[AnotherUnixGeek]

Hulk Hogan's Smackdown Hurts Press Freedom

One-sided liberalism rampant in news rooms hurts press freedom a lot more than Nick Denton paying the price for defaming people and intruding on privacy does.

[TTFlyer]

As long as we understand it is “freedom to spread lies, propaganda, and other forms of bulls***.

[Red Badger]

BS........................

[MNDude]

Screw the media. Hulk Hogan is a real American who fights for the right of every man!

[txrefugee]

So the sleaze bags such as Gawker feel threatened. Good.

[canuck_conservative]

So much screaming from Big Media over a lawsuit, yet when Hillary actually threatens to shut down a legitimate news organization (Breitbart) - just because they dare to tell the truth about her - we get crickets.

Misplaced Media priorities 2016

[Calusa]

1. Same sex is the only club where the highest penalty is being declared a member.
2.Sometimes acts have recognizable consequences.
3.Lay down with canines...se #2.

[the_Watchman]

Thiel's amorphous, free-floating right to privacy provides another excuse to exact revenge

I suspect that this writer, or their "news" organization, would not employ that same terminology to the "right to privacy" oddly invoked on behalf of aborting the unborn!

[ozzymandus]

Depends on your definition of “freedom”.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Press freedom? They have lost their right to cry about it from abuse.

[Elsie]

Hulk Hogan's Smackdown Hurts Press Freedom

In what way?

Are not the papers STILL allowed to print the TRUTH about things??

[fruser1]

I bet the folks that think it’s no big deal to have a vid of you having intercourse publicized without your permission are the same folks that are ok w/TSA patdowns and scanners.

[RKBA Democrat]

Screw “press freedom.” You don’t have it. I don’t have it. But the CNNBCBSFOX corporate monolith has it in abundance and wants to keep it. For what? So they can all report the same BS. So that they can be the arbiters of taste, immorality, and politics. Or said another way, so that they can have power.

This so-called “press freedom” that none of us plebes has ever tasted isn’t worth a plug nickel. I hope Mr. Thiel and his ideological allies bankrupt the media.

[Thibodeaux]

what’s good for gawker is good for the old gray whore

[YogicCowboy]

Modern libertarian views are usually libertine, not classically liberal.

True liberty implies social responsibility, as the Founders well understood. Gratuitously destroying the “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” of any citizen - rightist or leftist - is not Constitutionally protected.

Gawker unnecessarily instigated all of this; now they are complaining because they have reaped a measure of what they have sown.