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

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.

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Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism

[interkin3tic]

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.

Re: Peter Thiel is evil Sith cunt Republicanism

[interkin3tic]

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.

Imagine

[onyxruby]

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.

Re:Imagine

[PhrostyMcByte]

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.

Re:Imagine

[PopeRatzo]

Gawker exhibited the worst of ethics free reporting

You've never seen Breitbart, have you?

Re:Imagine

[interkin3tic]

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.

Re:Imagine

[HalAtWork]

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.

Re:Imagine

[Anonymous Coward]

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'.

Re:Imagine

[DNS-and-BIND]

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?

Re:Imagine

[goose-incarnated]

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

Re:Imagine

[goose-incarnated]

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?

Yeah, right

[goose-incarnated]

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".

Re:Yeah, right

[pipingguy]

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?

Re:Yeah, right

[Paradise Pete]

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

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

Re:Yeah, right

[goose-incarnated]

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".

Re:Yeah, right

[ediron2]

.... Peter?

Re:Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump...

[MightyMartian]

The Republicans wish they could throw Trump under the bus.

Re: Thiel admitted he didn't hate Trump...

[MightyMartian]

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

No Biggee!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:No Biggee!!

[Mashiki]

"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.

Re:No Biggee!!

[Mashiki]

Your aggressive naivete is showing.

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

Re:Democracy sucks?

[interkin3tic]

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.

Re:Univision owns Gawker -- what is for sale?

[Thelasko]

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