1. Before the Gawker thing completely dies down, I wanted to take note of a little anomaly.
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2. In his memo to staff on Saturday Max Read wrote: "I’m staying the hell off of Twitter. I suggest you all do the same"
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3. Why was Read staying off twitter and suggesting staff do same? Because people were saying mean things about Gawker on twitter.
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4. Read's comments parallel Nick Denton's complaint about "traumatizing" online hatred directed at Gawker writer Jordon Sargent.
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5. Denton isn't being contradictory since he came to conclude that piece outing Conde Nast executive was hurtful & should be taken down.
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6. But Read's position does seem odd -- Gawker has the right to be as nasty as it wants to be to others, but hurt by criticism of Gawker
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7. Gaweker staff position does seem to come down to: we have the right to be mean and you have to respect our feelings. Which is childish.
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@tyelland Right but its easy to get off Twitter. It's not at all possible to de-out yourself after your sex life is plastered on Gawker.
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