Gawker has closed down

I don't understand. What's bad about the website?

It accesorizes concern, virtue signals, witchhunts, smears, hoodwinks people into agreeing with very irrational views, capitalises on the unfounded fears of young people who have bought into the lies and manipulations of the professionally offended movement, and it's all just clickbait. They create hate against normal people, large demographics, and brainwash kids with anti-intellectual "feels before reals" nonsense all in the name of ad-revenue.

Well it's freedom of speech but if they chose to close down by themselves then that's fine. I just hope no one was forcing them to do so.

Hopefully some day buzzfeed will be next!

Well it's freedom of speech but if they chose to close down by themselves then that's fine. I just hope no one was forcing them to do so.

but when you go around exposing people's personal lives as they did in that and other cases

It accesorizes concern, virtue signals, witchhunts, smears, hoodwinks people into agreeing with very irrational views, capitalises on the unfounded fears of young people who have bought into the lies and manipulations of the professionally offended movement, and it's all just clickbait. They create hate against normal people, large demographics, and brainwash kids with anti-intellectual "feels before reals" nonsense all in the name of ad-revenue.

What's wrong with buzzfeed? They have their first amendment rights.

Were they that much worse than any of the others?

I don't really know who the others are or how relatively bad they were. I just know I disliked these guys.

Excellent news

Indeed. But on the other hand. If you are backrolled by someone with huge amounts of cash you can basically silence who you like. This is the capitalist version of state censorship.

Well, perhaps, but I don't see how that's relevant. Gawker was sued for taking Hogan's private video and broadcasting it. That's a huge invasion of privacy, it has nothing to do with censorship.