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Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker (pagesix.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the bought-by-a-billionaire dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Gawker's assets are now up for sale, and Page Six reports that they could be sold to a Hollywood movie studio which is "seriously interested" in adapting the site's stories into movies or TV shows -- and is also looking into filming the story of Gawker itself. Another interested buyer is described as a "group of hard-core Gawker fans" who are currently performing their own due diligence. But the bankruptcy manager for Gawker "has not ruled out the possibility" of selling the site to Peter Thiel. Also up for sale are "potential legal claims" Gawker may have against Peter Thiel, according to the Wall Street Journal.

68 comments

  1. Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Not that gawker didn't have its flaws but wow this guy is everything wrong with the world

    1. Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      That pretty well covers it.

      He's FAR scummier than Gawker ever dreamed of being.

      And gay men who donate to Rethuglicans and Nazis SHOULD be outed.

      They MUST be outed.

    2. Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by interkin3tic · · Score: 3, Interesting

      No, but the whole "I'm going to influence politics but might flee to New Zealand" really rubs me the wrong way.

      If you're a billionaire wanting to run a libertarian experiment with the united states, well first that's idiotic to do it at a national level given how awful the Kansas experiment is going. But if you choose to do it anyway, you fucking stay for the consequences, at least as much as a billionaire would suffer any real consequences. You don't give yourself and a few friends a lifeboat across the ocean for if things go wrong for the millions of the rest of us.

      Thiel seems to have realized Trump was a mistake after the shocker that the president wasn't socially progressive. Did Thiel apologize for speaking for Trump or donating money? Has Thiel been pushing anyone in the GOP to start challenging Trump? Recent events have proven the only thing worse than billionaire elites directing politics is the horde of voters directing themselves and a president willing to go wherever they lead him.

    3. Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's FAR scummier than Gawker ever dreamed of being.

      How so? I'm sure I don't agree with him politically but he's a smart guy and I respect him for it.

      And gay men who donate to Rethuglicans and Nazis SHOULD be outed.

      Outed as in being gay and republican? Does the left shame people for being gay now? You are completely disgusting aren't you?

    4. Re: Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're so jelly.

    5. Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      You're a fucking monster. You're no better than a Nazi. You try to convince yourself you're different, but you aren't.

    6. Re: Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      I will gladly admit I'm jealous of billionaires with power and the means to escape a country that is going down in flames, yes! It is probably a very nice position to be in!

      That's not WHY I think libertarianism is stupid or WHY I think fleeing the country after fucking it up is cowardly.

  2. Imagine by onyxruby · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just imagine what Gawker can do with ethics and credibility. Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism. The potential of what Gawker could be under the right management is incredible.

    1. Re:Imagine by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism.

      I would have agreed with you a few years ago, but the unabashedly biased reporting being done today makes Gawker seem tame in comparison.

    2. Re:Imagine by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting

      You've never seen Breitbart, have you?

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    3. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have a feeling he's a Bannonbart devotee. Accusing others of their own worst failings is that crowd's thing.

    4. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      Have Breitbart published somebody's sex tape against their will then published an article gloating about how they are going to ignore a judge's ruling to take it down?

    5. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just imagine what Gawker can do with ethics and credibility

      ... uhh, nothing?

    6. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      yOu'vE nEveR sEeN BrEitBaRt, hAvE yOu?

    7. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funnily enough, saying things like that quickly gets you painted as alt-right by journalists.

    8. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What are you feminists going to about the rape culture among your male allies?

    9. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You are one to judge. Russians love their rape culture.

    10. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      To my knowledge, Breitbart has never done anything comparable to hosting a nude video despite requests from the subject, and a judge, to take it down, like Gawker. Or, for that matter, comparable to posting an article saying that white males should lose the right to vote, like the Huffington Post.

      There are far-right news platforms as bad as Gawker et al., but they don't include Breitbart: they're things like the Daily Stormer, which peddle the same sort of hatred as the far left.

    11. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Holy shit! Did you set out to demonstrate the OP's point or are you just so unaware that it happened all on its own?

    12. Re:Imagine by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism.

      Call me evil, but I don't think outing billionaires or celebrity affairs is anywhere near the "worst" reporting.

    13. Re:Imagine by HalAtWork · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Not to mention myopic. Article authors don't look beyond their own nose for opinions or anecdotes. Everyone there is living in a bubble. It's in effect a self centered blog that attracts like and rejects anything incongruous.

      Completely useless at best, but most likely harmful overall.

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    14. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The potential of what Gawker could be under the right management is incredible.

      Why? What special qualities does it possess?

    15. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That totally explains the latest on Hillary's relationship with Russia.

    16. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey now, Gawker at least had the courage to say: 'No, we would NOT publish a sex tape of someone under the age of 3. Probably."
      That's the kind of conviction you won't find in most people.

    17. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yep, Putin forced you to eat her granny cunt on demand. #metoo for russians!

