The outcome comes after two weeks of testimony in a first-of-its-kind case where discussions of newsworthiness and decency dominated. Scott Keeler/The Tampa Bay Times via AP, Pool, File
Posted on 03/18/2016 11:16:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Weighing free speech against privacy, a Florida jury has decided to uphold the sanctity of the latter by turning in a $115 million verdict against Gawker over its 2012 posting of a Hulk Hogan sex tape.
Hogan brought the case three years ago after Gawker, a 13-year-old digital news site founded by Nick Denton, an entrepreneur with an allergy to celebrity privacy, published a video the wrestler claimed was secretly recorded. The sex tape was sensational, showing Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea — engaged in sexual intercourse with Heather Cole, the then-wife of his best friend, Tampa-area radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge (real name: Todd Alan Clem). Gawker's posting of the Hogan sex tape was accompanied by an essay from then–editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio about celebrity sex and a vivid play-by-play of the encounter between Hogan and Cole.
In an era when digital networks have reshaped culture, raising tough questions about sharing and prying in society, the jury got to hear two weeks of testimony in a first-of-its-kind sex tape case where discussions of newsworthiness and decency dominated.
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The cult of celebrity is destroying America.
thank goodness there was justice. The professional wrestler who pretends to win or lose made a sex tape with some dude’s wife and got 115 million. I can sleep now.
We are in the wrong line of work. . . ?
I think i’ll go back to law school. . .
Hulks ex is dying. Don’t think she can take a penny of this.
LOL
Ahem..... Stand to attention above.
When I think of how far this would go to help some poor unfortunates, it just makes me furious.
I did a Freerepublic search under Gawker and Hogan and Hulk, and nothing came up. When is the search function going to work correctly?
The thread seems to be gone.
Odd. now it’s back
Lots of us might be tempted to make a sex tape for $115 million...
Agreed.
It never ceases to amaze how far we have fallen.
Lord Almighty, have mercy upon us. We are truly lost in the wilderness.
I wouldn’t worry about it. We can entertain ourselves on both of them.
Spectacular, but real?
Real, augmented, either way works for me...
Dude, I honked with laughter when I saw your screen name :-)
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