hairpiecegate.

David Simon, the former prize-winning journalist and screenwriter of "The Wire" said of the Gawker story:

For real, the finest work Gawker has done. Which is at once both a genuine compliment and an easy straight-line.

He also said that if the US press had done work this good on the question of WMDs and the run-up the Iraq War, that war never would have happened.

You have to admit that the story itself, meticulously sourced and thoroughly researched, is pretty impressive.

http://gawker.com/is-donald-tr...

It draws a very interesting picture of the man, Donald Trump.

And Mr Harder's lawsuit? It's pretty funny reading too, since he tries to assert that his legal demand for retraction and apology is covered by copyright law.

I realize that a lot of the ACs here hate Gawker and their properties because they were harsh on #gamergate and MRAs (who even named their now-defunct gamergate forum, "Kotaku in Action" to prove that they're not mad, they're actually laughing), but I recommend reading the stories for yourself and forming your own opinion.

http://gawker.com/now-peter-th...

The original story that set off this latest Peter Thiel tantrum is one of the best actual pieces of journalism about Trump that's been in any media outlet, anywhere. Even harsh critics of Gawker singled it out as an excellent story.

Here's what one Pulitzer-winner (Dan Fagin) said about the story:

Anyone who thinks investigative reporting is dead should pay attention as Gawker blows the 'lid' off Hairpiecegate.

David Simon, the former prize-winning journalist and screenwriter of "The Wire" said of the Gawker story:

For real, the finest work Gawker has done. Which is at once both a genuine compliment and an easy straight-line.

He also said that if the US press had done work this good on the question of WMDs and the run-up the Iraq War, that war never would have happened.

You have to admit that the story itself, meticulously sourced and thoroughly researched, is pretty impressive.

http://gawker.com/is-donald-tr...

It draws a very interesting picture of the man, Donald Trump.

And Mr Harder's lawsuit? It's pretty funny reading too, since he tries to assert that his legal demand for retraction and apology is covered by copyright law.

I realize that a lot of the ACs here hate Gawker and their properties because they were harsh on #gamergate and MRAs (who even named their now-defunct gamergate forum, "Kotaku in Action" to prove that they're not mad, they're actually laughing), but I recommend reading the stories for yourself and forming your own opinion.

http://gawker.com/now-peter-th...

Perhaps. That's not what the article said, though. It was literally just: "Hey, there's this guy, who does this and that for a living, and he's gay." http://gawker.com/335894/peter... Here's the first paragraph: "By now, you've likely heard how Peter Thiel parlayed a $500,000 investment in Facebook to a stake now worth $750 million. There's been a crush of coverage on his $220 million Founders Fund, which may well change the way entrepreneurs get paid in the Valley. We know about his mansion (he rents it — clever!), his butler, his early-morning jogs. But what no one ever says out loud: Thiel is gay."