I’m weeping inside, I truly am: “Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.” Not least because this entire episode was cheap, tawdry, reflected well on nobody, and was so easily preventable. I mean, I can absolutely understand why people might still argue that free speech could legitimately trump privacy, even under circumstances that were this unappealing. But as Dennis Miller once noted about 2 Live Crew and their lawsuit: they were objectively awful. Couldn’t we have gone to the wall for Layla or Purple Haze?
I’m just devestated by this.
One wretched hive of scum and villainy down…
Was that an atomic pile driver? A leap off of the turnbuckle? A folding chair to the back of the head?
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It was self-inflicted idiocy?
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Then God is just and abides, delivering justice when he deems it best.
Once again problems caused by people obsessed with Can rather than Should.
One could say that Journalism is a Humanities Department’s attempt at “Mad Science,” but without the cool explosions and toys.
Here’s hoping the verdict sticks.
The punitive damages next week should be fun.
Somehow, saying the age of people involved in a sex tape that shouldn’t be published would be 4 in their estimation didn’t help things.
The judgement isn’t a wrestling move, it’s what happens when a wrestling move fails.
So, anyone got a reasonable substitute for i09? I like reading mid season summaries of tv shows I’m never going to watch.
It’s really sad. I found io9 to be interesting a lot of the time, but they kept driving me away with SJW and climate change crap. Their behavior during the last round of Sad Puppies finally got me to go away and stay away; they clearly regard me as less than human.