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    RealAmurricanJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:10pm

    I wonder how many of the folks celebrating Gawker’s demise have a history of bemoaning our frivolous litigation culture...

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      phunkshunRealAmurrican
      7/05/16 1:11pm

      Lots, because they’re disingenuous shitbirds.

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      gruffbenjaminRealAmurrican
      7/05/16 1:15pm

      They’re also the same people who rail against anyone who threatens their free speech, while being 100% for silencing Gawker.

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    Gaying Mantis TobogganJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:06pm

    This is obsession bordering into mental illness territory.

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      JohninLAGaying Mantis Toboggan
      7/05/16 1:11pm

      Not that Asperger’s is mental illness territory, but he’s on record in several places praising folks with Asperger’s, as:

      “Autistic people, for instance, have prodigious memories for facts, are often highly intelligent in ways that don’t register on verbal IQ tests, and are capable of focusing for long periods on tasks that take advantage of their natural gift for detecting flaws in visual patterns,” wrote Wired’s Steve Silberman in 2013. “By autistic standards, the ‘normal’ human brain is easily distractible, is obsessively social, and suffers from a deficit of attention to detail.”

      Which makes sense given the obsession (with no regard to blowback) with which he’s pursuing this.

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      The Alvin Greene DreamGaying Mantis Toboggan
      7/05/16 1:13pm

      This is obsession bordering into mental illness territory.

      Considering Thiel is the inspiration for this guy, that hypothesis might not be too far off.

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    phunkshunJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:16pm

    This guy Thiel is a contemptable piece of shit. He’s also demonstrating quite clearly why the monied class needs to have their shit leashed and caged.

    I can’t wait until we start eating these people.

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      KomradKickassphunkshun
      7/05/16 1:18pm

      Like Gawker/Denton are “working class” in all of this? We are just watching two multi-millionaires fight, and the richer one is winning.

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      Commenter7777777KomradKickass
      7/05/16 1:29pm

      At least Gawker is used to publish stories and opinions that aim to take down the millionaire/billionaire class. Hypocritical maybe, but morally defensible.

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    OMG!PONIES!J.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:04pm

    Again, perhaps Thiel’s should consider the fact that Gawker Media is presently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is, therefore, under the protection of an automatic bankruptcy stay.

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      ╰(　´◔　ω　◔ `)╯< Woke and BokeOMG!PONIES!
      7/05/16 1:05pm

      He obviously doesn’t give a fuck.

      Guys like that are dangerous. Outside the reach of the law, but not out of range, if you get my drift.

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      ConallofUlsterOMG!PONIES!
      7/05/16 1:07pm

      The goal now is probably to scare off potential buyers or decrease the value of its sale.

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    IanJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:05pm

    And people still think this shit that Thiel is pulling is ok, because libtards(!!!)...?

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      #WittyStuffIan
      7/05/16 1:10pm

      Yes. If it survives a motion to dismiss, it’s legitimate.

      If a jury awards 140 million, it’s legitimate.

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      Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman EmpireIan
      7/05/16 1:11pm

      Seeing as how the overlap between people who huck the word libtard at someone without irony and those who seem to want to live in a deregulated oligarchical wasteland/camping paradise is so large: yeah, they just want Thiel to keep practicing his freedominess.

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    Vanguard KnightJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:09pm

    So if the common man no longer can count on the court for redress. What is left to him?

    History probably has many lessons on what occurs once common people no longer have confidence in the institutions that purport to protect them....

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      toothpetardVanguard Knight
      7/05/16 1:12pm
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      LooseSasquatchtoothpetard
      7/05/16 1:18pm

      I think OP had something more like this in mind:

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    MisterMcGibbletsJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:14pm

    When all this settles down, can we get Dietrick to do some blogging?

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      PeppermintMisterMcGibblets
      7/05/16 3:04pm

      She spoke at my school in... winter 2015? IIRC the day Gawker wanted to raise $200,000 to buy that Rob Ford crack video was her first day of work. Good first day story.

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    Chris RobertsJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:43pm

    The Hulk Hogan lawsuit wasn’t SLAPP. Gawker fucked up, a jury agreed, tough shit. It doesn’t matter if Thiel helped finance the lawsuit.

    This certainly seems more like SLAPP. I read the Deadspin piece, and I trust everything reported can be substantiated. It’s hard to see Bell winning any kind of lawsuit over that piece. Bell should be required to pay all of Gawker’s legal fees if he files a frivolous lawsuit and loses.

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      dannibalcorpseChris Roberts
      7/05/16 2:08pm

      It’s nice to see someone having a nuanced take on this shit, so +1 to you for that!

      Thiel is really going to start losing whatever support he has if he keeps this up, though. The Hogan case was a win for him, however you feel about it (I still kinda hate the precedent it sets and think the $$ award was outrageous). But if he’s not financing this new run of shit that Harder’s putting out there, I’d think he’s gonna start leaning on him to stop because it is not helping Thiel’s public image to keep being associated with this.

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      HighCharityChris Roberts
      7/05/16 4:22pm

      Yeah but $150mil? That shit is senseless and you know it

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    a seahorseJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:20pm

    im not one to judge a book by its cover but

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      boaboaboatengtengtenga seahorse
      7/05/16 1:59pm

      Okay, is that a ‘shop, a Spitting Image mask, or real life?

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      a seahorseboaboaboatengtengteng
      7/05/16 2:02pm

      Real life!

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    WhatthefoxsaysJ.K. Trotter
    7/05/16 1:13pm

    Here is an example of a sad truth about lawyers and the legal profession: blustering idiots often rise to the top.

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