$115 million verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker

[mauricio]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/115-million-verdict-in-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-lawsuit-could-wipe-out-gawker/

Good riddance to that shitty network of unethical clickbait glorified blogs. Now if he could kill buzzfeed next...

[mauricio]

Bonus of lulzy pictures.

[mauricio]

Moar

[mauricio]

And moar

[mauricio]

And moar

[Shiranu]

Buzzfeeds YouTube is hilarious, they better go no where.

Also... Who the fuck wants to watch that?

[mauricio]

Buzzfeeds YouTube is hilarious, they better go no where.

Also... Who the fuck wants to watch that?

In the trial they had to argue how was hulk hogan's cock newsworthy. The trial was livestreamed it was hillarious watching hack journos squirm.

[mauricio]

[Hydra009]

Buzzfeeds YouTube is hilarious, they better go no where.

Yeah, I love the videos where people eat snacks from other countries.  Like Americans trying Canadian snacks.  That's great.

But the gawker articles are terrible and can go diaf though.

[GSOgymrat]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/115-million-verdict-in-hulk-hogan-sex-tape-lawsuit-could-wipe-out-gawker/

Good riddance to that shitty network of unethical clickbait glorified blogs. Now if he could kill buzzfeed next...

Mauricio, given your many posts against censorship and for online speech I'm a bit surprised you side against Gawker on this issue. I don't side with Gawker, your post was just unexpected.


http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/19/hulk-hogan-lawsuit-win-takedown-gawker

... But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company. Like the jurors in Florida, the public is now far less likely to side with the media over privacy issues. It’s an empathetic shift, some argue, that has come from having to manage public and private identities on and offline.

“The public has seen the damage that online speech can do, and is getting sick of the media and becoming very pro-privacy,” said Samantha Barbas, a law professor at the University at Buffalo. “The public is becoming disenchanted with freedom of speech and this verdict is a reflection of that.”
 
New laws prohibiting “revenge porn”, or growing calls for “the right to be forgotten” are signals of the same shift, she said.

Last month, US sportscaster Erin Andrews was awarded $55m against Marriott Hotels, after a Tennessee jury found the chain had not protected her from being filmed in the shower by a stalker. Last week, a Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty and now faces five years in prison for dumping a trove of nude celebrity images, some including actor Jennifer Lawrence, in 2014 â€" an event now thought of as a turning point in attitudes toward celebrity privacy.

Throughout the Hogan trial, Denton maintained Hogan’s sexual activities were of legitimate public interest. “We believed the story had value,” Denton said. “That it was true, that it was a story honestly told, and that it was interesting to millions of people.”

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Give it time and yelling FIRE in a crowded movie theater will be protected speech. The problem is we elect very lazy legislators who will take the easy way every time if it means a shitload of campaign cash and even lazier without the cash.

[mauricio]

Mauricio, given your many posts against censorship and for online speech I'm a bit surprised you side against Gawker on this issue. I don't side with Gawker, your post just unexpected.


http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/19/hulk-hogan-lawsuit-win-takedown-gawker

... But Denton’s attempts to apply extreme openness to others could cost the ruin of his company. Like the jurors in Florida, the public is now far less likely to side with the media over privacy issues. It’s an empathetic shift, some argue, that has come from having to manage public and private identities on and offline.

“The public has seen the damage that online speech can do, and is getting sick of the media and becoming very pro-privacy,” said Samantha Barbas, a law professor at the University at Buffalo. “The public is becoming disenchanted with freedom of speech and this verdict is a reflection of that.”
 
New laws prohibiting “revenge porn”, or growing calls for “the right to be forgotten” are signals of the same shift, she said.

Last month, US sportscaster Erin Andrews was awarded $55m against Marriott Hotels, after a Tennessee jury found the chain had not protected her from being filmed in the shower by a stalker. Last week, a Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty and now faces five years in prison for dumping a trove of nude celebrity images, some including actor Jennifer Lawrence, in 2014 â€" an event now thought of as a turning point in attitudes toward celebrity privacy.

Throughout the Hogan trial, Denton maintained Hogan’s sexual activities were of legitimate public interest. “We believed the story had value,” Denton said. “That it was true, that it was a story honestly told, and that it was interesting to millions of people.”

I don't neccesarily agree with the court decision since i have not looked at it deeply, so i do not know what the actual arguments were. But honestly it does not stop me from enjoying the schadenfraude, kind of like that "activist" bahar mustafa that got in legal trouble for tweeting #killallmen and her racist statements about white people. I think hate speech laws are bullshit and defend her right to be a shithead, but god it felt good to see her hoisted up on her own petard. I do think publishing private sextapes is unethical, but of course we could think of various scenarios where the ethics get into a gray area when the tape is of public interest, but you still have to try to minimize harm and breach of privacy. So it definitly is a more nuanced discussion around the ethics of publishing sextapes and the different factors that go into it and that is separate from what the actual laws should be too. But currently im just celebrating the destruction of a network that has contributed to the corruption of the very important profession of journalism.  And having gawker be finally held accountable in some way for the bullshit they have pulled is satisfying.

[GSOgymrat]

I wonder if nude photos of Donald Trump were leaked whether they would be considered of legitimate public interest given he insinuated he was well endowed in a televised national presidential debate.

I certainly hope my musings never become reality.

[Hydra009]

the very important profession of journalism

Now there's a phrase I haven't heard for a long time.  :P

[drunkenshoe]

Mauricio, given your many posts against censorship and for online speech I'm a bit surprised you side against Gawker on this issue. I don't side with Gawker, your post was just unexpected.

That's because of Gawker taking sides with SJWs in GamerGate. It's 'the enemy'. It has nothing to do with Hulk Hogan's sex tape. It's about supporting his MRA team. He just saw the name Gawker. If that wasn't the case, he wouldn't even notice the Hogan case.