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After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them (buzzfeed.com)
An anonymous reader quotes BuzzFeed:
In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com, arguing that the billionaire has been unfairly excluded from bidding for the assets of the defunct news website... Whoever ends up buying the site will also buy its archives, which are still up, and will have the right to do with them what they want, including delete them. In the filing, Thiel's lawyers allege that he was prevented from receiving information in regard to a potential bid for Gawker.com by plan administrator William Holden and his counsel, Gregg Galardi, following a Wall Street Journal story in October that said Holden and Galardi had started to market the website to potential buyers...
The Wall Street Journal reported that Holden has been exploring the sale of Gawker.com since July, and that he recently marketed the site's potential legal claims against Thiel as part of its appeal. The marketing of those claims is at the center of Thiel's complaint, in which his lawyers argue that Holden should not be able to conduct a sale of those claims and ask that the court drop a motion that allows for discovery to move forward. Thiel's representatives also said that they contacted those administrating the sale of Gawker.com last month "to express Mr. Thiel's interest in participating in the sale process," but that they had been rebuffed and then ignored.
Thiel's complaint calls him the "most able and logical purchaser."
The Wall Street Journal reported that Holden has been exploring the sale of Gawker.com since July, and that he recently marketed the site's potential legal claims against Thiel as part of its appeal. The marketing of those claims is at the center of Thiel's complaint, in which his lawyers argue that Holden should not be able to conduct a sale of those claims and ask that the court drop a motion that allows for discovery to move forward. Thiel's representatives also said that they contacted those administrating the sale of Gawker.com last month "to express Mr. Thiel's interest in participating in the sale process," but that they had been rebuffed and then ignored.
Thiel's complaint calls him the "most able and logical purchaser."
At it all.
Republicans are pervs.
I seriously doubt Thiel wants to delete the archives proving one of the original fake news agencies made nearly everything up.
Bankrupt Bank of America by tricking them with a nasty trap deal, while leaving them with all the blame, then buy them up.
Except that Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, and his old employee and now bailout manager, overseeing the whole thing, met to discuss what how to handle the thing, so they didn't have to beg and bitch like a little baby, Mr. Thiel!
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The seller can refuse sale to Thiel, There is no law that says he can't be excluded, as much as he would like to try and invent it. If I think a buyer is a complete scumbag, I am well within my rights to not take their offer. I would sell to another party, just to piss them off.
Thiel may be easy to dislike, but he beat Gawker like a rented mule.
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Silly plebe. Free speech is only for the rich and powerful. How dare you use free speech to report their misdeeds.
http://gawker.com/a-judge-told...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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are currently up on gawker.com itself. Don't let Thiel delete them, make copies.
Gawker didn't slander Thiel by outing him -- the news was true. His revenge campaign is petty and should be thwarted by all means available.
Gawker has not done anything to harm you whatsoever therefor you are a non-factor in this discussion.
Gawker isn't only bad journalism, it has always been intentionally controversial and damaging to not only the fools who read Gawker (and their many other blog news sites), but damaging to society.
Under different domain names, just like a certain site beginning in goat... :)
Or is that "pooping up."
This is merely an excellent way to acquire new businesses. If the math is there, and you want it, Bankrupt the business first, then buy it. My free market senses are tingling with the new business model. What is more, it is approved in the Holy Bible - reference Uriah the Hittite, killed by King David, who was already yencing Uriah's wife, knocked her up, and after having Uriah out of the way, married her. So all is good.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
maybe the outings were a good thing -- it showed the world that celebrities, CEOs, engineers, anyone could be gay and successful. If anything, they contributed a lot to acceptance.
You are not wrong here. Indeed, Thiel never accused Gawker of slandering anybody.
WTF? Thiel was openly gay years before Gawker first heard of him... Get your alternative facts closer to reality.
"Revenge porn" is nearly always true as well — the videos and photos are unaltered. Is it Ok to do it? How about "doxing"?
