This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Peter Sterne, writing for Politico, on how Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, has filed for bankruptcy: “Gawker Media Group’s resilient brands and people will thrive under new ownership, when the sale closes in the next few weeks,” he wrote. “On this bitter day for me, I am consoled by the fact that my colleagues will soon be freed from this tech billionaire’s vendetta.” Hogan sued Denton, Gawker and Daulerio in 2012, after the news site published a short excerpt of one of Hogan’s sex tapes. Peter Thiel, a billionaire technology venture capitalist who dislikes Gawker, secretly funded Hogan’s lawsuit against the company. Expand - View Original
Gawker is an awful website, that has done vile and disgusting things for years now. About time they got theirs.
I don't always like Gawker, but it's bad that someone like Peter Thiel is able to do something like this.
Not a fan of Gawker but I've always liked the site owned by them known as Kotaku. I hope it survives as I enjoy the writers that work there.
Yeah, I liked Kotaku too, Lifehack is also pretty useful. For a second I misread the name as "Peter Thief" XD
Glad Gawker is fucked (and they lost that lawsuit on merit, not procedure - Theil's money did not affect the former) but the fact it's bankrupted this dude is kinda sad IMO.