    18. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      i can imagine what they could do

      unfortunately the headline suggests that they'll be owned by a corporate raider and snake oil speculator who spent a lot of money to make a 3rd party lawsuit with little merit into a much larger test case that may now serve as a precedent for other carrier oriented libel lawsuits

      isn't it funny how the core tenet of some peoples' 'libertarianism' is just 'i have the ability to do this (at other peoples' expense), so i should be able to'.

    19. Re:Imagine by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1

      That IS journalism. Did you see how many professional, credible journalists stood up for Gawker and said the lawsuit against them was a chilling effect on freedom of the press?

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      Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
    20. Re:Imagine by goose-incarnated · · Score: 1

      Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting and had the audacity to call it journalism.

      Call me evil, but I don't think outing billionaires or celebrity affairs is anywhere near the "worst" reporting.

      How about ignoring a direct court order?

      Or calling for action against a specific race group?

      When you're calling for actual fucking action against a group of people based on the skin colour, you're nowhere near "not-evil".

      Gawker media on men and women:

      https://imgur.com/gallery/CQ5qgvu

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      I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
    21. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your fake concern is noted.
      If a judge had ordered the take down of a seth rich story you'd be screaming your head off about censorship by the derp state.

    22. Re:Imagine by goose-incarnated · · Score: 1

      When you're calling for actual fucking action against a group of people based on the skin colour, you're nowhere near "not-evil".

      Your fake concern is noted.

      You think concerns about objectively racist action is fake?

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    23. Re:Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Funny how you haven't bothered to document that accusation. Nice pivot, derpbot.

  3. Yeah, right by goose-incarnated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also up for sale are "potential legal claims" Gawker may have against Peter Thiel,

    They've got nothing, and they know it. The difference between "potential legal claims" and "legal claims" is that the former is just a euphemism for "fiction".

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    1. Re:Yeah, right by pipingguy · · Score: 1

      You can sell "potential legal claims" now? How does that work?

      Find someone with money, make a legal claim against them through a lawyer and then hope they settle? WTF?

    2. Re:Yeah, right by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 1

      You can sell "potential legal claims" now? How does that work?

      The patent troll business model is essentially the purchasing of potential legal claims.

    3. Re:Yeah, right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same way you sell anything else, you negotiate how much you want from the buyer and in exchange the buyer gets the rights to what you sell. So, for potential legal claims, they give you money and you give them the right to subrogate an unliquidated debt. They can then collect the money owed just as if they bought any other debt from you.

    4. Re:Yeah, right by goose-incarnated · · Score: 1

      Same way you sell anything else, you negotiate how much you want from the buyer and in exchange the buyer gets the rights to what you sell. So, for potential legal claims, they give you money and you give them the right to subrogate an unliquidated debt. They can then collect the money owed just as if they bought any other debt from you.

      Nope. That's for "legal claims". Not "potential legal claims".

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    5. Re:Yeah, right by ediron2 · · Score: 1

      .... Peter?

  4. Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    which proves he is a racist. Their kind be Nazis. Be Nazis. If you don't hate Trump, you need to be put in prison in order to protect society from your kind. From your kind.

    1. Re:Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      which proves he is a racist. Their kind be Nazis. Be Nazis. If you don't hate Trump, you need to be put in prison in order to protect society from your kind. From your kind.

      You keep telling yourself that.

      Being easily manipulated like that is how you wound up with Hillary as your standard bearer, isn't it?

      Me?

      I find it interesting that after 26 years of her dragging them down, Democrats are now trying to throw Hillary under any bus that rolls by, right after it came to light that not only did Hillary pay for and probably colluded with the Russians for that Trump dossier, but Robert Mueller is also investigating the Podestas - the conduit that was used to pay for the dossier, and would have been who any collusion went through.

      VERY interesting.

      So interesting, in fact, that we now have Donna "I got fired for feeding Hillary debate questions" Brazile doing her best Captain Renault imitation and coming out that she's shocked - SHOCKED - to find proof that Hillary corrupted the DNC against Bernie Sanders and most likely against Joe Biden.

      Sure, Donna, it's now all Hillary's fault....

      Funny how a Clinton crony for literally decades is NOW openly blaming Hillary for corruption.

      I'm guessing the "colluded with Russia" tag is about the be hung on Hillary herself.

      Couldn't happen to a more reprehensible, lying, harpy.

    2. Re:Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by MightyMartian · · Score: 1

      The Republicans wish they could throw Trump under the bus.

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    3. Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So #CrookedHillary ends up in jail after all? Or will there be a shocking plot twist in which she gets a pardon from President Trump?

    4. Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by MightyMartian · · Score: 1

      Well first of all delicate snowflake, she's not going to be charged, and all the pardoning is going to be trump pardoning the likes of manafort

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    5. Re:Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >I'm guessing the "colluded with Russia" tag is about the be hung on Hillary herself.