His revenge campaign is complete — he caused the assholes to run into the ground. He just wants to piss at their crash-site. To "thwart" him, you have to offer the Gawker's creditors a deal better than Thiel is offering. Pony up the cash, or shut up.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
You're probably the kind of asshole who thinks inciting riots, slander, libel, and threatening those you disagree with is free speech. As Gawker found out, it isn't.
Remember when you said marrying underage girls was about getting the most for your retirement dollar?
That was weird.
Hold this L.
Now go back to fucking yourself.
Hey creimy-dumpty, is the supposedly honey bee one of the bees from your stupid uncle story?
There you are spamming amazon affiliate links through youtube with yet another fake account, you revenue stream hogging disgusting fat sexist tube of lard, Christopher Dale Reimer!
You can be sure I will be watching this fake account too. I know this is you because you told me you were working on your freepass 11 file server and you are so dumb that you can't even masquerade yourself properly.
Now, I told you I was out of meds last week and you didn't even care to contact me you lazy fucker.
How many times do I have to express the emergency of the situation??????
The python click script you wrote for my pheromone revenue stream web site suddenly stopped to work!!!!!!
You fucking incompetent python script writer!!!
When it works, I get 4000+ clicks a day on my pheromone revenue stream web site but only 5 or 6 without it!!!!
Now, it seems like you dont care and that you have abandoned me you heartless fucking pig!
Bonus:
Here is a story that creimer told me when convincing me what a hard life he had:
The tree was him and the tree knot was his butt hole!
So, his uncle packed his fat ass with lard and with his cock! Not that it makes much of a difference but anyway, there it is!
Signed:
The girl that used to love you and now hates you, burn in hell where you belong you sexist pig!
I keep forgetting that it's OK for progressives to still hate gays as long as they are Republican.
I need a scorecard to keep track of this ideology cause it's getting too complicated for me.
You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.
Butt fuckers, those who take it into butts, and child molesters also don't harm anyone. Don't mind their propaganda in media, it's freedom of expression to molest and to be a slimy pervert.
delete my ~12,000 comments from the last 20 years.
It wouldn't change anything since you keep re-posting the same shit over and over again you dumb fuck.
Nah, you just need to stop pretending you understand what's going on. Like, completely.
It's not "being gay is magical armor" it's "treat gays like human beings for fuck sake (which many republicans still have issues with)" which means they can do bad things and be hated on.
You mistook something earlier in your logic, and it's messed you all up. It's ok, just use that thing in your head and you'll be able to follow things again.
Five bucks is all you can spare, champ. Instead of posting things you regret, why don't you clean up, shape up, and grow up?
Your opinion. My opinion cancels yours out.
What an African shithole the USA has become since Nixon.
Gawker reported on a bunch of his shadier business dealings. Gawker actually did a lot of real journalism and used the tabloid stuff to pay for it. Muck racking is a pretty vital part of a Democracy and we just lost one of the biggest rakes.
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Wait... being gay is a 'misdeed'? Man, and here I thought Peter Thiel did nothing wrong, other than be the wrong sort of gay (right-leaning).
See now what the weaponizing of political correctness by the left for a generation has lead to... using your own weapons against you.
He wants access to information on Gawker he says he needs to make a bid, and claims the administrator is withholding.
He's not entitled to squat, he's just trying to get access to details on the writers and journalists, their salaries, addresses, employee records etc. He's using the sale of Gawker as an excuse to try to obtain those by way of nuisance lawsuit to block the asset sale.
One final piece of Thiel shit.
He really is just a piece of shit that nobody will miss.
It's not "being gay is magical armor" it's "treat gays like human beings for fuck sake (which many republicans still have issues with)" which means they can do bad things and be hated on.
If that was the case, then you wouldn't have the word "faggot" in your comment subject. The second a homosexual does something that doesn't fit into your ethical framework, people like the AC op call him a "faggot" and a "traitor".
You can't use a historically bigoted insult, then just claim you are treating Thiel like a regular human being that has done a bad thing.
