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Also, there's a new article up on Deadspin about some guy named "Mitch WIlliams" , who is in court this week suing the MLB Network. Incidentally, in order to explain why he's in court, the writer included the now-deleted Deadspin articles about Mitch Williams (which were helpfully included in the court filing). http://deadspin.com/why-was-mitch-williams-fired-from-mlb-network-why-is-h-1786498406
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Slanderer posted:Also, there's a new article up on Deadspin about some guy named "Mitch WIlliams" , who is in court this week suing the MLB Network. Incidentally, in order to explain why he's in court, the writer included the now-deleted Deadspin articles about Mitch Williams (which were helpfully included in the court filing). The subtext of this article (which a lot of people in the article's comment threads appear to miss out on) says a lot: 1) "Seriously guys, we deleted those posts purely for accounting reasons and not for editorial reasons" is true 2) "wtf, those articles had legitimate merit and the lawsuits against them are totally frivolous" is true 3) "We will 100% stand behind our writers" is true A lot of commenters seem to think that Deadspin is pulling a fast one here because they probably missed the part about how the interim counsel is reviewing posts before they go up, so they had to have gotten the okay from Univision to post this before doing so.
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Slanderer posted:Lol, they did't explain anything other than "our lawyers said to do this". They couldn't say precisely the criteria the lawyers used for making that call, or even if the lawyers had read the articles. Did you even read the inerview? It had nothing to do with the content of the articles or the merits of the suits against gawker. They represented existing liability that they legally could not acquire. That's all the explanation that was required.
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It sorta makes sense, given this comment from the interview:quote:Keenan: These questions are from Tom Scocca. Are you going to republish the posts? However, it just seems likely that this was allowed because they wrote a new article about a new trial this week, and managed to make those deleted articles relevant again.
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I though they almost came out and said yesterday that they'd be publishing the court documents. Trotter pretty strongly hinted at it, the lawyer said he was being very specific with the question, and then they had one of those off-the-record breaks, where I assume it came up. That was my reading at least yesterday, so I wasn't all that surprised to see it come out today.quote:Keenan: Hypothetically speaking, if the sites affected by the takedowns were to just say, here’s the content of the posts that was deleted due to a technicality of the acquisition terms, would that be like a nuclear bomb, or would that just be finding a way around the acquisition terms? Then they go off the record after a couple more lines.
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uhhhhhhhh lmao http://www.newsweek.com/joe-francis-gawker-media-nick-denton-493681 quote:“It was really a coordinated effort,” Francis says.“It was an all-out assault. And we got him. It was like Osama Bin Laden. I liken this operation to killing Osama bin Laden. (joe francis is full of poo poo btw) oatgan fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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seth rollins needs to take some lessons on cutting a promo from francis. he's got this architect character down
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oatgan posted:uhhhhhhhh lmao best quote quote:“They called my daughters ‘genetically modified,’” he protests. “Number one, genetic modification is illegal. There are no genetically modified humans that I know of. But to, like, attack innocent little babies? It's just horrible.”
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Re: Joe Francis, he's, at bare minimum, almost completely full of poo poo, though I do buy the idea that he wanted and at least tried to "clear the table" of everyone else. But there are tons of red flags in his story: TMZ never ran the tape, but he brought up getting them to take it down to the Newsweek reporter. David Houston is not exactly the most honest man, but he's telling the truth about having no clue who or what Gawker was before the Hogan post. I've listened to the entirety of that FBI sting audio, and even two months after the sex tape post, he somehow extrapolated from Nick Denton being British that Gawker was some kind of attempt at spinning off one of the British tabloids into a U.S.-targeted website. (Hogan thought it was some teenagers' personal gossip blog and not a real business of any kind, for whatever it's worth) Re: The Mitch Williams thing, my understanding is they were going to cover the trial anyway. So you throw in the Gawker part of the case is over and you get the right recipe for Deadspin to be able to do this and Univision to get some good faith. But it's not necessarily a sign that they'll do the same thing for the Meanith Huon and Shiva Ayyadurai posts any time soon.
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A.J. Daulerio is on the latest Longform Podcast: https://longform.org/posts/longform-podcast-213-a-j-daulerio The Wrap has some select quotes: http://www.thewrap.com/ex-gawker-editor-almost-went-into-hiding-after-hulk-hogan-verdict/ Well worth listening to even if you think he's the scum of the earth.
