[QUOTE=Megaman1811;50912259]What even is Gawker anyways?[/QUOTE]
Digital tumor.
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;50912259]What even is Gawker anyways?[/QUOTE]
It's how you get brain cavities.
[QUOTE=Megaman1811;50912259]What even is Gawker anyways?[/QUOTE]
You know the magazine rack at the grocery store checkout lane next to all the gum and candy? It's that, on the internet.
[QUOTE=Wii60;50910065]If people get funded by questionable motives and do good things with it, is it a problem
it's like mormonism, yeah the religion is fucking weird but they arn't hurting anyone and are actively benefiting people so whats the problem[/QUOTE]
Mormons do harm people... Mormon churches have been linked to numerous inner Mormon assassinations and extreme blackmailing cases.
Problem is with cults that people dont talk with people on the out group. But its happened too often not to have a basis in truth.
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Yes, [URL="http://archive.is/VQEV2"]it's a real article[/URL]. For fuck's sake.
I can't wait till Gawker and everything with it goes down in flames.
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Yes, [url=http://archive.is/VQEV2]it's a real article[/url]. For fuck's sake.
I can't wait till Gawker and everything with it goes down in flames.[/QUOTE]
You're going to be waiting for a looooooooong time
that's not how acquisitions happen
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;50915213]You're going to be waiting for a looooooooong time
that's not how acquisitions happen[/QUOTE]
True but, in the meantime... these bait articles are definitely not improving things for anyone.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;50911849]You think former gawker employees will have a hard time finding a job if they put "gawker" on their resumes?[/QUOTE]
Patrick Klepek went from Kotaku to Vice Gaming. It will not be hard for these individuals to find jobs, when the clicks are all that matter.
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Yes, [URL="http://archive.is/VQEV2"]it's a real article[/URL]. For fuck's sake.
I can't wait till Gawker and everything with it goes down in flames.[/QUOTE]
It's called a "joke". Jezebel doesn't review games because they're not a game review site. Read the comments and you might get a sense of the style of facetious humor.
And no, I'm not particularly fond of anything Gawker owns. I just recognize humor for what it is.
[QUOTE=ECrownofFire;50915292]It's called a "joke". Jezebel doesn't review games because they're not a game review site. Read the comments and you might get a sense of the style of facetious humor.
And no, I'm not particularly fond of anything Gawker owns. I just recognize humor for what it is.[/QUOTE]
If it wasn't a joke I really wouldnt be surprised though
[QUOTE=ECrownofFire;50915292]It's called a "joke". Jezebel doesn't review games because they're not a game review site. Read the comments and you might get a sense of the style of facetious humor.
And no, I'm not particularly fond of anything Gawker owns. I just recognize humor for what it is.[/QUOTE]
Yea I figured as much.
gawkers final words
no need to archive the link, its not like they are getting money from it.
[url]http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699[/url]
[QUOTE=Wii60;50932165]gawkers final words
no need to archive the link, its not like they are getting money from it.
[url]http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699[/url][/QUOTE]
[quote]But in dramatic terms, it is a fitting conclusion to this experiment in what happens when you let journalists say what they really think.[/quote]
haha eat a fucking dick
I'm so glad this fuckhead is out of a job.
[QUOTE=Wii60;50932165]gawkers final words
no need to archive the link, its not like they are getting money from it.
[url]http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699[/url][/QUOTE]
Wow, even with the site's dying words he's still saying it was some sort of conspiracy by Peter Thiel (it sorta almost was, but all Thiel did was fund Hulk's case) and that it wasn't a fair trial and all this shit. He's shitting on the seriousness of REAL censorship and REAL restrictions with freedom of the press by calling this a big slap in the face of "fair journalism." Good fucking riddance. I hope Nick Denton spends the rest of his days a sad, disheveled husk of the poor excuse of a human being he was pretending to be.
[QUOTE=Wii60;50932165]gawkers final words
no need to archive the link, its not like they are getting money from it.
[URL]http://gawker.com/how-things-work-1785604699[/URL][/QUOTE]
Thiel seems like a total piece of shit and I'm worried about how much worship he gets, but what complete garbage. They absolutely brought this on themselves and the only people I feel sorry for are the people on the ground floor who's only crime was working for a company that would stop at absolutely nothing to get hits. The only "precedent" this set is that the full force of the law will come down on you if you do something illegal, and being bitter because Bollea found someone with deeper pockets then them is pathetic.
[editline]22nd August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE] And a dark joke, suitable for a Williamsburg bar but inadvisable for a deposition to be viewed by a Florida jury, left the author of the Hogan story vulnerable to being smeared as a pedophile.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't a "dark joke", he received a question and answered it honestly. If that's suitable for a "Williamsburg bar" then I am proud of the Florida jury who presumably, correctly thought it was a horrific statement.
[QUOTE]As our experience has shown, that freedom was illusory. The system is still there. It pushed back. The power structure remains. There are just some new people at the apex, prime among them the techlords flush with monopoly profits. They are as sensitive to criticism as any other ruling class, but with the confidence that they can transform and disrupt anything, from government to the press.[/QUOTE]
"The system" didn't push back, you pushed too hard in your crusade for freedom of information that not even a basic right to privacy would stop you.
I've never read so much sanctimonious bullshit in my life.
I find it really difficult to wish ill on people but I seriously hope Nick Denton doesn't come within 500 yards of anything approaching a journalist job ever again.
My god. All this salt.
It's fucking delicious! Still trying to play that freedom of the press card huh?
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;50932371][media]https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/767826014353362944[/media][/QUOTE]
Says the co-founder of the right-wing mirror image of Gawker.
Though I guess you could say that it takes one to know one.
[URL]http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/02/introducing-the-federalist-a-new-web-magazine-f/198721[/URL]
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:v:[/QUOTE]I guess people who habitually read gossip rags and shitpost on Twitter are the bar for "intelligent" these days.
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;50909961]you do realize that was a joke, right?
[editline]18th August 2016[/editline]
I think Gawkers shit but I still don't like to see journalists silenced by a billionaire with a grudge, Hogan was the only legitimate part of all of this. Gawker fucked up their defense, and Gawker in general is shit, but they're far from the worst thing in the universe.
[url]http://www.wired.com/2016/06/10-stories-exactly-need-gawker/[/url]
I support GG, so Gawker and their bullshit helped exacerbate an issue i'm passionate about, or at least was when that was all fresh, so the fact I'm willing to put my bias aside and judge them more objectively based on the efforts of their more broad writers should say something to some of you at least.
Yeah, Denton, and Daleruio along with some others who are going down hard right now were the problem and are bad people. Not arguing that. Don't even want to.[/QUOTE]
Back in its infancy gawker also showed sex tapes of many other celebrities and women. Fact check me.
I have no sympathy for them.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;50932986][IMG]https://i.gyazo.com/c8672ea3b780201c39ff996f0b33b4ff.png[/IMG]
:v:[/QUOTE]
Shit, now they'll spread in the real world.
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