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RemusShepherdNick Denton
3/22/16 4:30pm
I expect this entire article to be deleted within the hour, once Gawker’s lawyers get a call through to Mr. Denton.

Anyway, I have severe disagreements about how you run the Gawker media websites — the software is horrible and the ads are getting more and more oppressive (seriously, a 5 minute autoplay video that can’t be scrolled past? Way to make me install an adblocker.) — but in the end I think your heart is in the right place. And the outcome of this court case is a tragedy. So I wish y’all luck with your appeal, and I hope this place sticks around long enough to see Kinja finally become stable and useful.
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  VtDkDudeRemusShepherd
  3/22/16 4:33pm
  That fucking ad drove me off the website a couple of times today. Sometimes I can get past it and other times it locks me. Stupid ad.
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  puncha yo bunsRemusShepherd
  3/22/16 4:33pm
  I’m just here before the 8000 cathartic comments come rolling in, now that people finally got the article they wanted.
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Sid and FinancyNick Denton
3/22/16 4:34pm
Nick is absolutely right and will be vindicated on appeal.

This case is this generation’s Hustler v. Falwell.
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  ImjustacavemanSid and Financy
  3/22/16 4:39pm
  I have no doubt fanboys will queue up to suck dentons dick in an orderly and professional manner.
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  handmadeproteinshakeSid and Financy
  3/22/16 4:40pm
  Nope. You’re wrong he’s wrong. You know that Florida is a consent to record state right? You can’t use video in court that you didn’t get permission to film. Basics legal principles are being overlooked. Sure, NY might let this shit slide, but we’re talking Florida. Sanford is in Florida. Do you think you’re going to get a NY outcome in Florida?
  
  hahahahahahaha
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JohninLANick Denton
3/22/16 4:45pm
The Hogan sex tape was a pointless, hardly newsworthy post. At the same time, Hogan’s stature as a public figure who’d previously discussed the sex tape at length with the media – and is now going on The View tomorrow to discuss it again – undermines the notion that his privacy was invaded. Going on national TV to discuss his privacy is a weird way to rehab an invasion of privacy.

This whole things stinks. On one hand, it was clearly a desperate money grab by Hogan. On the other, Gawker’s history of forcefully (and rightfully) condemning revenge porn reeks of a double standard here. While we don’t know who leaked the tape to Gawker, their intent was clearly to harm his image. Gawker was the willing middle man in posting revenge porn.

Still, that *wrongful death* trials often result in damages of less than a million, this insane Florida jury – and the numerous missteps by the judge overseeing the case in omitting pertinent information – makes me optimistic Gawker will win on appeal.

Gawker deserves to (and I generally like the work you all do), but like the outing of Conde Nast’s gay CFO, one can’t help but wonder why the company is so often staked on superficial, questionable pieces.

More Rob Ford/Manti Te’o exposés, less takedowns of people no one cares about.
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  Something-Clever-Here, PresidentJohninLA
  3/22/16 4:53pm
  Would love it if the Hulk himself leaked the tape.
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  Sia's Oversized WigJohninLA
  3/22/16 4:55pm
  Ugh... he’s going to be on The View?? This site is about to be flooded with trolls....
  
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BrtStlndNick Denton
3/22/16 4:37pm
I’m guessing A.J. Daulerio won’t be getting a Christmas card from Mr. Denton.
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  Masshole JamesBrtStlnd
  3/22/16 4:42pm
  A.J. should be spit at wherever he goes. He’s the reason Gawker lost the case, because he couldn’t keep his asshole-ness in check.
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  Sean BrodyBrtStlnd
  3/22/16 4:44pm
  The plaintiff’s lawyers, with the occasional assist from our witnesses,
  
  Court shade
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Demon!Nick Denton
3/22/16 4:30pm
The decision by a Florida jury to grant $140 million in damages for a story on Gawker.com about a Hulk Hogan sex tape was extraordinary. The number is far larger than even the plaintiff himself had asked for in relief.

Anyone with a shred of understanding knows that at worst this number will be cut down on appeal if not essentially cut out all together.
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  DoobyOneDemon!
  3/22/16 4:34pm
  Probably cut altogether. Florida jury as dumb as Florida man.
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  schpeegDemon!
  3/22/16 4:36pm
  Really? That is a very rare remedy on appeal. Very rare.
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BobbySeriousNick Denton
3/22/16 4:36pm
Hoping you win on appeal, hate to think that wife beating, steroid injecting, racist meathead crybaby would be rewarded for banging his buddies wife.
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  Gawker Muslim ApologistBobbySerious
  3/22/16 4:38pm
  I thought sometimes it’s ok to beat your wife Bobby?
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  Data ChandlerBobbySerious
  3/22/16 4:41pm
  Agreed. The awarded sum is ludicrous, even if I was rooting for him to win, solely out of principle.
  
  What about Gawker’s (and Denton’s) patent hypocrisy, by the way? Not just in this particular case (Hogan Vs Jennifer Lawrence) but many others, like the issue of unpaid interns?
  
  I fuckin’ hate hypocrits, and I can’t help but rejoice when they inevitably get their comeuppance.
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The Once and Future KingNick Denton
3/22/16 4:36pm
Be honest, how badly did you want to strangle AJ?
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  MichaelThe Once and Future King
  3/22/16 4:45pm
  After learning that AJ is broke, has no assets, and is $27,000 in debt (well, now potentially $127,000 in debt), I kinda feel bad for the guy.
  
  Kinda.
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  The Once and Future KingMichael
  3/22/16 4:46pm
  He took my star back in the day. No punishment is sufficient to make me forget!
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Montauk MonsterNick Denton
3/22/16 4:38pm
I still can’t get over that juror’s question to Carmichael.
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  dalilaMontauk Monster
  3/22/16 4:50pm
  Same, what the actual fuck was that?
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  Pepper_AnnMontauk Monster
  3/22/16 5:29pm
  Background please?
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RappingNinjaNick Denton
3/22/16 4:35pm
Hogan did not sue us, as he has claimed, to recover damages from the emotional distress he purportedly experienced upon our revelation in 2012 of a sexual encounter with his best friend’s wife, Heather Cole (then Heather Clem). It turns out this case was never about the sex on the tape Gawker received, but about racist language on another, unpublished tape that threatened Hogan’s reputation and career.

What.

That’s a claim so patently ludicrous that I hope no one genuinely believes it.

C’mon. You already HAVE a defense strategy. Perhaps your lawyers avoided this one in court because it is so dumb on the face of it?

It’s like saying that terrorists attacked Belgium because they were worried that someone in another country entirely might hurt their cause sometime.
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  A SPOOKY GHOST!RappingNinja
  3/22/16 4:41pm
  Don’t be too hard on him, that’s a lot of words for Nick Denton to produce given his severe fetal alcohol syndrome.
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  PlagueRappingNinja
  3/22/16 4:43pm
  Yea, I read that and just mouthed “wow” to myself.
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SpangarangNick Denton
3/22/16 4:36pm
Is there a way I can download my comment history before it all disappears?
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  caekislove-caekingitupSpangarang
  3/22/16 4:38pm
  If Kinja had an API, nobody would read Gawker through gawker.com
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  Sean BrodySpangarang
  3/22/16 4:43pm
  Is there a way I can download my comment history before it all disappears?
  
  I’m kinda banking on mine being expunged.
  
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