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