Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction

Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by chatmasta on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:22PM (#11877998)

We have limits on speech when it comes to private information. Should "free speech" allow gawker to publish a private citizen's sex tape? There is no "in the public interest" argument to apply here.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by olliej on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:35PM (#11878179)

Ues there is - hogan is a public figure who is involved in politics and has repeatedly announced his conservative/be faithful/young-people-have-loose-morals bullshit.

Hence cheating on his wife was news, the public should have been informed, and unlike that fappening this wasnt stolen.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by jdminhbg on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:53PM (#11878369)

I'm not sure why you think reporting that Hogan was cheating is what Gawker was sued for. Plenty of people have done that, with no repercussions.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by littletimmy on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:26PM (#11879728)

Cheating on his wife may have been news (I disagree, but just for the sake of argument let's say that's true). The gratuitous porn video was in every way NOT news.

A news organization should not have the right to publish a sex tape to establish dubious morality. It also should not have the right to publish Hogan taking a straining shit if he appeared previously in a hemorrhoid commercial.

There are standards in civilized society.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by andromeduck on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:53PM (#11878378)

You can do that without releasing the tape

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