Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction

Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by SilasX on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:33PM (#11878155)

I don't sympathize, but it does reek of "jackpot justice". That's a horrible thing to do, but is it so horrible as to warrant an effective "death penalty" for any company that does it once?

And what about all the other people that were the victims of such an invasion of privacy, but didn't get a reward big enough to retire on thirty times over?

The core problem is that the "justice" system is so capricious that only a few victims get made whole, and when they do, it's bizarrely over the top.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by hodgesrm on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:41PM (#11878252)

The legal system fundamentally works like that. It's the "shoot one to encourage the others" approach. Not everyone gets made whole but the sort of behavior exhibited by Gawker will likely be a lot rarer in the future.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by SilasX on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:47PM (#11878328)

The literal death penalty also discourages "les autres", but most people also recognize it as woefully excessive for most crimes (if not all), and would recognize the system as fundamentally broken if that system also failed to punish 99% of murderers at all, as the civil justice system fails to punish 99+% of invasions of privacy.

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