2. As with the Gawker case, I think its a matter not so much of ideology as a fussy distaste for outlets that are seen as smart-alecky, disrespectful, rude, mean, obnoxious, cruel etc.
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3. Gawker, Menaker and (to a lesser extent) Splinter are unsympathetic defendants to some people because they were or are seen as mean & obnoxious. And they can be mean and obnoxious. But that should be immaterial to a free speech defense.
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4. One lesson from all this is that the civility fetish is in tension with free speech.
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5. This tweet admirably acknowledges the emotions at work here: distaste for Chapo leading to a feeling that they're getting what's coming to them even if lawsuit is obnoxious:https://twitter.com/KYCol_JR/status/1053659842177589248 …
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When was the “market of speech” working?
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Because a handful of corporations own American media outlets and this is a story they don't want to tell. Rich people will always side with rich people.
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Coal oligarch Bob Murray's frivolous lawsuit against John Oliver & HBO. Watch the episode that p-----d off Murray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8 …
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Odd to see you and that ilk adopt the term "baby killer".
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Totally not odd to see you not understanding “consent”. It is okay for a woman to take the morning after pill because she decided to do that. It is not okay for someone else to surreptitiously mix a morning after pill into her smoothie.
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