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[Blastoise]

Gawker gon die

 

[Kinyou]

Someone make the gaming side thread.

Is he going to buy himself back into the WWE games?

 

[Lashley]

Oh, brother!

Shame he turned out to be a racist, but this is big news. End of Kotaku?

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

Gawker gave us the Rob Ford scandal, but they also scared away the guy who was going to sell the tape.

 

[BronsonLee]

https://twitter.com/Gawker/status/327537977922318337

We're at fucking PEAK Internet right now

 

[B-Dubs]

Racist gets his payday, website(s) with questionable practices gets reamed.

Who wins.

Saying Gawker had questionable practices is seriously underselling them, they had no integrity whatsoever. We're all better off they're gone.

Gawker gave us the Rob Ford scandal, but they also scared away the guy who was going to sell the tape.

They also ruined a random guy's life for no goddamn reason.

 

[TetraxShards]

When it comes crashing down, and it hurts inside....

 

[Cagey]

lol, I like the "formal" headband he wore to court.

It's great at funerals too.

Hulkster called his shot.

 

[CalamityPixel]

Wiki keeps on being edited, this is current

Completely destroyed

 

[FallingEdge]

Is he going to buy himself back into the WWE games?

Hogan wins lawsuit, Kotaku future in trouble.

 

[Edag88]

 

[Basileus777]

Appeal is coming.

 

[BlazinAm]

Racist gets his payday, website(s) with questionable practices gets reamed.

Who wins.

The state of Florida.

 

[Ikuu]

Reading Gawker/ Ex- Gawker editors getting super angry about this on Twitter is great. This guy doesn't seem to understand the difference between settlements and verdicts, thinks this shows why Florida reelected Rick Scott twice, and that the 4 year old comment was just a difference in taste.

Wonder how he felt about Erin Andrews.

 

[Jarmel]

So anybody familiar with Gawker financials? The question now becomes how much they're worth and how much they can liquidate to reach that $50 million.

 

[LiK]

that Wikipedia page is gonna get locked down soon

 

[Agent Gibbs]

Will Gawker run video of themselves getting fucked by Hogan?

/dead

 

[oatmeal]

Is there a video of this? I want to see a sex tape of Hulk fucking Gawker.

 

[Cipherr]

Hogan is a shithead, but Fuck Gawker. Useless POS tabloid trash can rot and will not be missed.

 

[Deleted member 325805]

The biggest of big legs.

 

[Kama_1082]

If hogan won't bring him down, the guy who was outed by Gawker will.

 

[Dio]

Appeal is coming.

Note: they need to get 50 million to even match that for the appeal.

Note #2: nick denton was confident that claiming his grandparents were holocaust survivors would win him the case - that was seriously his opening statement.

 

[Sub_Level]

Jabronies.

 

[Dalek]

God damn Hulk. Good for you, brother.

 

[Hard]

 

[ClosingADoor]

Well, that's it for Gawker I guess. Wonder who will pick up Kotaku, hope they don't suffer from this too much.

 

[Kama_1082]

Appeal is coming.

Do they even have $50M to put up as bond?

 

[BFIB]

Did Gawker not realize Hogan never jobs?

 

[ApharmdX]

Welp, that's Gawker done.

Good on Hogan.

Is it? Is it good on Hogan? I kind of feel like we all lost here.

 

[FelixOrion]

Reading Gawker/ Ex- Gawker editors getting super angry about this on Twitter is great. This guy doesn't seem to understand the difference between settlements and verdicts, thinks this shows why Florida reelected Rick Scott twice, and that the 4 year old comment was just a difference in taste.

Weinstein is scum, it's pretty well known. Most of the higher ups at Gawker are wastes of space.

 

[PumpkinSpice]

Kotaku and any other profitable sites would get sold off to pay for this. They wouldn't just close everything.

 

[BronsonLee]

Is it? Is it good on Hogan? I kind of feel like we all lost here.

I dunno man, I feel grossly entertained after seeing all of this play out

 

[Brannon]

Using the power of Hulkamania, quickly leg drop their assets to the tune of about half their net worth. This kills the Gawker.

 

[rrc1594]

Is this a Work?

 

[VeryGooster]

ouch :/ https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

 

[Onemic]

Im sorta outta the loop here because all I know about this story is that Hulk is a racist piece of shit. What exactly did Gawker do wrong?

 

[Sorcerer Supreme]

good

fuck gawker

 

[Zaventem]

It's not over!

 

[VenomBoss]

lol holy shit.

 

[Heel]

Appeal is coming.

Their "most important witness" either lied to the feds or during a sworn deposition. Sealed case documents:

Good luck with that.

 

[slightconfuse]

Im sorta outta the loop here because all I know about this story is that Hulk is a racist piece of shit. What exactly did Gawker do wrong?

https://twitter.com/gawker/status/327537977922318337

 

[Foffy]

ouch :/ https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

Lo-Ping killed him.

 

[BlazinAm]

ouch :/ https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/710970382606540800

The responses are really something else.

Lo-Ping killed him.

Keep going.

 

[Jarmel]

Kotaku and any other profitable sites would get sold off to pay for this. They wouldn't just close everything.

How much are each of those sites worth though? How many sites do you have to sell to hit that magic $50 million mark and can you get them back if you win appeal?

 

[elrechazado]

Everyone saying they have to put up 50 million - isn't this like a criminal bond where you can pay ten percent to get a bonding company to put it up for you?

 

[dity]

Racist gets his payday, website(s) with questionable practices gets reamed.

Who wins.

Internet drama.

 

[Circle Jerk]

Another way to look at it is that Hulk got paid $115 million for saying the n-word on film

Cool, so you're pro revenge porn then? I mean if you're going to ignore that this tape was stolen, posted without either parties permission, told to taken down by a judge, and then not, it kinda seems like you're pro revenge porn, or at least as long as the person is shitty.

 

[CenturionKei]

Good. Dont care if Hogan was being a racist asshole. Gawkers dead in the water. GAWKERS DEAD. A cancerous part of the internet is about to face its just deserts!

 

[CalamityPixel]

It's not over!

Holy shit, this is insane. It's already over 100 freaking million

 

[Kinyou]

Im sorta outta the loop here because all I know about this story is that Hulk is a racist piece of shit. What exactly did Gawker do wrong?

Released a sextape of Hulk Hogan on their site and refused to take it down.

Another way to look at it is that Hulk got paid $115 million for saying the n-word on film

Wasn't this case just about the sex tape itself and not the racist rant?