      Another fake Russian narrative that is just bereft of hard evidence as the Trump collusion and interference with the election.

    6. Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Of course she's going to be charged as well as the Podesta Molesta's What with the exposure of liberal Hollywood rape and pedo culture and purging of the corrupt Clinton machine from the Democrats, the way is paved for another feminist hero to make a run at the Presidency without all the baggage that the Democrats usually bring with them.

    7. Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by MightyMartian · · Score: 0

      Thanks Ivan. How's the weather in st Petersburg?

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    8. Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm pretty confident you two live in the same country (not Russia). I'm glad I don't.

  5. Justice by PopeRatface · · Score: -1

    It may be slow - but there is justice!

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  6. NOBODY FUCKING CARES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    About 7 people ever heard of Gawker when it was running. Move on, FFS.

  7. No Biggee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To my knowledge, Breitbart has never done anything comparable to hosting a nude video despite requests from the subject, and a judge, to take it down,

    Yeah., all they've done is sell nazism. No biggee compared to a 40-second video clip of a guy who had publicly bragged about his sexual escapades.

    1. Re:No Biggee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      On the 29th, in an email titled “steve wants you to read this,” Marlow sent Yiannopoulos a list of edits and notes Bannon had solicited from James Pinkerton, a former Reagan and George H.W. Bush staffer and a contributing editor of the American Conservative. The 59-year-old Pinkerton was put off by a cartoon of Pepe the Frog conducting the Trump Train.
      “I love art,” he wrote inline. “I think [Breitbart News Network] needs a lot more of it, but I don’t get the above. Frogs? Kermit? Am I missing something here?”

      LOL.

    2. Re:No Biggee!! by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      "Nazism" Where a cartoon frog is nazism. This is why you lost, this is why people laugh at progressives. It's why the DNC is now in a civil war between progressives, liberals and socjus and in a fight for it's life.

      Just keep digging.

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    3. Re:No Biggee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Nazism" Where a cartoon frog is nazism.

      The swastika was a spiritual symbol of Hinduism before the nazis got a hold of it.
      Your aggressive naivete is showing.

    4. Re:No Biggee!! by Mashiki · · Score: 1

      Your aggressive naivete is showing.

      It still is. Your ignorance of popular and non-popular culture is astounding.

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      Om, nomnomnom...
    5. Re:No Biggee!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It still is.

      I never said it wasn't. I'm desi, you poser.

  8. Do they want to buy the shit I took this morning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I mean as long as they're in the market

  9. : facebook ads by MohammedMakhlouf · · Score: 0

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  10. Univision owns Gawker -- what is for sale? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Univision bought Gawker during their bankruptcy in 2016. Although they shut down the Gawker site, they continue to operate its other properties. What exactly is being sold?

    1. Re:Univision owns Gawker -- what is for sale? by Thelasko · · Score: 1

      I believe Gawker sold all of it's assets to Univision. Gawker is now just a shell company. It's basically worthless.

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  11. Peter Thiel still gay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So this new Gawker, does it pretend Peter Thiel isn't gay? And Hulk Hogan and his infidelity, does it hide that and pretend it never happened?

    How would such a Gawker be MORE credible since Peter Thiel *is* gay, and Hulk Hogan *did* cheat.

    Would they be allowed to report his donations to Trump? And contrast that with Trumps LGBT ban in the military?

  12. what's first prize? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    OK, he gets Gawker if he loses. What is his prize if he wins?

  13. There already is a documentary, Nobody Speak by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's pretty good too. The creator was already making documentary about the Hulk Hogan sex tape trail, and all this Thiel stuff blew up, with him in the middle. Pretty interesting. Wired review of Nobody Speak.

  14. Marxist delusions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It takes a special kind of delusion to think anarchist libertarian Peter Thiel is somehow a mainline Republican.

  15. LOL Faggot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Somebody shoot this freak. Right between his eyes.

  16. talking about the real news here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With a name like Peter Thiel how long until he's in the news for harassing a woman?

    1. Re:talking about the real news here. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what a clever attack blame a person for his name how about go after his hair color that is also super clever.
      I don't think the left will ever see another Gore Vidal because you always go low.

  17. Democracy sucks? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    horde of voters directing themselves and a president willing to go wherever they lead him

    Yeah, fuck that representative democracy crap!

    Perhaps you prefer a dictatorship? Here's a handy list.

    1. Re:Democracy sucks? by interkin3tic · · Score: 1

      We don't live in a democracy. Most voters voted for someone else. Before you go whining about "that's the rules", sure, no one is disputing that, no one is disputing that Trump is the president.

      But you don't get to pretend it was the "will of the people" that Trump be put into office or I'm disagreeing with "democracy" in disagreeing with the president.

      Moreover, I was arguing for leadership. Half the problem with the right wing today is no one is leading anywhere but more anger at most of the rest of the country.

  18. It's Not human by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Peter Thiel isn't human, look at his eyes no soul at all.