It appears that Gawker.com has finally bitten the dust. Here is the story from Gawker.com themselves:
After nearly fourteen years of operation, Gawker.com will be shutting down next week. The decision to close Gawker comes days after Univision successfully bid $135 million for Gawker Media’s six other websites, and four months after the Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel revealed his clandestine legal campaign against the company.
Nick Denton, the company’s outgoing CEO, informed current staffers of the site’s fate on Thursday afternoon, just hours before a bankruptcy court in Manhattan will decide whether to approve Univision’s bid for Gawker Media’s other assets. Staffers will soon be assigned to other editorial roles, either at one of the other six sites or elsewhere within Univision. Near-term plans for Gawker.com’s coverage, as well as the site’s archives, have not yet been finalized.
I have a lot I’d like to say about this and I decided to dictate it using speech to text.
This lawsuit and closure of gawker.com ought to be a textbook example of what happens when a news site starts trafficking in gossip and slander and someone decides to fight back.
I have experience with being slandered here on the internet myself. As you all know I am not a neoconservative. But, rather a Paleoconservative or someone who simply believes that war should only be used as a last resort. I am also someone who is mildly concerned with interference with our government, our financial institutions and our media Outlets by those who I refer to as Israeli-firsters. Fox News channel is a perfect example of such.
As a result of this, I have been slandered as an anti-semite and because of my position on blacklivesmatter and because of my issue with media bias, when it when it comes to murders that are committed by African-Americans against whites; as opposed to murders that are committed by whites against blacks and the media bias that surrounds that, I have been labeled a racist bigot.
So, I know a little something about media slander and slander that happens on the internet.
In this case here, someone decided to fight back and yes it took lots and lots of money. But, the person who decided to fight back achieved his goals and that was the shuttering of a so-called news site that trafficked in slander.
I commend Peter Thiel for his efforts to shutter this site. As I once was linked to by them and labelled racist bigot many years ago on my old blog.
Furthermore, I think the bloggers should stand up and take notice of the fact that this man who was slandered by this site decided to stand up and put some of his money on the line to defend himself from these slanderous accusations against him and against his unwanted outing as homosexual.
Because if this happens with gawker.com, who’s to say that someone who gets slandered by a Blog whether in a posting or in the comments section wouldn’t decide to stand up and sue the owner of the blog?
The way I see it, I have grounds for a lawsuit against David Horowitz for his slanderous article on me; by two women who are out to get me, because I dared to stand up against the Israeli-firsters who were causing trouble in New York City.
This is something I would seriously like to do, if I decided to do this I would spare no one. Everyone that wrote anything about me negative on their blogs would be targeted for that lawsuit.
Now am I actually going to go out and do this? The answer to that is basically no; because for one thing to bring that sort of lawsuit in an American Court, you must have lots and lots of money something that I simply do not have and furthermore the justice system in this country runs incredibly slow and the slower it runs, the more money you put out. So, in this case I think will simply allow people to come and view my blog look at my archives and decide for themselves whether I am an anti-Semite or a racist bigot and see that what was written about me was nothing more than sensationalized bull-crap
Essentially, what I am saying is the people who brought these slanderous charges against me in the past are simply not worth spending that sort of money time and effort to bring a lawsuit against them.
Most of the ones who made those accusations against me are really not even in the blogging scene any longer, a lot of them mysteriously disappeared a few years back and I haven’t heard from them or seen them in a long time, not to mention the fact the two women that brought those slanderous accusations against me, are no longer employed by David Horowitz.
I guess slandering some of his friends have consequences.
Related:
- Peter Sterne / Politico: Gawker.com to shut down next week
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