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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by smt88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @01:38PM (#11878214)
> sex tapes don't become newsworthy just because the subject is a celebrity

What if the sex might have been non-consensual (see: Dominique Strauss-Kahn)? What if the sex is between a public official and his employee (see: Bill Clinton)? What if the sex is illegal (see: Eliot Spitzer)?

The fact is that sex can be of interest to the public, which means video of that sex can also be of interest to the public.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by rwz on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:36PM (#11878781)
In all mentioned cases the sex becomes sexual assault, which is a felony. It's very different from adult people consensually enjoying themselves.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by thaumasiotes on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:39PM (#11880699)
Sorry? Engaging a prostitute is sexual assault?

How exactly is it "very different from adult people consensually enjoying themselves"?

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by spriggan3 on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:25PM (#11879231)
> What if the sex might have been non-consensual (see: Dominique Strauss-Kahn)? What if the sex is between a public official and his employee (see: Bill Clinton)? What if the sex is illegal (see: Eliot Spitzer)?

Whataboutism. Hogan had the right to sue, he won, end of story. This isn't the government and a prosecution silencing Gawker, this is an individual against a corporation and he won.period.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by smt88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:41PM (#11879378)
"Whataboutism" is the bedrock of a legal system like ours. It's how you consider the consequences of a law in different edge cases that aren't as clear-cut as the current case.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by will_brown on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:53PM (#11878928)
>What if the sex is illegal (see: Eliot Spitzer)?

There is another type of illegal sex, the kind involving minors. And I don't care how news worthy anyone would deem it to be, even the most hardcore Free Speech absolutist usually goes quite confronted with that conundrum. The public's interest doesn't create protected speech.

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by danielweber on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:39PM (#11878814)
Do let us know when that situation happens.
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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by smt88 on Friday June 10, 2016 @02:47PM (#11878882)
http://gawker.com/5741535/police-find-photographs-of-berlusc...

(An irony that the first site that came up was Gawker)

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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by danielweber on Saturday June 11, 2016 @05:35PM (#11885449)
So where are the photos, like Gawker had on their front page?

All I see is a report that it exists. Neither of the two links in the tweet were to stories showing the photos.

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