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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/02/gawker-settling-litigation-with-peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-for-undisclosed-amount.htmlquote:Hulk Hogan is getting at least $31 million in cash from Gawker to settle the wrestler's lawsuit against the media company for its publication of a sex tape, according to court documents. http://i.imgur.com/OnCoOwo.webm
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dsriggs posted:http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/02/gawker-settling-litigation-with-peter-thiel-hulk-hogan-for-undisclosed-amount.html Good news.
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SUNDANCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-sundance-documentaries-idUSKBN13P2RN Yes, I'm interviewed in it.
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davidbix posted:SUNDANCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-sundance-documentaries-idUSKBN13P2RN Please https://twitter.com/SoDuTw/status/790990448793886722
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That joke would had been fun and relatable were it not embedded in a tweet. Meet us halfway brother
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davidbix posted:SUNDANCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-sundance-documentaries-idUSKBN13P2RN Haha, awesome.
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Was the Hulk Hogan sex tape called Hulk Hoggin and if not why not?
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Good to see Nick Denton is the scumbag we all knew he was. http://www.wsj.com/articles/gawker-changes-tune-on-decision-to-publish-hulk-hogan-tape-1480709466
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new phone who dis posted:Good to see Nick Denton is the scumbag we all knew he was. Anybody able to post the text? The link wants me to sign up to see it.
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Jerusalem posted:Anybody able to post the text? The link wants me to sign up to see it. Denton is basically pointing at Daulerio and go "he gets full blame. him. him. we don't owe anything"
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Jerusalem posted:Anybody able to post the text? The link wants me to sign up to see it. Google the headline and click to get past the paywall if that doesn't work.
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Thanks  You know I'm starting to suspect that maybe these guys weren't the nicest people in the world.....
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davidbix posted:SUNDANCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-sundance-documentaries-idUSKBN13P2RN So, considering that it was Terry Bollea that won and not Hulk Hogan, is any % of this going straight to Linda?
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davidbix posted:SUNDANCE, MOTHERFUCKERS! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-filmfestival-sundance-documentaries-idUSKBN13P2RN Oh wow. Congratulations.
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new phone who dis posted:Good to see Nick Denton is the scumbag we all knew he was. http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/311555/gawker-throws-aj-daulerio-under-bus-new-court-filing/ quote:In an interview with the Longform Podcast published in September, Daulerio was insistent that, when developing the Hogan piece, it went through enough channels he never felt like it was a danger to Gawker’s future. “I never felt that with that story, especially since it was vetted internally,” he explained. “I mean, there’s a reason it’s a minute and four seconds. I mean, there’s a reason the snippets of sex that are shown are there. There’s a reason we linked back to all of the stories that had already been talking about this tape. And Gawker was fighting off — I mean, Gawker was used to lawsuits.” Also: one of the key WSJ quotes, which I cited in my article, is A.J.'s lawyer saying he thinks this is Gawker trying to get him to accept Hogan's settlement offer. While signing an NDA is probably the biggest of the factors he cited in turning it down, he also talked about it being kind of a betrayal to Gawker. Maybe this is Gawker's way of trying to get him to move past that. Arbite posted:So, considering that it was Terry Bollea that won and not Hulk Hogan, is any % of this going straight to Linda? RacistGuidingLight posted:Oh wow. Congratulations. My interview was shot in Johnny Rodz's office at his non-air conditioned wrestling school (Brian wanted something wrestling-y and fell in love with Gleason's) on probably the hottest day of August. And Brian had to turn off the fans for audio quality reasons. Thankfully I had a steady supply of bottled water and cleverly hidden wet paper towels.
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davidbix posted:My interview was shot in Johnny Rodz's office at his non-air conditioned wrestling school (Brian wanted something wrestling-y and fell in love with Gleason's) on probably the hottest day of August. And Brian had to turn off the fans for audio quality reasons. Thankfully I had a steady supply of bottled water and cleverly hidden wet paper towels. Careful they don't Nixon you! 
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Jerusalem posted:Careful they don't Nixon you!
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davidbix posted:For whatever reason I tend not to sweat a ton and especially not from the brow so I trust Brian's assurances it wasn't noticeable. What are your feelings on Charleston Chew?
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:What are your feelings on Charleston Chew? *reflexively arooos*
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:What are your feelings on Charleston Chew?
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