Anyways, seems like a good time to bump this—the story of how Mother Jones got sued by a billionaire political donorhttp://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit …
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En réponse à @sarahjeong
Remember, Mother Jones burned millions of dollars defending themselves in a bogus defamation suit filed by a billionaire Republican donor.
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This wasn't the subject of the suit, but it's worth saying...
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The billionaire was probably most steamed about a secretly recorded video published w/o the subject's consent: the Romney 47% video
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Yeah, what Gawker did is not at all in the moral ballpark, and that's why they actually went to trial and lost.
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The point is that the Thiel strategy is replicable against many publications and the knowledge that it's replicable is a chilling effect
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I have no answer to countering the Thiel strategy btw aside from making it that no one has that much more money than anyone else
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Loser pays would be a good start. You bring a bullshit suit, and lose, you pay the other's legal fees. Better laws for 1/
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sexual harassment and employment discrimination suits with good merits lose in court. A lot.
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En réponse à @sarahjeong
True - and loser pays would make it even harder for those victims to sue. It's a shitty situation.
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