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Re:How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (1991) by chimeracoder on Monday May 30, 2016 @08:50PM (#11803990)
No, the issue is that they literally wrote a headline bragging about ignoring a court order to take it down[0].

Whether or not the lawsuit itself was justified (though the jury ultimately did thing so), it's pretty stupid to ignore a court order. It's even more appalling to brag about it the way they did. Quite frankly, they kind of got off easy, since the consequences could have been a lot worse. People literally go to jail for behavior like that. Look at Kim Davis, who was jailed for contempt.

[0] http://gawker.com/a-judge-told-us-to-take-down-our-hulk-hoga...

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Re:How the Supermarket Tabloids Stay Out of Court (1991) by dingo_bat on Monday May 30, 2016 @11:18PM (#11804340)
I don't understand. Why did gawker fight for this? Was there any big ideal behind it or just for the lulz? I can understand if it was the President instead of hulk Hogan, but it's just a private individual in his private premises doing perfectly legal things. Why would you publish this and then fight the judicial system over it?
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