fucking RIP Kotaku
we won
And that’s just the compensatory damages. They still have yet to award the punitive damages.
Pretty much, some one told me Gawker is only work 60 mill or so, so they are pretty royally fucked, and with them go all their subsidiaries.
I love how Gawker’s going “FREEDOM OF SPEECH”.
Freedom of Speech has no bearing whatsoever on this case. Freedom of speech is freedom from government interference with what you can say and report about the government. It does not protect you against invasion of privacy or any other form of bad journalism. If you post someone’s sextape online, they have a right to sue your ass and the Constitution will not protect you. You need some damn charismatic lawyers and some creative maneuvering to claim Fair Use and claim it successfully in order to get away with it.