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Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by manish_gill on Friday June 10, 2016 @04:59PM (#11879965)
> Libel and slander have no place in a functioning democracy.

You seem to not understand what freedom of speech means. As someone who actually lives in a place where people use libel and slander laws to sue people left and right and get offended, consequence being censorships and a tightening of restrictions on speech, I'd kill to have the kind of freedom Gawker did.

Re:Gawker Files for Bankruptcy, Will Be Put Up for Auction by gwildor on Friday June 10, 2016 @06:01PM (#11880462)
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1357/