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Jury Orders Gawker To Pay $115 Million To Hulk Hogan In Sex Tape Lawsuit (zerohedge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: [Hogan's attorneys told jurors this is the core of the case:] "Gawker took a secretly recorded sex tape and put it on the Internet." And now they are paying for it, dearly. Also notable is that there doesn't seem to be anyone interested in defending them, as even the Twitter community (if it can truly be called that) has come out strongly in favor of the ruling against Gawker. Maybe they should have at least made more friends? They did make $6.5 million in net income in 2014 and their Wikipedia article states that they were last sold in 2009 for $300 million, so while they may not be put out of business, it seems likely they will at least be [changing] hands, and soon, with the jury ruling $55 million for economic injuries and $60 million for emotional distress. I think that's jury-speak for "body slam."
According to Ars Technica, Gawker Media was one of the first successful, large, digital-only news companies. "The stunning sum, which may have punitive damages added to it, is a life-threatening event for the New York-based network of news and gossip sites."
According to Ars Technica, Gawker Media was one of the first successful, large, digital-only news companies. "The stunning sum, which may have punitive damages added to it, is a life-threatening event for the New York-based network of news and gossip sites."
It's time gawker got kicked in the balls for their shitty reporting practices. My only regret is that the hulkster is not allowed to use the piile-driver on the CEO in the court room following the verdict.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
It feels very strange to me that someone could be set for life, catapaulted to wealth far beyond what most individuals might accrue, based on a legal judgement like this.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Gawker is garbage.
They lead the charge telling the most astonishing lies about gamers - and getting away with it. They only people crying over this are Gawker's owners and the insane far left SF hordes who used it in their ideological crusade.
May they rot in hell.
Because it would keep stockholders from acting as the worst sort of absentee owner allowing their evil sociopathic corporate child to run roughshod over everything.
I'm always in favor of seeing celebrity gossip "news" sites in pain. Honestly, who gives a fuck about what time Tom Cruise took a shit last night? If you read celebrity news because it gives you something to gossip to your friends about, then you are a piece of shit. This is (even if it's not gossip) by far the worst form of "journalism" that exists, and people have to have no life at all and/or a huge inferiority complex to even care about it.
But on the other side. There is a conceivable avenue thorough which Hogan can currently expect payment of his legal winnings. But if he is awarded much more, Gawker just files for bankruptcy, it as a cooperation is destroyed and 99% of their worth (which was always imaginary) goes up in smoke, and maybe Hogan gets a million of two when their office chairs are sold in auction and the couple hundred thousands in operating funds are transferred over to him. Gawker does not have $300 million in gold in their basement, they have a name that is worth money, but if their debts get anywhere near their net worth then it is no longer a viable business and is worthless.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I doubt Hogan cares as much about getting all the money as he does about seeing Gawker (and Nick Denton) suffer. Watching Gawker go bankrupt, while still having Denton personally on the hook for millions of dollars, would probably be a completely satisfactory outcome to Hogan.
Gawker and its subsidiary websites (e.g. Jezebel) are festering boils on the backside of the Internet. Denton has helped nurture the culture of "trial by Internet outrage", "guilty until proven innocent", and "due process only applies to people I approve of" that permeates the world today. I can think of no possible way that the world will be worse off by putting every Gawker site out of business, and Nick Denton in the poorhouse.
Jezbel feminist issues...
You mean like Air Conditioning being sexist?
Like the defamation and bullying of that probe scientist for a shirt he wore (which was gifted to him by a female friend), akin to what you can only expect from religious police in some Islamic Theocratic states?
Or do you mean the great issue of imaginary video game characters being modeled too sexually, and how feminists feel threatened by imaginary digital characters?
Or is it the issue of how sexualizing imaginary video game characters inherently leads men into raping women, or hating them and treating them unfairly,
much like playing GTA makes people go out on shooting sprees and on prostitute killing sprees?
Please. The only issue here is that sex-negative feminists aren't being given the mental health care that they need to fix their various sexual psychosis.
I still wonder how the hell feminism managed to revert to from a movement of sexual liberation, into a movement where the most vocal ones are like the most conservative religious anti-sex soccer mommies and "born-again" churches.
Never in my life have i seen a movement decline so fast in reputation and credibility among real world people, and even on the Internet, as Feminism has between 2012 and today. Even BBC has lost its guts to open pro-feminist article comments which had support in 2012 and before, yet over 80% of the comments now are sick and dismissive of it, while there is an even bigger increase in women calling out Feminism on its radical reactionary fundamentalist bullshit and orienting themselves towards a balanced and unbiased Egalitarianism as a symbolic label that avoids any of the flaws and drivel Feminism has adopted.
First, it's a government department paying for the shitty/dishonest behaviour of some prosecuting attorney. Second, after years in prison the wrongfully punished can't afford a good attorney. Normal civil cases don't have these problems. While the government likes to cut a my-'bad'-but-no-fine deal with some corporate legal department, a civil plaintiff wants a measurable result and gets it because juries tend to dislike corporate management.
This is why most countries don't allow punitive fines in civil suits, which keeps the rewards for litigation 'manageable'.