You can never know everything, and part of what you do know will always be wrong. Perhaps even the most important part.
We have days where we wish you'd disappear too.
... Buzzfeed reposts?
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Microsoft perfected that process back in the day. They'd make a great offer for a company's technology. Microsoft would agree to buy X units, at a price very profitable to the company, after they made a few improvements or integrations with Microsoft's other software. Of course, the target company wasn't allowed to sell to anyone else during that period. In the fine print Microsoft would get right of first refusal if the company was ever sold.
The company would work to make the improvements and integrations Microsoft asked for, unable to take any other customers during that time. When it came time for Microsoft to accept delivery, they'd sit on it for a month and not reply. Then they'd decline delivery, asking for more changes. When that run-around finally ended they'd eventually have to accept delivery, so then they sit in making the payment. Sometimes the contract might call for a late fee, which doesn't matter when they aren't paying anyway. A year after the contract was signed, without being allowed to sell to any other customers and having not been paid by Microsoft, the company would go under. The owners might well be behind on their mortgage at this point. That's when Microsoft would offer to buy the company for a pittance. They did the same dance over and over again.
If you are talking about marriage, then non married people are do not have the same rights as nominal citizens either. And there are a lot more of them than gay people.
"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.....It requires us to remove the video as well as "the written narrative describing activities occurring during he private sexual encounter, including: (a) all descriptions of visual images and sounds captured on the Sex Tape or any other video of this private sexual encounter, and (b) all direct quotations of words spoken during this private sexual encounter and recorded on the Sex Tape or any other video of this private sexual encounter."
The judge was well outside of the constitution there. Terry Gene Bollea (Hulk Hogan) is not entitled to silence reports of his infidelity with his friends wife. Either she or Hogan himself filmed it, and he has profitted from its release.
Just delete your account, it's free, and we'd all appreciate it. Go away, Chris. No one wants you here, no one takes you seriously, no one every says "I wonder what creimer would do".
You're a joke. You're a living caricature.
Gawker didn't make the revenge porn, they only reported it. If it was even revenge porn, it was filmed by the participants in it, and released by one or other of them, presumably to pump their careers.
Thiel just saw an opportunity to take a professional actor (Hogan) and put him in court to do some acting.
Thiel did that in revenge against Gawker mentioning in passing his (open) homosexuality.
Gawker reported only the truth, nothing but the truth, so help them god.
Billionaire whining that he can't buy the critics he used his wealth to destroy in the first place. One of the more despicable things I've seen in my life. (And there's been a lot of competition for that lately.)
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You're definitely the kind of asshole who doesn't understand the laws of physics. Speech has no physical power to do anything.
Maybe gay person vs faggot is like black person vs. nig_er.
And today while trolling I learned that Slashdot doesn't like racial slurs but gay slurs are just fine.
I agree with the other guy. Gawker was garbage. And I'd bet a dollar that if they had released tapes of Bill Clinton fondling a secretary against her will you would be the first in line to call Gawker evil.
lucm, indeed.
Bullshit! But if you aren't a troll and really believe in the crap you are saying, why are you writing here then?
If that was the case, then you wouldn't have the word "faggot" in your comment subject.
Well, one of the ACs anyway.
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No being gay is not a misdeed. Being gay while funneling millions into anti gay groups however makes you a cunt
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
He can't guarantee that there won't be any more repurcussions from his funding of the Bolea lawsuit against Gawker unless he buys Gawker. So the real question is, how much can the bankruptcy administrators increase the price to fuck Peter Theil one last time?
What an arrogant cocksucker.
it's gone forever, right? /s
Can I paypal you five bucks to fuck off forever?
Because I feel like it. You gotta problem with that?
Don't be a dick. Speech can't do anything. A person has to act, voluntarily, and regardless of you might think (if you are capable of that), each person is responsible for their actions, regardless of their claimed motivation. So basically, fuck you! You're just another blame passer, like all the rest who are too lazy and scared to look into the mirror and see the real cause of all their misfortunes.