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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I have seen it asserted that they are real if you can touch them.
Fake boobs do not do it for me.
I am not certain it would help "unfortunates" at all.
I have spent over 25 years helping unfortunates and when the money is all spent, they will fall back into poverty and misery. The problem is one of dependency and a feeling of entitlement. They do not want to learn how to work.
As an acquaintance once told me, “a nipple on a rib is sexier than two silicon basketballs stapled to some womans chest”.
I tend to agree.
Yep. Mad Magazine. Good ole “Roger Kaputnik”. Gotta learn to laugh and enjoy the simple things in this life while we can because tomorrow is promised to no one.
I’ll be glad to make a skin flick for $115,000.
Okay. $110,000.
Link?
I think Hulk Hogan is losing his hair......
I tried to buy some sex tape at Home Depot but they just looked at me funny
The thread seems to be gone.
Odd. now it’s back...
The only possible explanation is here:
Where do missing socks go?
http://myria.com/where-do-all-the-missing-socks-go
The solution is here:
How do I find loose gerbils? - Mothering Forums
http://www.mothering.com/forum/347-pets/919050-how-do-i-find-loose-gerbils.html
You’re welcome.
This verdict bids fair to bankrupt all of them and good riddance.
$100,000
LOL!
I wasn’t thinking about the gimedats.
More along the line of our seniors and vets.
Didn’t there used to be a guy on here who went by ‘Big A— Freeper?’ lol
Like my poor dear old grandfather; he worked like a dog all his life, never broke the law, never ‘went on the dole’, paid into Social Security, fought for his country, but I guess he’d be on starvation if we didn’t help him out.
Our seniors help make this country great- and most of them are the poorest of the poor- and our vets are dying for lack of care, yet this sorry sob wins millions for adultery?
(Oh, I get the privacy thing and all, but still, that makes me furious.)
‘tried to buy some sex tape at Home Depot but they just looked at me funny’
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lol Good one.
Where do missing socks go?
http://myria.com/where-do-all-the-missing-socks-go
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lol Funny, Dude.
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