![]() ![]() Now, I don ‘t know very much about this case, but I do know something: I don ‘t want to watch a video of Hulk Hogan having sex with anyone. Hogan is suing Gawker for 100 million for publishing a video of him having sex with a friend ‘s wife. Gawker has appealed the ruling, and in an apparent effort to avoid paying Bollea, also has filed for bankruptcy. The irony of Gawker’s career-destroying, far-left authoritarians squealing about fascism and bullying will not be lost on observers. between Hulk Hogan and the news website Gawker. #Gawker loses millions professional#A Florida state court jury awarded Bollea over $140 million in March as a result of Gawker publicizing on its website a sex tape involving the former professional wrestler. But now, the Hulk, a/k/a Terry Bollea, may be more famous for pinning down online media giant Gawker Media LLC (Gawker) in the courtroom with the help of third-party litigation financing from PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel. ![]() Is this the country we had in mind? I sure didn’t.Hulk Hogan Wrestles Gawker With Third-Party Litigation Financing | Practical Law (sc.Default) The name Hulk Hogan used to be synonymous with wrestling in the ring. We? He’s not talking about you and me, who can’t afford to play the game his way. Thiel said as much in his Time’s op-ed: “The press is too important to let its role be undermined by those who would search for clicks at the cost of the profession’s reputation … But they can’t do it if we don’t let them.” STEWART What, did you piss off Peter Thiel? /Y4v1jStcKI According to internal financial documents obtained by Gawker, the answer is a resounding no. ![]() What is too much, or immoral, or just plain mean. Thus Thiel and other one-percenters like him become the unelected arbiters of what is over the line, First Amendment-wise. Therefore, Thiel took it upon himself to protect others from this publishing scourge, like a modern day Robin Hood - oh wait, that doesn’t quite work … how about “Braveheart”? And he has vowed to do it again. “What I experienced would be minor in comparison with the cruelties that could be inflicted by someone willing to exploit the Internet without moral limits.” Being outed by Gawker, “didn’t feel good, but I knew it could have been much worse,” he intoned. This was no public service, as Thiel likes to try to convince us in high-minded commentary in The New York Times. It probably made no dent in Thiel’s pocket. It ended Denton’s career, and threw dozens of journalists out of work. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at the Axel Springer Award ceremony in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday, Dec. One wonders what Hulk Hogan thinks now of being used as Thiel’s tool to end the life of a publication. He chose to plot against Gawker in secret, under cover of another person’s injury and with the intention not to get satisfaction for Hogan or himself but to destroy Gawker outright.Īlso Read: Gawker Sale: What's Next for Founder Nick Denton? Upset about the coverage he received, Thiel chose not to challenge Gawker in the light of day, in a court of law, under the Constitution that governs us all. Ever notice?) Thiel flouted and mocked those principles in his campaign to bring Gawker down. She had completely forgotten about it until last week, when lottery officials showed up at her door just two days before the claim cutoff to tell her she'd won the jackpot: 50 million (US47. (And it’s our First Amendment, as in – the most important one. Stipulated.īut the argument for the First Amendment sits astride larger principles than that. Gawker lived by the literary sword, and many who suffered its barbs or winced at its gleeful mockery of others find it hard to mourn its passing now.Ī lot of what Gawker wrote was not at all worthy. The issue is not whether Gawker deserved to survive, or whether the journalism it practiced was worthy. #Gawker loses millions free#Thus Hulk Hogan, who started it all becomes, a detail in a larger drama that should make all of us anxious who understand that a free and vigorous press is the cornerstone of a free society. Watch out!)Īlso Read: to Go Dark Next Week (I hear he really didn’t like The Advocate’s coverage of his RNC speech. Meanwhile Thiel is just fine, counting his money and for all we know plotting his next media takedown. Others are their own worst enemy shooting themselves in the foot at every turn. And democracy took a worrisome blow from the One Percent. There should be no ambiguity about what happened in the battle royale between Gawker and Peter Thiel. ![]()
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